5 Things in Japan I’ll Never Get Used To
During my first few weeks in Japan, I went to the convenience store looking for some familiar food — to aid the homesickness a little. Finding something familiar, I bit into some bread, only to be as…
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Video of a river of salarimen at rush hour
Every weekday morning, office workers come pouring out of Shinagawa Station as they head work in one of the nearby skyscrapers, and in this facinating and frightening time-lapse video from Japan…
Majority of Japanese live with cockroaches
This research asked a very simple question - are there cockroaches in your home? And the result is unsurprising - most people in Japan live with cockroaches. Those huge and disgusting ones.…
Disrupting Japan Podcast #97: This Is Why Japanese Startups Can’t Pivot
Japanese enterprises are particularly susceptible to disruption, and Japanese startups have a harder time than most pivoting. Both of these problems stem from the same root, and today we are going to…
Japan’s potential SpaceX competitor achieves mixed results in first launch
A Japanese startup commercial rocket launch attempted to launch a 10-meter tall ‘Momo’ rocket to orbit on Sunday, but while the rocket achieved liftoff, it only made it about one-fifth of i…
'Godzilla' returning to Tokyo alongside a live orchestra
A digitally remastered version of the original 1954 film directed by Ishiro Honda will be screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) on October 31, the organisers announced on its websi…
School of Life: Japan’s Classroom Cuisine
When lunch bells ring at Japanese elementary schools, instead of students flocking to cafeterias to eat miscellaneous meat in various shades of beige, or to the playground to eat class-divisive …
The Tokyoiter Illustration Project
The Tokyoiter is made by illustration and drawing freaks who are willing to present the talent of artists they like to a larger audience. Some of us are illustrators and some are just living in Tokyo…
Viral Artist Mixes Coffee Cups, Tokyo & Instagram
“Sometimes, I pick coffee based on how big the cup is,” says the 30-year-old with a smile. That’s because it affects his style of creating coffee-cup illustrations that explore ev…
Line gets into food delivery
Line, Japan’s US$8 billion social media giant, today launched a food delivery service. Called Delima, it allows users of Line’s messaging app to order and pay for food deliveries from 14,000 res…