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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 12h

As before.
Because in today’s Japan, the shift to the right has gone so far that even the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party can be seen as moderate center-left.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sick and tired of how utterly incompetent Japan’s so-called liberal and center-left parties are.
I, for one, wish for the emergence of a truly independent left-wing party.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 12h

Reuters didn’t mince words and called them “far-left.”
Perhaps the growing distrust toward so-called “center-left” parties is part of a global trend.
Japan is no exception — the weakness of its liberal parties has, in a way, only helped the shift to the right.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 12h

Independent left-wing politician Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide
www.reuters.com/world/left-w...

Independent left-wing politician Connolly wins Irish presidency in landslide

Catherine Connolly, a veteran lawmaker on the far left of the Irish political spectrum, was elected president by a landslide margin on Saturday in a stinging rebuke to the recently re-elected centre-right coalition.

www.reuters.com

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 1d

【Correction】BnW prints are 20 yen, color prints are 60 yen.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 1d

I had two of my photos printed as postcards. Twenty yen each at a convenience store — cheap enough, and they look it. The layout won’t let you tweak much, and the crop takes what it wants. Still, there’s something quietly moving about seeing a photo turn real.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 1d

#AnalogIsResistance

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I should pick up a pen and write someone a letter.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 1d

I had two of my photos printed as postcards. Twenty yen each at a convenience store — cheap enough, and they look it. The layout won’t let you tweak much, and the crop takes what it wants. Still, there’s something quietly moving about seeing a photo turn real.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 2d

"36" means "1936." It began then.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 2d

2025.tiff-jp.net/ja/lineup/fi...

【パレスチナ36】｜第38回東京国際映画祭（2025）

1936年、英国委任統治時代のパレスチナを舞台に、パレスチナのアラブ人たちがユダヤ人入植者たちと、英国植民地支配への反発から起こした民族主義的な反乱を描いた作品。田舎の故郷での伝統的な暮らしを愛しながらも、エルサレムの政治的・社会的緊張に巻き込まれてゆく若者ユスフを中心に、この時代の出来事がパレスチナの民族的アイデンティティにどのような影響を与えてきたかが、スケールの大きな映像の中に描かれる。その...

2025.tiff-jp.net

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 2d

PALESTINE 36 | Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas 31 October
youtu.be/wWtwnae_5UI?...

PALESTINE 36 | Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas 31 October

YouTube video by Curzon

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 2d

2025.tiff-jp.net/ja/lineup/fi...

【パレスチナ36】｜第38回東京国際映画祭（2025）

1936年、英国委任統治時代のパレスチナを舞台に、パレスチナのアラブ人たちがユダヤ人入植者たちと、英国植民地支配への反発から起こした民族主義的な反乱を描いた作品。田舎の故郷での伝統的な暮らしを愛しながらも、エルサレムの政治的・社会的緊張に巻き込まれてゆく若者ユスフを中心に、この時代の出来事がパレスチナの民族的アイデンティティにどのような影響を与えてきたかが、スケールの大きな映像の中に描かれる。その...

2025.tiff-jp.net

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 2d

🎬 Palestine 36
luckynumber.fr/palestine36/

Palestine 36 by Annemarie Jacir - Lucky Number

1936. As villages across Mandate Palestine rise against British rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest.

luckynumber.fr

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 4d

though, thanks to your resistance, I expect it won’t last much longer. For now, however, we’ll just have to keep watching, whether we like it or not.

damn.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 4d

Dear (the decent kind of) American citizens,
Thanks to the recent change of prime minister here in Japan, I’ve come to understand — literally, painfully — the torment of having to endure that orange-colored something staring at you from thumbnails, day in and day out, for years…

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 4d

www.thelightphone.com/lightiii?fbc...

The Light Phone

Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.

www.thelightphone.com

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 4d

The irony is that it’s precisely what nudges me to disconnect from the internet!

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 4d

No matter which media or social network I open, I’m greeted with thumbnails of Japan’s new far-right prime minister, whose exalted visage makes one almost involuntarily wonder if it could physically suck blood—it puts me in a dark mood.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 4d

I’m seriously thinking of switching to the Light Phone.
All those things I used to look at on my smartphone—I can just check them on my computer’s browser instead. I just hope they add Japanese keyboard support.
And yet, here I am posting this via my smartphone—oh, the irony!

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 5d

news.ricoh-imaging.co.jp/rim_info/202...

ハイエンドコンパクトデジタルカメラ「RICOH GR IV Monochrome」の開発について｜RICOH IMAGING

RICOH IMAGING デジタル一眼カメラに関連した、新製品やイベントの発表、サービスやサポート情報をご案内いたします。

news.ricoh-imaging.co.jp

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 5d

A monochrome-only GR… that’s something.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 5d

Damn… I hate how much I want it.
dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20...

RICOH GR IVの“モノクロ専用機”が開発発表　ハイライト拡散の“HDF”モデルも

リコーイメージング株式会社は10月21日（火）、レンズ一体型カメラ「RICOH GR IV」の派生モデル2機種を開発中であると発表した。“Monochrome”と“HDF”の2モデルだ。

dc.watch.impress.co.jp

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 7d

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a double standard, but there are times when the way its consistency is justified leaves me feeling rather unsettled.

Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 7d

Yet I can’t help but wonder: in the United States, is “anti-Zionism” still something close to a taboo?
I understand it as something entirely different from anti-Semitism.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 7d

Among the artists, actors, and other public figures expressing solidarity with the “No Kings” protests, there are some who have never once mentioned Palestine.
To me, resisting or protesting what’s happening there is part of the same continuum as anti-fascism — even as the movement against Trump.

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Takehiko Ishii @tkhkisi.bsky.social · 7d

What is eating away at Tokyo, as in the rest of the world, is nothing but neoliberalism and the flood-like ideology of endless growth.

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