Artist Takashi Murakami has directed the music video for virtual idol Hatsune Miku's song, "Last Night, Good Night (Re:Dialed)". It has also been re-mixed by Pharrell Williams, whose "Happy" has ...

It's nearly summer. The rainy season will soon be upon us, along with cockroaches, humidity and the usual host of great summer matsuri festivals. And loads of summer food. One of the best is ...

Mario to the rescue? The mustachioed plumber is going to become a toy figure -- no surprises there -- except that this is going to have NFC technology. Kyoto-based Nintendo are calling this ...

Jins (strictly speaking, J!NS), the Japanese spectacles brand, has launched JINS MEME, the world's first eyewear that lets you see yourself. The glasses measure tiredness and concentration based ...

Teapots are all well and good but they retain only around 30% of the nutrients from the tea leaves. Sharp spotted a way to deliver better cups of tea and in a very convenient way for the person ...

Everyone's raving about 3D printers these days. In Japan, one of the most popular ways to use the technology has been DMM's new service. However, with new technology and services, there are always ...

Bibliophile Shunsuke Mori wanted to have his own private library and he wanted others to enjoy it too. He came up with the Mori no Tosho Shitsu, Mori's Library, which will open in Shibuya this ...

Following the high-profile end of hostess magazine Koakuma now comes the closure of egg, another magazine that was a symbol of 1990s and 2000s fashion for teenaged and twenty-something females in ...

This article by Frances Maeda first appeared on Tokyo Cheapo. [caption id="attachment_4241" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Sanja Matsuri pic by andlun1, used under a Creative Commons ...

Everywhere you go at the moment you seem to hear the Pharrell Williams song "Happy". "Zero air-play, nothing. And the next thing you know, we put out the video on November 21 and all of a ...

walking bicycle club is a new brand of electric bicycle developed by automotive parts manufacturer Katayama Kogyo in cooperation with caliber designers like Shuwa Tei and Kenya Hara, and other ...

We've all had that awkward moment when long-forgotten pictures of an ex suddenly appear in a photo album you are browsing. Or when that box you'd forgotten about under the bed or at the back of the ...

While we all know Shibuya and Shinjuku for their great selection of bars and eateries (in between all the gazillions of chain places, of course), but what about some of the more tucked-away or lesser ...

Don't you just hate heading to a bar or café, only to find every seat in the place taken? What if you could get an update to your phone to let you know how many seats were currently available at ...

The second Canadian pop star to run afoul of Japan this week! Following Justin Bieber's innocent visit to a certain shrine in central Tokyo, now comes Avril Lavigne's music video where she pines for ...