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, ...

If you are already familiar with Snapchat, SeeSaw is nothing new. We could very much say that SeeSaw is a Japanese version of this photo messaging app that lets you decide how long your photos can be ...

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 ...

It must be really hard to be a smoker these days. I grew up in a household where smoking was a big part of daily disturbance. For example, my father used to be a heavy smoker and after every meal he ...

The Number Measuring Spoons are a set of brilliant measuring utensils for the kitchen that are both visually and functionally different. Transparent and ergonomic, the three resin spoons are for ...

For some people, the best reward in life are sweets. Pleasure-seeking as we all are, marathon runners are no exception. Sponsored by International Sports Marketing, Sweets Marathon might sound like a ...

On September 17th, Yahoo! Japan announced the launch of their new project, Hands on Search. Combining their 3-D database and digital printing technology, this search engine enables you to ...

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 ...

What's the most stupid thing you've ever done at a part-time job? If there was such competition, we would probably never run out of participants. This past summer, we saw a great number of young ...

In general, most Japanese people are known as hard workers. While work, by definition, is something we do to make a living, the great majority of salarymen in Japan seem to consider their work to be ...

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, ...