Author: William

Former Gravure model and television personality Ayaka Ichinose (34) and actress Akane Sugimori (28) have announced that they are a couple and will marry in Tokyo next April. This follows the news ...

Gotta catch 'em all. Or should that be "eat and drink 'em all"? Shibuya Parco will open the Pokémon Cafe (Pokémon cafe Ω Ruby & α Sapphire) next month. Opening January 9th, the pop-up cafe ...

If we're honest, Japanese television is not acclaimed for its sophistication or journalistic integrity. And the coverage of the recent Lower House election last weekend did little to boost that ...

We've all seen them. We've all pitied them. We've all admired them. Japanese trains are full of odd sights -- but perhaps none so odd as the spectacle of people managing to get some shuteye no ...

Google has shared shared the top search terms in Japan for 2014. Here are the top search terms, which were of course originally in Japanese and so vary slightly from the translation or English ...

Move over Christopher Nolan. Mitsubishi recently offered an interstellar virtual test drive for its Outlander Phev model using the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Like the Nissan Leaf, the ...

Following last year's top trends and major buzzwords and memes, we are going to take a look back at the big trends and topics for 2014 in Japan. We already examined some of the main Twitter buzz of ...

Twitter Japan has announced the top ten hashtags and top ten trends for Japan in 2014. Anime-related hashtags accounted for four of the top ten, while number 8 was taken by a hashtag for Gravure ...

Every year in Japan there are illumination and light displays at malls and other venues around the country. Many are elaborate. Most are expensive. But some are just out of this world. The Abeno ...

UNIQLO spin-off GU recently held a kabe-don event at its Ginza branch as a promo for a holiday season sale. Does the idea of having a hot guy leaning up against you inside a clothes store, ...

When Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo released Type at the start of the year it got a lot of buzz from both eyewear lovers and typeface fans. Japanese typology design is respected around the world and its ...

Want a free haircut? Of course! But the free cut being offered by Mars Japan Limited for six days at weekends in Omotesando comes at a different sort of price. It's kind of insane. While Japan ...

The au Unlimited Future Laboratory is phone carrier KDDI's experimental division for creating what could turn out to be the gadgets we all use in the future (or not, as the case may be). Here ...

No, those are not stars in a planetarium. They are watch parts. Spiral's trademark atrium space was transformed by Citizen into "Light is Time", a special installation that saw countless watch ...

Engimono are good luck charms and talismans, and come in all shapes and sizes, from Daruma dolls to Maneki-neko, the beckoning cat. They are particularly associated with the Eto (Chinese zodiac) and ...