Traveling Vicariously Through Japan’s Tourism Poster Awards
Earlier this year in March, the Japan Travel & Tourism Association announced the recipients of their 2020 Tourism Poster Awards. KyushuA top prize went to the Kyushu Railway Compan…
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An Architecture Firm Designed Their Own Office With A Sloping, Inhabitable Roof
Working primarily in a muted white palette, the firm has demonstrated unique methods of rethinking lifestyles and our relationships with dwellings. Studio Velocity envisioned their new office as…
Kowa Danchi Offers a Renewed Vision of Housing Projects in Japan
After hundreds of years of living in wooden homes that were constantly prone to fire, danchi (団地) public housing projects emerged in the 1960s to cope with Japan’s rapid modernization and urbanizatio…
Shi-An: A Tea House Made From 4000 Units of Origami
all photos by Takuya WatanabeShi-an is a mobile tea house constructed entirely from folded paper without the use of bolts or adhesives. Each piece of washi paper measured about 1 x 3.3 ft (…
For Over 30 Years Itsuo Kobayashi Has Been Keeping an Illustrated Food Diary
All images © Kushino TerraceYears before the era of Instagram and food bloggers, the self-taught artist Itsuo Kobayashi was memorializing every meal he ate. Using a combination of illustrat…
SOUR’s Music Video for Hibi no Neiro was the OG of social distancing
Over 10 years ago, art director Masashi Kawamura teamed up with Japanese band SOUR to produce a fantastic music video for their song hibi no neiro (“tone of everyday”). Needless to say, this was…
A Glass Jug That Looks Like Running Water Designed by Jin Kuramoto
Nedre Foss is a Norwegian label for interior products, founded and backed by the design studio Anderssen & Voll, who reached out to Japanese designer Jin Kuramoto to create a household …
Wild and Mythical New Bricolage Paintings by Yusuke Asai
Installation view at Wulong Lanba Art Festival, ChinaBorn in Tokyo in 1981, the artist Yusuke Asai (previously) continues to travel the world, creating wild and unrestrained art with whatever canvas …
Nendo Designs a House in Japan with Stairs Running Through It
The two met in school and have been friends ever since and partners ever since Sato established his design studio Nendo in 1997. It was roughly 3 years ago when Ito went to Sato with the officia…
Picturesque Photos of Toyama Prefecture Will Make It Your Next Travel Destination
Just 2.5 hours by train from Tokyo is Toyama Prefecture, one of Japan’s smaller prefectures that borders Ishikawa and Nagano. Shogawakyo Valley (above) and the Kaiwo Maru ship with the Tateyama …