We've seen it around for a while overseas but we just read an interesting report about how so-called eyelash art is apparently starting to pick up more adopters among Japanese women in their twenties ...
Last Sunday around current 40 female high school students (known as "JK", as in josei koukousei, not Rowling) helped plan and create a special shopping event aimed at fellow high school girls inside ...
Kawasaki Halloween 2012 happened yesterday (Sunday, October 28), the annual Halloween-themed cosplay extravaganza in the Kanagawa city just outside Tokyo.
With some 3,500 people appearing in ...
Fans of the Japanese anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica can now saddle up on a motorcycle decorated in the themes of the cult anime and manga.
All right, so it's an electric scooter and is ...
Darth Vader Yoroi Samurai Armor Display Set
The Star Wars villain like you've never seen him before!
The media is reporting that notorious Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara is resigning from his role as head honcho of the capital city in order to form a new party and try to become prime ...
Kyosho Space Ball is RC Star Wars interrogation drone
October 24, 2012
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There is already such a pantheon of RC driving and flying toys out there, you wonder where else there is to go for makers.
Well, Kyosho have come up with this globe-like Space Ball, a ...
We've been a fan of Yuri Suzuki's work for a while now.
The Japanese designer is a bit of a globe-trotter, though he is largely based in the UK. He's also a toughie to pin down. A sound artist? A ...
Japan’s Office Ladies wearing diapers? The latest “wacky Japan” myth
October 22, 2012
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William
So if you hated the way that a minor subcultural activity like injecting saline into your forehead was blown up (no pun) into a mainstream beauty "trend" by foreign media, then check out this latest ...
Utaet Voice Training Silent Karaoke Mic
Sing to improve your abilities and also exercise your body!
With obvious echoes of the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin attack while killed 13, last night at just after midnight a mysterious can-like object exploded on Tokyo's Marunouchi Line, one of the major ...
(With apologies for the second film-related post in as many days.)
Kicking off tomorrow is the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival.
This year's line-up includes everything from Cirque du ...
Koji Wakamatsu, one of the giants of Japanese cinema, has sadly and suddenly died after being struck by a taxi while crossing a street in Shinjuku. He was 76 and still very active.
Like many of ...
A Japanese tabloid has published a June 2008 picture of Shinzo Abe, president for the second time of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, showing the politician alongside former Arkansas Governor ...
hiiro Ceramic Water Carafe
Product designer Shizuka Tatsuno has teamed up with Daikura, a bizen-yaki pottery studio. The result of this collaboration is a stunning and very practical ceramic carafe especially made for water.
Pairy was announced in June, a special iPhone and Android app just for a couple to communicate between themselves.
Pairy is not a pioneer in a global sense but it might provide solutions to local ...
New Docomo smartphones collaborate with ONE PIECE, Jill Stuart
October 15, 2012
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William
Just when you think you've got a grasp on all the myriad collaborations, tie-ups and spin-offs, along comes some more to confound you.
NTT Docomo's new winter range of phones includes one for the ...
Japanese calligraphy robot show artificial arts of the brush
October 12, 2012
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William
The folks at DigInfo have put together this nice report on a Japanese robot that can recreate the detailed brushstrokes of human calligraphy using a Motion Copy System.
While the whole get-up may ...