Given Japan's mountainous terrain it should come as no surprise that Tokyo's fringes boast many great hikes. So with that said, it's time to dust off the hiking gear, grab some friends and hit the tr…

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Summer Events with Of Japan in Tokyo? What do you think? Good morning everybody! Did you have a nice Golden Week?

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A Japanese band made up entirely of robots has been revealed at a music festival in Hong Kong.

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Inside the igloo festival, or kamakura matsuri, in northern Japan.

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Thank you for supporting PingMag’s first book, “The Japanese Home”, on indiegogo. The campaign period has now ended and contributions have been closed.

We are right now putting together plans for th…

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What gives Japanese kimonos their luxurious appeal? Pure silk, which is also used to make strings for the shamisen, as a canvas for Japanese paintings, and these days is even being applied in medicin…

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The Mother Book is a pregnancy diary that mirrors the 40 weeks that a mother typically spends nurturing their babies inside their womb. The elaborately designed, handcrafted book consists of 40 pag…

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the new Tokyo headquarters of architectural firm Suppose Design Office

At the age of 26 Makoto Tanijiri founded Suppose Design Office in his hometown of Hiroshima. Over the past 15 years he’s des…

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Sankaku Complex offers total coverage of anime, manga, games, doujinshi, cosplay, seiyuu, idols, along with galleries, videos, and image sharing. If you are new to the site, feel free to browse the o…

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“Tone Scape 01? (cropped). 530x193mm, edition 5, Film Based Photography. Photos courtesy YOD Gallery | click to enlarge

The Kyoto-based photographer Hideki Kuwajima doesn’t carry around his camer…

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