Akihabara unplugged: Tokyo's electric town falls flat
Special report Tokyo's Akihabara district may be fabled the world over as a geek wonderland and a tech writer's dream, but the reality as El Reg found out last weekend is rather different. …
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Tokujin Yoshioka's Transparent Glass Teahouse Puts a Rainbow in Your Hand
The teahouse plays a central role in the Japanese tea ceremony. It is to cha-no-yu, as it is referred to in Japanese, what a museum is to art. The tea house is typically a minimal space, me…
7 Timelessly Traditional Japanese Games and Toys
Japan has many traditional children's games and toys dating back hundreds of years. Many originate from the Edo period, when Japan had relatively little contact with the outside world. The toys…
Japan, Arcades & Gaming
Every time the train slows down as it approaches the station and the female voice announces 'Akihabara...Akihabara' over the speaker and the little jingle kicks in, I still get that same fe…
After 14 Years Takashi Murakami is Returning to Japan For a Large Scale Solo Show
Depending on which side of the art critique spectrum you stand on, Takashi Murakami is either a boon to contemporary Japanese art or a blight and disease that is ruining otaku culture. Bu…
Join the world’s largest Anime Convention – Anime Japan!
Anime Japan is a Japanese anime convention which was created from the merge of The Tokyo International Anime Fair and the Anime contents Expo in 2014. It is organized by the A…
Ochazuke in Tokyo | Tokyoing
When you feel like eating something not too heavy although you are hungry, what about "Ochazuke"? Ochazuke is one of... read the original article
Have a Rice Day! Rice Cooker History, Features, Futures, and More
My brother had warned me, “Once you go rice cooker, you don’t go back.” He was right. I had grown up in a household where we cooked rice in a pot, on our stovetop. In college I …
Japan's hidden caste of untouchables - BBC News
Japan has a reputation of being a homogeneous, mostly harmonious society. There are few foreigners, linguistic differences are rare and on the surface class distinctions are largely absent. But, as M…
Dinosaur Valley Fukui Katsuyama Geopark
Do you know that Dinosaurs lived in Japan, and you can see the fossils where they were found? The Dinosaur Valley Fukui Katsuyama Geopark (Recognized as a geopark October 2009) is a geopar…