Here's a fun research project - based on photos' metadata this Flickr user mapped places most visited by tourists (red) and locals (blue). Yellow can be either one.

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Japan is usually thought of as a major travel destination: it's the place you go to marvel at centuries-old temples and traditional towns, not necessarily to get some work done. But it turns out it c…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Unfortunately the article is in Japanese only, but a picture says everything here - you can now buy rice in plastic bottles. Like there is not enough plastic waste already...

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Hiroyuki Suzuki couldn’t be happier that his company is charging him and all other employees about $100 an hour to use meeting rooms. “People really cut back on useless meetings,” says Suzuki, 37, wh…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Sony last year announced it would enter Japan’s taxi-hailing space and, good to its word, the electronics giant has kicked off its S.Ride service in Tokyo.

The service — which was first noted by CNET…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Scotty of Strange Parts went to Akihabara (an area in Tokyo loaded with electronics, game arcades, and maid cafes) and found these cool wireless LEDs that can be illuminated with inductive chargers. …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

A familiar orange and green signboard glares in the pitch-dark, quiet street in a residential area. There, the owner of a 7-Eleven franchise store located in the suburbs of a small city in the Chubu …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

Overnight leaders Kakuryu and Tochinoshin fell into a three-way tie with rank-and-file grappler Asanoyama following their upset losses at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday.
The joint leaders…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 2 months ago | 1 comment

A shop owned by Nobumichi Tosa, a member of Maywa Denki sells all kinds of strange inventions - baseball that farts, robot that claps hands when someone approaches it. The owner hopes that the displa…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

Residents of Japan began entering a ticket lottery on Thursday, hoping to land seats for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
People overseas will have to wait until June 15 when tickets are put on sale by sp…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments