Theft and other organized crime by tourists has brought a new problem to shops and trade shoes in Tokyo.

Tokyo police have arrested 3 Chinese people who they suspect are members of the "Pink Panda" c…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

When Fastly entered the Japanese market, they quickly discovered that they had change their technology-driven bottom up sales approach to fit Japan’s top-down enterprise market.

Today we sit down wi…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments

If you’re a fan of the sparkly and shiny, and you live in Tokyo, you’re in luck. Two (unrelated) exhibitions that opened in January are bringing a prismatic shine and a microscopic sparkle to Tokyo. …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

The solar power boom in Japan accelerated dramatically last year, according to new data published last week by Japan’s Renewable Energy Institute.

Solar photovoltaics (PV) share of electricity produ…

posted by  Sergey | 9 years, 7 months ago | 0 comments

This season's snow in Japan has been measured in metres rather than centimetres. This is not just in Hokkaido but now throughout Honshu. This is clearly good news for the ski resorts, but often an an…

posted by  Sergey | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

After spending two weeks in Tokyo, one aspect of the city continued to strike me after I returned: the overwhelming abundance of vending machines.

The proliferation of vending machines is impossible…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

We updated Akihabara.Tokyo. Now it is powered by askapp.org Django based script. I am not going to get into technical tetails but I would like to outline here what functionality we have already build…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 7 months ago | 3 comments

There are a ton of different types of maid cafes in Japan, catering to all sorts of tastes, ranging from Shangrila’s “plump” maids to Ita-Cafe’s uniformed Russian girls.

But what about people who’d …

posted by  Sergey | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment

Nintendo Switch looks interesting and I am tempted to buy this console. So My question is when will it be possible to preorder Switch, for how much and when it will start shipping?
And of course how …

posted by  Sergey | 9 years, 7 months ago | 3 comments

Last couple of years have seen quite a few new types of treatment for hay fever. And some of those cure the problem forever.

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 7 months ago | 1 comment