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“Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art” is on view through Dec. 8 in LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion. Cats are one ancient symbol for good fortune in Japanese art; cranes are another, overla…
There is the blue period section, where products will be stocked for women who are currently on their period, the glittering period (after your period), the turbulence period (when you are feeling ir…
Major publisher’s promotion of Musume no Tomodachi has some saying the company is encouraging an illegal relationship with a minor. Most of the bullet points for the premise of publisher Kodansh…
There are all kinds of reasons for people to get performance anxiety before writing, and Twitter user @utanokobako reminisced on her own tribulations when writing personal opinion essays for school, …
It was the triumphant return of Tapioca Land, a business centered around 2019’s trendiest drink in Japan, Tapioca (aka, bubble tea, boba, pearl milk tea, etc.). However, this time, rather than a…
Hikvision -- the world's largest video surveillance company -- employs image sensors supplied by Sony in 180 of its surveillance camera models and sensors from Sharp in two c…
Through January 5, 2020, we are excited that Japan House in Los Angeles is hosting Japan 47 Artisans, an exhibition that explores the diversity of Japanese craft traditions through the eyes of contem…
Japanese artist explains why turning your ashes into a pencil is a better choice than turning them into a diamond. Cremation is the norm in Japan, and the ashes of the deceased are usually divid…
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…
Animation isn’t supposed to be this rad. As we’ve established more than once, Lupin III: The First, the upcoming CG animated film entry in the Lupin III series of high-flying anime thievery…
