Typhoon Trami (Typhoon No. 24) brought intense winds to Tokyo on the night of September 30th, though damage was worse outside the city, including three reported fatalities. The capital wasn't taking ...
The prolific and award-winning photographer Nobuyoshi Araki has become one of the first major cultural figures in Japan to become embroiled in the MeToo movement.
KaoRi, who was once frequently ...
First look at Dogo Onsenart 2018 hot spring resort art festival
February 21, 2018
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William
Following its successful debut in 2014, the site-specific festival Dogo Onsenart returns, transforming hotel and traditional Japanese inn rooms at the famous hot spring resort into art ...
Four years ago, the hot spring resort of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, was transformed into an art bonanza, with artists allowed to customized and redesign rooms in hotels in Dogo. Given the pedigree ...
Silent Karaoke Exercise Microphone
Noiseless voice training instrument
Earlier this year, we wrote about fashion guru Hiroshi Fujiwara's new project, The Park-In Ginza, a unique retail concept space located in the parking lot underneath the soon-to-be demolished Sony ...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
LP Hartley wrote those words as the opening of The Go-Between, a very English novel about very English themes.
But the message ...
Photographer Marco's first photography book "Spring Pedals by lovely hickey" will be released by Futabasha on November 7th. Featuring mostly portraits previously showcased by Marco on the website ...
Underwater Knee-High Girls: Now swimming onto your iPhone
October 23, 2014
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William
The "Underwater Knee-High Girls" series of aquatic slinky ladies by photographer Manabu Koga has already produced two photography books and a current photography exhibition. Now they can be swimming ...
Mount Fuji Eraser
The Mount Fuji Eraser is a fun and clever way to bring this icon of Japan into your home or work stationery set. As you use the cuboid eraser, the shape of Fuji gradually comes into view and you find yourself holding Japan's most famous peak.
There are advertising stunts, and then there are advertising stunts.
Japanese watch brand Citizen teamed up the Tokyo and Amsterdam branches of Wieden & Kennedy to challenge landscape photographer ...
Tokyo is a city that is a paradise to photographers; it opens up just so many opportunities for images -- the technology, lights, crowds, fashion, subcultures, architecture, businessmen, seasons, ...
The first one came out in July 2013 and caused quite a stir. Now comes the follow-up.
"Suichu Ni-so" ("underwater knee-high socks") is a photography series by Manabu Koga devoted to -- you've ...
"Toy Tokyo" is a new photography book by Manami Okazaki, a collection of 26 interviews and images.
New from Kingyo Books, "Toy Tokyo" features "the work of several photographers who are either ...
Hinyari Kakigori Cool Cat Bed
Shaved ice candy-shaped feline nest
Photographer Noriko Takasugi has devoted herself to going in search of modern-day "samurai" in the devastated region of Fukushima in northeast Japan.
Her "Fukushima Samurai" series, though, is far ...