People in Japan may not know Yutaka Foods but if you've bought any Japanese food in the UK or elsewhere in Europe, the chances are it was imported by them. Yutaka Foods has just released an ad, ...

Just an ordinary weekend in Tokyo? Wrong. Saturday witnessed the first ever robot wedding. As we reported back in May, Maywa Denki's Frois bot and the AKB48 Yuki Kashiwagi idol-lookalike android ...

Tails of Head is a project by HYdeJII where a specially adapted robotic vacuum cleaner creates paintings using multiple colors. Head-kun (aka Mr Head) is the artist. According to his (?) profile, ...

Dominique Ansel, the acclaimed Parisian-style New York bakery, has opened its first overseas outlet -- in Tokyo. The new bakery opened at the plush Omotesando Hills complex on June 20th, joining ...

Manami Okazaki has released a second edition of her book "Kokeshi, from Tohoku with Love", featuring interviews with 23 kokeshi artisans as well as 200 photos documenting how the unique wooden dolls ...

How do you promote the new Terminator movie in Japan? Simple. You dress up a dancer in a Japanese schoolgirl uniform and have her perform deep under the ground. Crank up the iconic Terminator ...

Get your drawing skills ready, kids. Here is the perfect aquarium that doesn't require any maintenance -- only creativity! The Picturerium is a digital fish tank. There are no live fish inside the ...

Seibu hosted a special "nightclub train" event on June 5th-6th, featuring on-board DJs and music as passengers were transported in the charted train from Nerima non-stop all the way to ...

Kendama have made a big comeback. The traditional cup-and-ball Japanese toy has been gaining in popularity in foreign countries for a little while now and in Japan too, the Japan Kendama Association ...

Super Mario Bros. fans should head on down to Tower Records (yes, the chain still exists in Japan!) for the Super Mario Bros. Tower Records Cafe at the Shibuya, Ebisu and Omotesando branches from ...

This article by Tiffany first appeared on Tokyo Cheapo. While Japan has its own share of street food, street food culture just isn’t as common in Japan as it is in Southeast Asia, where locals ...

Go hunting for Shaun the Sheep in Omotesando this June in a special art and charity event called "Shaun in Japan". The Shaun-hunting event has already been a success in the Aardman Animations ...

The Chinese government has cracked down on Japanese anime, banning the broadcast online of 38 titles via various Chinese websites and online services. There is no suggestion that it is because ...

The rainy season is upon us: get ready for several weeks of rain around Japan. Any visit to a major store in Tokyo will mean you are confronted with a mountain of products designed to help you ...

We try to avoid ranting on this site since no one wants to read consistently negative content. However, we haven't made any secret of our cynicism about the upcoming 2020 Olympics, whose plans ...