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After three years of consultations, the fate of Tokyo’s oldest wooden station building has finally been revealed. ▼ The old station and its narrow footpath become heavily congested during events…
Sapporo Snow Festival 2020The most famous snow festival is the Sapporo Snow Festival held on Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido. Close to Nishi River, Nikko City, Tochigi - MapTokamachi …
A resident of Chiyoda Ward in Tokyo has declared to himself that the time has come to beat the crap out of his futon. Parts of Kyle Mansfield’s body has been touching the floor through the futon…
Derry Moore, the acclaimed British photographer of interiors, gardens, and portraits, has traveled the world since the 1970s, amassing a portfolio of images that has signally enriched the pages of AD…
With Shenmue III finally out today, we’re revisiting this look back on how this quirky franchise forklifted video games into the new millennium. At the time, it was the most expensive video game…
An engineer at Toyota took his own life after being abused by his boss, local officials have ruled. The employee was constantly called an “idiot” and told he should die, according to Yoshihide T…
New images from a Japanese Sony patent, first filed in March and recently published by the Japanese patent office, seem to show a new version of Sony's DualShock controller. The patent imag…
Scientists from Japan have used machine learning for the first time to identify a new figure among the ancient motifs of Peru’s Nazca Lines. “It’s a large achievement.”The geoglyph was discovere…
Perhaps that is why its refreshing to see Murakami's new show at Perrotin in Tokyo, Superflat Doraemon. From Japanese art critic, Yoshio Suzuki:In creating works of contemporary art based o…
Akihabara News (Tokyo) — Following its release of two full-frame mirrorless cameras last year, the Z7 and the Z6, Nikon has now released its first APS-C model, the Z50, which should bring t…
