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If it looks like a chair and acts like a chair, but has over two million on back order, is it really just any ol’ chair? Introducing Buddy -the game chair-! This floor chair is e…
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 "Pin…
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. …
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. …
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 electri…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 abou…
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