Field Notes

Lanyards

Anyone who has worked as a reporter likely still has a sentimental collection of lanyards stashed somewhere in their home or at their office.

Oct 28 • 

Elizabeth Beattie

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August 2025

Business cards

You know the scene from American Psycho, where waxy-faced Bateman is jostling for business card supremacy with his business bro colleagues, only to be…

Aug 28 • 

Elizabeth Beattie

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July 2025

June 2025

Caffeine

Each morning crowds of suited salarymen circle 7-Eleven coffee machines waiting for their turn for convenience store coffee.

Jun 4 • 

Elizabeth Beattie

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May 2025

Day trips and datelines

Today, I’m absent from the flows of commuters I typically join.

May 11 • 

Elizabeth Beattie

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April 2025

March 2025

To Fukushima

I’ve taken part in a few press trips in Japan and they are typically something of an endurance sport.

Mar 12 • 

Elizabeth Beattie

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February 2025

Printed Matter (1)

Some time ago my colleagues and I went to the Asahi Shimbun printery to watch our paper emerge from the machinery, bathed in fresh ink and hot to the…

Feb 13 • 

Elizabeth Beattie

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