Wabi-Sabi : Permission to Stop Making Your Bed
Forget everything you were ever taught/forced to learn about making a bed. The truth is, with the right textures and layers you can leave your bed unmade and not be classified as a slob. We first not…
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Rice straw dinosaur sculptures dazzle visitors in Sendai, northeast Japan
Students in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, have created dinosaur sculptures using rice straw from farmers affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. There are six straw dinosaurs on disp…
Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel
After three days of carefully navigating through a shattered reactor building, the Manbo finally reached the heavily damaged Unit 3 reactor. There, the robot beamed back video of a gaping hole at the…
Japan eyes imposing departure tax ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
A Japan Tourism Agency panel on Thursday proposed imposing ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics a departure tax on people leaving the country. An interim report submitted by the pane…
Edible gigts to bring back from Japan
Whether you found yourself drooling over anime food or came across an Instagram post, Japan continuously leaves us wondering what these edibles taste like. It’s not surprising that when I moved to Ja…
Amazon launches its Echo devices and Alexa in Japan
Alongside the hardware, it is also making its Alexa voice assistant available in the country. That means that developers will gain access to Alexa Skills — which has support for Japanese — while cons…
The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance, as the dapper Ishii Yuichi insists, is everything. As a man whose business involves b…
The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo
Are you ready to step through the Anywhere Door to a world of unique Doraemon art? The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017 is now open to the public at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo and …
The Xbox One X Is Selling Out In Japan
Early this morning, a sign went up in front of the Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo’s Akihabara. It read 完売 (kanbai), which means “sold out.” This is just one of several stores across Japan that have sold t…
Exhibition of Shinkai Makoto
The “Exhibition of Shinkai Makoto”, covering his artworks from “Voices of a Distant Star” to “Your Name,” will be held in The National Art Center, Tokyo from Saturday, November 11th to Monday, Decemb…