Tom Baker

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

RIP Gene Shalit.
I used to enjoy listening to his movie reviews on the radio as a kid.

Gene Shalit, Film Critic Bristling With Hair and Puns, Dies at 100 https://t.co/STuwWMDuJV via @NYTimes

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

I just noticed that @MerriamWebster used a poem by Michael Dylan Welch, who spoke at @JapanWritersCon a few years back, to illustrate the concept of a “senryu.” They made a good choice:

his favourite deli—
the bald man finds a hair
in his soup

https://t.co/zO14jtX5CM

[The Japan News @The_Japan_News]

Anti-Bear Protective Wear Launched by Kyoto Manufacturer https://t.co/oAA8oItBNa

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

I liked the novel, as you’ll see from my review, and I’m interested in seeing what the adaptation will be like.

[The Japan News @The_Japan_News]

With "Remarkably Bright Creatures" debuting on Netflix this Friday, take look back at our review of the novel it is based on, about the emotional connections among several lonely people and one big octopus.
https://t.co/IXX5SlZtZW

[The Japan News @The_Japan_News]

Irish rain and Madagascar sunshine contribute to the flavors of top-notch beef and vanilla. Those are just two of the 80 countries that brought their tastiest foods to the Japanese market at the recent Foodex trade show in Tokyo.
https://t.co/VttTi5fcbV

[The Japan News @The_Japan_News]

We have created a page on our website that provides the latest information of cherry blossoms nationwide. Articles attached to the map are about cherry blossoms in various places that you can use to find the best hanami viewing spots.
https://t.co/lLuCKT5p04

[JapanWritersCon @JapanWritersCon]

Submissions are now being accepted for presentations at the 20th Japan Writers Conference, to be held at Lakeland University Japan in central Tokyo on Nov. 14-15.
Please read the guidelines and submit your proposals via https://t.co/Iv3Fdgrx4h.

[アイルランド大使館 Ireland in Japan @IrishEmbJapan]

【#アイルランドに関する書籍のご紹介】
『A History of the GAA in 100 Objects』

@officialgaa は、アイルランド人の意識に深く根づき、スポーツの枠にとらわれず、社会においても大きな影響力を持っています。本書を手に取り、100のものでGAAの歴史を探求しませんか？
🔗: https://t.co/0TIxmJmsnC

[JapanWritersCon @JapanWritersCon]

A new Tokyo-based English-language literary magazine called Mitske @Mitskemag is set to launch in November this year.
https://t.co/JWu1bQIr4x

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

Wordle does not recognize kaiju as a word. But it’s fine with haiku, otaku, bento, gyoza, kombu, mirin, mochi, natto, nashi, panko, ramen, umami, sushi, ronin, kendo, torii, Akita, emoji, futon, kudzu, ninja, ponzu and dashi.

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[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

Ulysses Grant and Barbara Rose Johns lived in different centuries, but they both got the better of Robert E. Lee. https://t.co/BVD2THWamE

[Anthony Fensom 🇺🇦🇦🇺🇯🇵 @a_d_fensom]

Welcome Year of the Horse as we farewell the snake with a safety message 😀

#Japan #railway cc @TokyoTomBaker

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

Today and tomorrow are your last chances to see this excellent show at the Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures.
https://t.co/kpBPmW6Ebx

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

In 1864, Gen. Ulysses Grant “indignantly refuse[d]…a plan for capturing Jeff Davis at his home in Richmond and bringing him inside the Union lines a prisoner bound and gagged, saying, 'I cannot approve of it. We are not kidnappers.'”
(from Julia Grant’s memoirs)

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

And who’s up next?
It’s the Horse, of course.

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

In 2021, the Year of the Ox, this poor creature has been getting its nose caught in a closing door on a subway safety poster all year long. Last year it was a rat, and before that a boar. Watch out soon when it happens to a tiger!

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

After a year on the subway safety poster job, the Snake is still in relatively good shape. By tomorrow, he’ll be back home in his den, licking his wounds with his forked tongue. お疲れ様！

[The Japan News @The_Japan_News]

Museum shows how Yokohama exported beauty in East-West ‘Rendezvous’ over 100 years ago
https://t.co/4MgbOGj7o2

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

My latest @The_Japan_News article is about a fascinating museum exhibition of artistic and commercial articles created when East met West in Yokohama over a century ago.

[The Japan News @The_Japan_News]

A phoenix spreads its wings above branches of cherry blossoms atop an ornately carved wooden cabinet made in the period from around 1890 to 1920.
https://t.co/4MgbOGjFdA

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

I was on the fence over whether to say "President Grant" or "General Grant." According to an aside about George Washington in this @RealMissManners column on (im)proper tablecloth use, I should have come down on the other side. https://t.co/WxCrX7sOc0

[Tom Baker @TokyoTomBaker]

President Grant would be pleased at this news.
https://t.co/zWBlWhVxxx