Arma Bianca, the Japanese company that sells original anime and manga merchandise, has announced a new event featuring the popular series, Haikyū!! The Haikyū!! To…

Ocean Tea Bag has quite the reputation for high-quality blends of both herbal and non-herbal teas with elaborately detailed tea bags shaped like unusual deep…

Best Bridal will hold a Princess Mermaid Sweet Party dessert buffet inspired by Andersen’s fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, in May 2021. The image is…

Ikumimama Animal Doughnuts(or イクミママのどうぶつドーナツ/Ikumimama no Dōbutsu Dōnatsu in Japanese) probably has the most adorable treats in Japan. I remember first seeing their doughnuts on my friend’s…

A Japanese company dedicated to creating large-scale commercial and artistic projects using both the arts and technology, Rhizomatiks is famous for its association with the…

Before Godzilla was throwing down with King Kong, the King of the Monsters was also recently quietly becoming King of the Merchandise celebrating his 65th…

As tea and coffee drinkers very well know, stirring your drink well after you’ve added cream or sugar is often just the work of idle…

The Ranjatai (蘭奢待) is one of Japan’s great hidden national treasures, a priceless piece of aromatic agarwood that is the source of the emperor’s most…

When we interviewed YuNi a few months after her debut in May 2018, she was just beginning her journey, aiming to be the world’s top…

Traditional Japanese artistic disciplines like calligraphy, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging are loved and admired around the world. But why are they enveloped in…

Masato Hara 原正人, the legendary film producer who worked with Akira Kurosawa, Nagisa Oshima and other leading Japanese filmmakers in a seven-decade career, died of…

Children of all ages idolize various vocations throughout their education and youth. Rightly or wrongly, almost every elementary school student has a ready-made answer to…

At elementary schools in Japan, students partake in special classes to teach them the art of tanka 短歌. Tanka are short yet elegant poems consisting…

With everything from raindrop citrus mochi to cat-shaped cheesecakes using the “king of cheeses”, it’s easy and not exactly wrong to brand Tokyo as the…

Technology is bending the limits of what was formally thought to be impossible. Just seeing how the world responded to pandemic shutdowns made this clear….