Forget everything you were ever taught/forced to learn about making a bed. The truth is, with the right textures and layers you can leave your bed unmade and not be classified as a slob. We first not…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 6 years, 12 months ago | 0 comments

Students in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, have created dinosaur sculptures using rice straw from farmers affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

There are six straw dinosaurs on display. …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years ago | 0 comments

Are you ready to step through the Anywhere Door to a world of unique Doraemon art? The Doraemon Exhibition Tokyo 2017 is now open to the public at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Roppongi, Tokyo and …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years ago | 0 comments

The “Exhibition of Shinkai Makoto”, covering his artworks from “Voices of a Distant Star” to “Your Name,” will be held in The National Art Center, Tokyo from Saturday, November 11th to Monday, Decemb…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years ago | 0 comments

WAJIMA, Ishikawa — A violin made using the Wajima lacquerware technique of Ishikawa Prefecture will enter the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, considered one of the world’s finest repos…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

People in Chichibu, a city north of Tokyo, launched hand-made rockets on Sunday to express their gratitude for the season's harvest.

The annual festival, held in a mountainous region of the city, dat…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

Ishiguro is not a Japanese writer but I wanted to share this news here as he was born in Japan and certainly was influenced by Japanese culture at least through his parents.

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

“In Hokkaido where I live, winters are harsh and snows are deep,” says photographer Eiji Ohashi. “Every day can become rather inconvenient” due to the constant snowfall. But heavy snows also bring wi…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 0 comments

An exhibition of artworks made of kimono cloth opened in Mito city, north of Tokyo, on Tuesday.

"Nunoe" is a Japanese handcraft similar to patchwork in which scraps of kimono and obi fabric are stitc…

posted by  Tanuki | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments

For the very first time, a Japanese TV drama is featuring a popular actor from Thailand!
It's a story about a young Thai man who runs away accompanied by a Japanese high school girl.

posted by  Tanuki | 7 years, 2 months ago | 0 comments