Author: William

Shiseido's Hanatsubaki digital archive is a fascinating glimpse back into Japan's cosmetics advertising past. Drawing on the graphic design and ads featured over the years in Hanatsubaki, ...

The first posters for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) have been released, showing the cast in costume as their respective characters. Regardless of your ...

What would a melody from a dying star sound like? ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is a state-of-the-art radio telescope developed and operated by 20 countries and territories ...

Another day, another themed cafe in Tokyo. The Tower Records Shibuya second-floor cafe has been transformed from November 17th into the Snoopy Tower Records Cafe. Open until December 31st, the ...

It has been one of the biggest trends of recent years and then just like that, it has faded away. So-called "tattoo tights" exploded into the popular and digital consciousness in 2011, even ...

It's sold 40 million comic books and counting. The live-action film adaptation is coming to a big screen near you soon. And now you can design your own Attack on Titan character and have it eat ...

Kentucky Fried Chicken has entered the coffee shop market in Japan, in a direct challenge to the McDonald's McCafé format. From November 28th, the Colonel's Cafe in Kobe will be serving French press ...

NEC has got together with Fashion TV to offer a smartphone and tablet service for mobile eCommerce for apparel items you see in a magazine. If you see an item in a magazine you like, you can use ...

Police were called at 6:55 p.m. on November 11th with reports of a man who had set fire to himself in Hibiya Park, in central Tokyo. The man, who later died, had apparently committed ...

It has been over a month from the surprising Mt Ontake volcanic eruption in late September, which ultimately killed 57 people. One of those who perished was Kazuo Wakabayashi (66), from Matsumoto ...

Winter is coming and it's time to get cosy inside the kotatsu, the traditional Japanese low table with a large blanket and heater underneath. The kotatsu can be a homemade contraption with a regular ...

We're not sure if this qualifies as a "trend" but it made us laugh. To us, SpongeBob SquarePants has always been a bit creepy, but in Japan the yellow character is apparently a cutie. This must be ...

If you passed through Shibuya yesterday evening or night you cannot have failed to notice that it was Halloween. A bustling and manifold place at any time of the year, on October 31st it burst into ...

Maid cafes in Akihabara have almost become a cliche of themselves, catering for the curious tourist as much as the genuine enthusiast. But cosplay restaurant subculture apparently still has some ...

Wearable gadgetry just got more functional, thanks to Lotte, the candy maker who has come up with the Rhymi-Kamu chewing gum bite counter earphones. The Korean company, also based in Japan, ...