Author: William

Vending machines come in all shapes and sizes, and seem to sell everything from books to snacks, drinks, used panties and more. But how about a vending machine that lets you have a private dance ...

Snoopy and green tea? Whatever will they think of next. Actually, this isn't such a big shock, since Snoopy is a popular character in Japan, though this is still a pretty original way to utilize ...

Take two things Japan does very well -- and combine them! Just when you think there isn't much more room for innovation with the world of karaoke, along comes FamilyMart with a new branch, ...

Blackface or a clever marketing campaign? Imagine a female minstrel show with svelte legs and you might have the right image of this Astigu, a Japanese tights brand. The ads feature 11 ...

Nissan has created a fun film of an eight-year-old giving his mom a very nice surprise. Hinata and his mom take a drive in a Nissan Dayz Highway Star. Mrs. Masuda thinks she is going to be ...

Top Japanese design studio nendo has designed this coffee mugs for Starbuck's in Japan. Sold at Starbucks branches throughout Japan, the mugs have a print on the bottom that makes it look like the ...

Dutch artist Jeroen Bisscheroux installed a brilliant swimming pool artwork in Osaka as part of the Namura Shipyard Creative Center Osaka's artist-in-residency program. "POOL loss of colour" was ...

Yesterday an extraordinary thing happened. A man who had been in prison since the 1960's finally went free after nearly five decades behind bars for a crime he almost certainly did not ...

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been awarded the top award in architecture, the Pritzker Prize. Ban (56) has been given the accolade primarily for his humanitarian work, such as in the 1995 ...

In between pushing through a controversial secrecy bill and annoying its Asian neighbors, the Japanese government is hoping to combat the country's chronic birth decline in a pretty unexpected ...

Condos aren't the only thing rising in Tokyo's bayside area. Following on from the life-sized Gundam robot already standing proud in Odaiba, Patlabor is getting in on the act as a promo for an ...

While the Japanese media always seems to be dominated by upbeat reports of the "millions" of sales that AKB48 ostensibly achieves, the real story of the Japanese music industry is one of serious ...

Can the real beneficiaries of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics please stand up? As expected, the biggest impact is going to be felt in the balance sheets of the real estate companies developing the bayside ...

On February 17th, there was yet another incursion on the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. But this time it wasn't posturing nationalists on the Chinese or Japanese side. Instead, it was a bunch of ...

This might be the most bizarre advertising collaboration we've ever heard of... but one guaranteed to become a meme. Welsh-born, naturalized Japanese naturalist (get it?) CW Nicol has loaned his ...