Above, a GMK Godzilla filming suit on display at the Shibuya HMV store in 2001. Photo by Armand Vaquer. Over at The Japan Times , the...

Above, the Tokyo Skytree. Photo by Armand Vaquer. The Tokyo Skytree is celebrating its second anniversary today and the operator is n...

A familiar name, who raised the bar in Japanese special effects in the 1990s, is helming a new live-action movie, Attack On Titan . It ...

A number of yesterday's blog posts were picked up this past evening by The Japan Daily . Another jackpot! Here they are: ...

Several people wanting to take advantage of the pre-vacation season sale of The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan (at a 20% discou...

One of the nice things about G-fans, they will send messages and photos while they are experiencing Japan (some for the first time), furthe...

Above, nighttime shoppers in Ginza. Photo by Armand Vaquer. People from around the world are discovering what many of us already knew:...

The Japan Daily has picked up more blog posts from today. The first is on the interview with A. A. Kidd at The Freehold on Godzil...

Above, Miki Hayashi with The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan . Photo by Armand Vaquer. While the print edition of The Monster M...

Above, Shibuya Crossing. Photo by Armand Vaquer. It was featured in  Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-out Attac...

Above, a Godzilla ad with the red smoke flares. Poster by Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. You may have wondered what was the purpose ...

Above, your truly in Tokyo. The Freehold has posted their interview with me on Godzilla and The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japa...

Above, Godzilla and The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan were   interview topics. Today is starting off pretty good. I just com...

The Japan Daily picked up the blog post from yesterday on and The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan . They've been excellen...

Above, the Van Nuys Flyaway bus gets me to LAX cheaply and hassle-free. Photo by Armand Vaquer. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX...

Back in 1984, I was a member of the Ronald Reagan California Delegation to the Republican National Convention. The convention was hel...

Above, a giant Godzilla poster adorns a Warner Bros. office building. Photo by Armand Vaquer. Kyodo News , one of Japan's premier...

Above, Yuu Asakura with The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan . Photo by Armand Vaquer. It appears that going to see Godzilla to...

The Japanese media are beginning to take notice of the box office success of Godzilla over the weekend. The Mainichi Shimbun posted:...

Former Toho Pictures President and Godzilla Executive Producer Shogo Tomiyama posted this on Facebook: While I can't quite envis...

Above, Akira Takarada on the south curb on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. Photo by Tim Bean. Actor Akira Takarada was recently in Dallas,...

Many movies (if not most of them) contain messages that the writer or studio bigwigs wish to convey to the moviegoer. According to an...

Above, the Bunkamura in 2001. Photo by Armand Vaquer. 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of Shibuya, Tokyo's Bunkamura cultural compl...

Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. accomplished something that Sony/TriStar couldn't sixteen years ago. They created a Godzilla mo...

The King has completely stomped the competition at the box office this weekend. Entertainment Weekly has reported the following: T...

Above, John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. Genghis Khan (in John Wayne's voice): "Men, tonight we ride! We're...

The Japan Daily picked up two of my blog posts from yesterday The first one is on "fun facts" of 2013's foreign tourism re...

Above, Godzilla in 1954 was a by-product of the H-bomb. The new Godzilla is a by-product of what? Steve Ryfle ( Japan's Favorite M...