The iconic giant Gundam that has protected citizens in Tokyo, Japan since 2009 is officially no more.

After its last show on March 5, the 59-foot (18-meter) tall RX-78 Gundam replica was officially d…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

Today marks the last day of the life-size Gundam in Tokyo, as it is now going to be dismantled. However, not only are there plans to create a life-size Gundam that walks by 2019 but we are also getti…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 2 comments

The center of the complex, which is set to open on April 20th, will also host an exhibition space overseen by Mori Art Museum’s Fumio Nanjo. The debut exhibition will be an installation by Yayoi Kusa…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

From ground level, it didn’t look like much. In fact, the scene looked like a lot of rural Japan: rice paddies with tender shoots in shades of green, rippling in the wind and stretching off into the …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 2 comments

When Japanese bookshops opened up at midnight on Feb. 24 for his book launch event, Haruki Murakami was back in the news and back on our shelves. Although no publication date has yet been set for the…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 2 comments

Rather than a typical tattoo parlor, the room resembled a tiny school library filled with hundreds of books on everything from paintings to Chinese calligraphy. However, there were some clues pointin…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

Serendipity brings with it all kinds of gifts. Sometimes chance meetings or random conversations can start new friendships, ideas, and collaborations. Other times when the timing is right, a simple q…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

The mountain town of Karuizawa is about an hour’s train ride northwest of Tokyo, a journey that zooms past the small, heartbreaking scenes of beauty that any traveler here knows, an endlessly repeati…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 1 month ago | 1 comment

Here is some great news for all of you Studio Ghibli Anime fans.

Oscar-winning Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki has come out of retirement to work on a new animated feature film, a producer at Studio…

posted by  Yubi | 7 years, 1 month ago | 4 comments

Since it opened in November of 2016, the Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo has already recorded 100,000 visitors, proving that the enigmatic Katsushika Hokusai continues to be an object of deep fascinat…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 2 months ago | 1 comment