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One of those opportunities is the Kansai Photojournalism Awards, which were announced this week. Exceptional photojournalism and videography from 2019 were recognized by the Kansai Photojournali…
It’s been a little over a year now since the Tsukiji Fish Market relocated to Toyosu and officially closed their doors forever. The site has since been demolished and the only thing that now rem…
Last weekend will forever be known as The Great Fish Market Migration of 2018. On the afternoon of October 6, 2018, Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market held its final tuna auction and the market was shu…
The Japanese visual artist Atsushi Adachi creates miniature replicas of objects from the past using old newspaper clippings and articles sourced from the same period. Artifacts from history like…
image courtesy @shizushin_news | click to enlargeTangerines, satsuma oranges, mandarin oranges, cuties – it seems everyone has their own name for it. And in Japan, the Mikan – everyone’s favorit…
For more than 100 years, a town in Nara Prefecture has been using leftover, high-quality cypres wood from the home construction process to create disposable chopsticks. But even in this pro…
In April of 2016, a powerful earthquake rocked Kumamoto, toppling parts of Kumamoto Castle and damaging many other historical sites. One of those was 200-year old Soy Sauce maker Hamada Sho…
The rubber eraser is said to be roughly 250 years old. Osaka-based stationery company Seed, who has been making erasers since the 1950s, has developed a translucent eraser. Seed says t…
Mistletoe is an incubation office started in 2016 by serial entrepreneur Taizo Son, the younger brother of billionaire Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. Mistletoe functions as a quasi-residency f…
After years of trial and error, the creators of Hibi arrived at the optimal mixture of paper fibres, incense and charcoal to create the perfect strike-on-box incense match. Japanese ma…
