Author: Japan Trend Shop

Not all beauty masks in Japan are of the animal or face pack variety. And while there are certainly some strange-looking (but still theoretically functioning) beauty gadgets out there, it doesn't ...

Everything comes back into fashion. And that includes Japanese loincloths. Fundoshi are usually only seen on the bodies (and buttocks) of men taking part in Japanese festivals or on sumo wrestlers ...

The Tower of the Sun is one of the great icons of postwar Japan and the Showa era. The huge sculpture is a kind of totem pole that was created by artist Taro Okamoto as one of the signature ...

Maywa Denki are one of Japan's best-kept secrets. Part music unit, part toy designers, part performance artists, the group is now 20 years old but continues to come up with great ideas. Their ...

Pet trends are one of the funnest things we keep our eyes on. After all, what other nation on Earth has such a variety of dog fashion (dog wigs?!), cat cafes -- or even Architecture for Dogs? The ...

Mt Fuji, being not only the tallest mountain in Japan and also a symmetrical beauty of nature, has always lent itself to being a motif for artists and designers to exploit. Perhaps starting with ...

Korg, although respected as a premier electronic musical instrument and accessories maker, still likes to have fun every now and then. That's why in the past it has released such items as Hello ...

Japan is a nation obsessed with food and also, so people say, childishness. And so it is only natural that the two things would be combined at some point. The result is cooking toys, which Takara ...

Some of the best household items in Japan come courtesy of the brand Plus D, which works with a range of individual designers to come up with fun, original and practical objects. Past successes ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Japan might at times seem just to be one concrete jungle, there's still a lot of nature around and even some cities maintain a rare balance between the forests of old and the convenience ...

Bandai's Tamagotchi is one of those series that just continues to survive -- and not only survive, but keep on innovating and coming up with new tricks. Tamagotchi probably needs no introduction ...

While the latest Michael Bay Transformers movie is shooting up the box office around the world (though not yet in Japan), it's worth taking a look at a pretty spectacular local Japanese version. A ...

The Japanese are obsessed with bathing. From hot springs (onsen) to public baths (sento), and even home foot baths for feet saunas, the Japanese take the water, temperature, location and duration of ...