Dispatches from Post-growth Japan

The Line was the zenith of our age of insanity

Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!

Nov 22 • Sam Holden

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A roof in the rain

Five years of Labyrinth, Substack subscriptions, and Onomichi cat calendars

Nov 3 • Sam Holden

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October 2025

Osaka Airbnb-ification

Post-growth gentrification in the expo city

Oct 22 • Sam Holden

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September 2025

Is the best tech for learning Japanese 20 years old?

I miss the cognitive friction of my old electronic dictionary

Sep 2 • Sam Holden

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August 2025

Is a city alive?

From the rights of nature to the right to the city

Aug 22 • Sam Holden

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June 2025

Why Tokyo bikes more than NYC

It’s not more bike lanes. It’s the absence of cars

Jun 19 • Sam Holden

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Labyrinth House pre-opening

Our new urban commons opens its doors in Onomichi

Jun 5 • Sam Holden

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April 2025

Transit and techno-futurism

When new tech arrives, what other futures does America lose in its embrace?

Apr 21 • Sam Holden

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March 2025

A little house in the ruins of Tokyo

Remembering an old visitor on the 80th anniversary of the firebombing

Mar 10 • Sam Holden

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January 2025

Labyrinth progress, Sento exhibition, Tokyo podcast

Some short updates after a busy start to the year

Jan 31 • Sam Holden

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December 2024

Inari-yu wins top UNESCO prize in Asia

A step forward in our bathhouse work; Onomichi fundraising making progress

Dec 15, 2024 • Sam Holden

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Hints from Japan's hillsides

Slopes tell us about the past, enrich the present, and let us think about the future

Dec 8, 2024 • Sam Holden

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