This is how Japanese farmers plant their rice these days, with the help of modern planting machines.

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Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity…

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This smartphone charger is the latest automotive accessary to reach the “gadget shops” of Akihabara. The display shows the progress of battery charging, as a percentage.

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Yesterday everyone’s favorite minimal lifestyle store MUJI opened a new shop in Yurakucho, Tokyo. The new space, which is actually a renovation of an existing store, occupies 3 floors and 3,277 squ…

posted by  RamenRyan | 9 years, 3 months ago | 3 comments

Last year I wrote an article called “The Real Japanese Monk’s Guide To Buddhism In Japan.” At the end of it I said that we would one day explore a real Japanese monk’s day-to-day life. It took a whil…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years, 3 months ago | 0 comments

Two years ago when I went to Japan with my parents, we were walking around Ikebukuro and we couldn't find any place to eat. We stumbled upon a cute little local okonomiyaki restaurant... we didn't ev…

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Winter brings with it a flurry of snowstorms and bad weather that can seriously disrupt people's lives. And who really has the time or energy to shovel snow all day? Enter Yuki Taro. This snow-gobbli…

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Slush flies and blades flash as some show-off slices by on the rink. Onlookers grip cocoa in mittened hands and precocious be-sequined divas do twirls in the center. There are plenty of cheapo places…

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Shinsaibashi Shotengai interior, looking north The Shinsaibashi shotengai is a shopping street with a very long history! This covered arcade, site of some of Osaka's historical bridges, has been arou…

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Tokyo-based architect Emmanuelle Moureaux is on a quest to make Japan’s financial services industry more colorful. Her latest work for Sugamo Shinkin Bank – her 5th for the Japanese commercial bank…

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