Category: LIFESTYLE

Hobonichi has opened Tobichi, a store and gallery in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo, where it will hold special events and sell its merchandise. It does has a rather unfortunate name in English (the "bichi" ...

The results have been announced of a survey by Video Research of five commercial TV broadcasters in Kanto (the area including Tokyo and Yokohama), Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe etc) and Nagoya. The ...

The Japanese summer is very hot -- hot and humid. The up side of this is you get great festivals and fireworks, and also yukata, outdoor music events, and trips to the beach. But trying to go ...

This article by Yulia Mizushima first appeared on Tokyo Cheapo. Takeshita-dori pic by beibaoke / Shutterstock.com When I first moved to Tokyo, I was living on ¥1,000 a day while renting half ...

It garnered headlines worldwide and made a fringe figure the talk of the town. The arrest of Megumi Igarashi (Rokudenshi-ko) on July 12th ostensibly for "distributing obscene materials" after she ...

Shibuya is like a hydra. Just when you think you have it sussed, along comes yet another shopping arcade or mall to confuse you. Earlier this year Tokyu opened the Shibuya Chikamichi Lounge ...

Two things Japan is famous for just came crashing together big time: idols and robots. AKB48's fans have become notorious for spending vast amounts of time and money on merchandise and tributes to ...

Here is a documentary called Emoji Among Us, now available on Dissolve. This short documentary (more like a trailer for a documentary) declares that emoji have become infused in our lives and ...

We remember the good ol' days when every tech blog was keen-eyed for the latest development from Japan, when mainstream newspapers at least partly seemed to take Japanese fashion seriously, and... ...

A recruitment campaign ad fronted by a sweet-looking, innocent pop music idol? Only in Japan. "You and Peace" declares Haruka Shimazaki, the 20-year-old pop singer and member of idol group ...

Sumitomo 3M has created a special website for creating fashion items online, controlled by the volume of your voice. The "Scotch Summer Holidays Family Kousaku Paper Fashion Kids" (or just Scotch ...

We've already seen the Animal Face Pack, which took animals from Tokyo's famous Ueno Zoo and turned them into beauty tools. Now how about taking this fashion idea even further? Zoo Jeans is a ...

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon in the early summer, albeit on a weekend marked by many protests against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial collective self-defense law changes. But the ...

People are marrying later and having less children. In Japan people are turning more and more to "marriage consultation" and "spouse hunting" services to find that special someone. Although these ...

UNIQLO's spin-off casual wear brand GU has opened a major new branch at Parco Part 3 in Shibuya. In fitting with its name GU -- pronounced "gee you", a play on the word jiyu in Japan meaning ...