Author: William

As a promo for her new album ARTPOP in Japan, Lady Gaga and Universal Music Japan asked Japan's most prestigious sex doll maker, Orient Industry, to create the Gagadoll. Can you tell which is the ...

While the crowds were flocking to see the latest innovations in the Japanese automotive industry for the Tokyo Motor Show, there was another big car event in Odaiba last week. As Nissan and Toyota ...

Leading fashion magazine CanCam has been going for over thirty years and now it has finally got itself its own exclusive male model. After launching the careers and seeing immense success in the ...

In post-Fukushima Japan, we need more projects like this. While the LDP government slowly cranks up the return to full nuclear power, some Japanese corporations are being more realistic about the ...

Who are all the anti-nuclear power demonstrators? Emperor taboo-busting renegades like Taro Yamamoto? Just young hipsters or hardened veteran activists? No, there's plenty of ordinary folk who ...

Non-partisan Taro Yamamoto (38) has ignited a firestorm by handing a letter directly to the Emperor of Japan while he was carrying out official duties at a garden party hosted by the Imperial Couple ...

A recently announced index of television celebrity popularity analyzing data up to August by Video Research Ltd. showed some interesting trends as well as one more baffling development. The top ...

Can't get enough of your favorite (ex-)AKB48 starlet? Now you can a take a flight "inside" her vessel. Okay, enough with the puerile references, though AKB48 is hardly a stranger to dubious ...

Thank God for hipsters. When all else fails and the media is amok with already notorious reports (supported by dubious stats) that Japanese people apparently no longer have sex, you can always at ...

One of our favorite Japanese enterprises, Maywa Denki, has made a typically original and hilarious group music video to celebrate twenty years since it was founded. Maywa Denki is part music band, ...

It was the largest typhoon to hit Tokyo in ten years and, as expected, yesterday morning brought havoc to the city. The once-in-a-decade storm, Typhoon Wipha, was even worse in the Izu peninsular, ...

We wanted to share this video by W+K Tokyo Lab that showcases the people working in the "backstreets of the internet" in Japan. These include the creatives who sell off-kilter web tools in a ...

Japanese fashion retailing giant UNIQLO launched a new digital tool on October 1st. UNIQLO HairDo uses Pinterest to offer people a way to share examples of hair styles coordinated with UNIQLO's ...

First we had One-Man Karaoke in Kanda to meet the need of the thousands who want to sing solos, literally. (Be careful of the "acoustic howling" in the small booths, though.) Then we had Hitori, ...

No matter your income or status, instant noodles are a staple of any household in Japan. When all else fails, reach for the dried ramen and pour in the hot water... Bon appétit. But it's a ...