Last week Ryuichi Sakamoto released his new album “12”, in which all tracks are named after a date. You might have not given to it much thought but all dates are written in the format year-month-day, for instance 20220302, which is the standard way of writing dates in Japanese. I care to highlight this for a reason. (I briefly mentioned this on my radio show last Tuesday too -
5. The collective first
5. The collective first
5. The collective first
Last week Ryuichi Sakamoto released his new album “12”, in which all tracks are named after a date. You might have not given to it much thought but all dates are written in the format year-month-day, for instance 20220302, which is the standard way of writing dates in Japanese. I care to highlight this for a reason. (I briefly mentioned this on my radio show last Tuesday too -