Author: Japan Trend Shop

Dutch electronics maker have stolen the limelight from local manufacturers with this new must-have home item, the Philips Noodle Maker. The automatic raw noodle maker can churn out ramen, soba, udon ...

Japanese people like to dress up. Various commentators like to point to social phenomenon like cosplay (literally, "costume play") as examples of how people seek escape in role-playing and ...

You might think there isn't much room for further development in the design of the humble flower vase. But you'd be wrong. Designed by Fumiaki Goto/224 Porcelain, the Hanabunko is a flower vase ...

Teapots are all well and good but they retain only around 30% of the nutrients from the tea leaves. Sharp spotted a way to deliver better cups of tea and in a very convenient way for the person ...

Another day, another intriguing Hatsune Miku collaboration. From expensive opera productions to every piece of merchandise an otaku can get his hands on, Hatsune Miku is not just a virtual idol, ...

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 ...

Scuba divers ordinarily use hand signals to communicate underwater but thanks to Casio Yamagata's Logosease, now they can talk to each other almost as if they are walking on dry ground. All you need ...

It's hard to believe that Sanrio's most successful creation and Japan's most famous cat is 40 years old! It's true, Hello Kitty turns 40 this year and to celebrate Sanrio is teaming with Bandai to ...

Projection mapping has really taken off in Japan. Recently we have seen Tokyo Station being transformed in a video spectacle, as well as the Yokohama Odyssey event at a historical dockyard, and ...

The Koppu no Fuchiko ("Fuchiko on the edge of the cup") by Kitan Club and Katsuki Tanaka was first released in 2012 as a Gashapon capsule toy. In a nutshell, it's a series of cute figurines of an ...

Spring is not a fun time to be in Japan if you suffer from hay fever, which is normally a summer phenomenon in other countries. Due to a forestation boom after the war, Japan saw a surge in the ...

Just into our online store, Takara Tomy and Sanrio have got together to give us an amazingly kawaii combo of Licca-chan and Hello Kitty. There are two versions in this "Daisuki" (Love it!) series. ...

The original Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack created a HUGE stir when it was released a while back. Now our online store has got the follow-up, the Oppo Dog Muzzle Quack Closed. As the name suggests, it has ...

There are all kinds of ways to cure stress. A nice cold beer. An hour in the driving range. Going postal. But here's a way we never heard of before and trust Thanko to be the ones to come up with ...

We have long ago run out of those "standard" Japanese gifts that we can get away with sending out relatives back home. You know the ones, right? Green tea. Chopsticks. Sake cups. And so on. What ...