People from Britain, like myself, often forget that many other countries don't have roundabouts. The idea of a circular junction with no traffic lights, where the unspoken rules of the road define ...

The fashion accessory brand Q-pot, known for its chocolate-themed products, has got together with Sharp to create a special limited edition Q-pot. Melty Chocolate TV, which it is selling exclusively ...

Japan's prison facilities have come under international criticism in recent years. Inmates often do not have heating or air-conditioning, and prisoners on death row live in near total isolation, ...

Biwako Biennale 2014 kicks off on September 13th, running until November 9th in a small city along the edge of Japan's largest lake in Shiga Prefecture. This sixth edition of the festival ...

While Jins (aka J!NS) like to dabble in forward-thinking technology for glasses, they are also fully aware that spectacles are as much fashion accessories as they are practical vision tools. This is ...

It seems that you can't claim to be famous these days unless you take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge to promote awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). In Japan there have been a fair ...

Robotic pets, also known as robo-pets (not to be confused with the actual Robopet), are making something of a return to the shelves of stores in Japan in a valiant effort to buck the trend of local ...

Now this is going to be fast. Kyodo News has reported that Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) has formally filed an application today with the Japanese transport ministry to build a maglev ...

Batman no longer lives in Gotham. He's fighting crime in Japan! Japanese social media has been abuzz with some amazing images of Batman driving in his Batpod along the highways in the Tokyo ...

Japan may well be the land of home electronics (Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba et al) but on the whole apartments and houses are small. It only takes a few appliances for things to get very ...

Another day, another crazy use of English in the world of Tokyo retail? But no, this isn't another new entry in the long annals of places in Japan with unfortunate English names. The innuendo is ...

Funassyi just can't be stopped. The pear (nashi) character that famously started off as an unofficial yuru-kyara mascot for Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture has become so popular that he now has his own ...

Recently many people were excited by the artist-designed rooms at the Park Hotel Tokyo that let guests stay in spaces incorporating calligraphy and matsuri-inspired colorful murals. We'll have to ...

A little over a week ago people around the world began talking about a particular, and peculiar, Japanese beauty gadget. Plus ça change, we hear some of you say. But the Facial Fitness Pao ...

ISIS has apparently captured a Japanese men in Aleppo with the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Although still unverified and as yet to appear in the mainstream media at time of writing, images and videos ...