This article by Frances Maeda first appeared on Tokyo Cheapo. At last -- hanami season is here! Grab your camera, pack a picnic and prepare for your anime moment under the falling petals. We’ve ...
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These are guaranteed to be a hit at any bachelor party! The Mousou Mapping Bra T-Shirt are a series of tees with a difference. Their fronts are decorated with the object of every man's daydreams ...
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Yesterday an extraordinary thing happened. A man who had been in prison since the 1960's finally went free after nearly five decades behind bars for a crime he almost certainly did not ...
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While Japan's beauty and skincare product designers have produced no shortage of original and sometimes alarming-looking face masks, this might just be the most intriguing we've encountered in a ...
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Antibacterial, odor-resistant sports face protection
When Sharp first released its Cocorobo, the world was pretty impressed. Here was a low-cost robotic vacuum cleaner that could respond to its owner's commands and be controlled by Android and iPhone ...
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Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been awarded the top award in architecture, the Pritzker Prize. Ban (56) has been given the accolade primarily for his humanitarian work, such as in the 1995 ...
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In between pushing through a controversial secrecy bill and annoying its Asian neighbors, the Japanese government is hoping to combat the country's chronic birth decline in a pretty unexpected ...
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Condos aren't the only thing rising in Tokyo's bayside area. Following on from the life-sized Gundam robot already standing proud in Odaiba, Patlabor is getting in on the act as a promo for an ...
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While the Japanese media always seems to be dominated by upbeat reports of the "millions" of sales that AKB48 ostensibly achieves, the real story of the Japanese music industry is one of serious ...
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Can the real beneficiaries of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics please stand up? As expected, the biggest impact is going to be felt in the balance sheets of the real estate companies developing the bayside ...
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On February 17th, there was yet another incursion on the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. But this time it wasn't posturing nationalists on the Chinese or Japanese side. Instead, it was a bunch of ...
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This might be the most bizarre advertising collaboration we've ever heard of... but one guaranteed to become a meme. Welsh-born, naturalized Japanese naturalist (get it?) CW Nicol has loaned his ...
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USB-powered anti-allergic face protection device
Have our worst dreams come true? After ASEAN, will the Opening Ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games feature a battalion of skimpily clad, underage girls representing Japan?! This nightmare ...
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Spring always brings a flurry of sakura (cherry blossom)-themed products, from sweets to stamps, phone apps and more. But we never imagined there would be a pink cheeseburger any time soon! As ...
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Catch is a 15-minute-long short film produced by Intel Japan that tells the story of a boy in Tokyo. While the whole thing is fictitious, it is a successful example of how to turn sentimentality ...
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