Make Your Sweet-Toothed Sweetie Swoon on White Day With This Beautiful Crepe Bouquet
March 14th is known in Japan (as well as in China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam) as White Day. Just like her older…
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Eerie Station With Underground Passage To Narita Airport Looks Like A Place Time Forgot
We all know the feeling. Empty parking lots, highway rest stops, abandoned convenience stores. They all give us an eerie sensation due to the fact…
Carry Around Your Own “Anti-Rain A.T. Field” With These Elegant Evangelion Umbrellas
Maehara Kouei Shouten 前原光榮商店, makers of Western style umbrellas, now in their 70th year of business, are famous for producing elegant, sturdy umbrellas made with…
Smart Bonsai Follows You Around, Quotes Goethe, in TDK’s Vision of The Future
Bonsai. The ancient Japanese art of producing miniature trees in small containers. Contemplative and philosophical (the art was associated with Zen Buddhism in its early…
Umami Synergy: Kandou Olive Oil, Kimoto Sake & Organic Japanese Cuisine at Hitoshizuku
When you think of olive oil, Japanese cuisine doesn’t normally come to mind, let alone pairing with sake. However, as we discovered upon our visit…
Japanese Paper Artist Seiji Tsukimoto Creates Amazing Pop-Up Art With Movable Clockwork
Japan has no shortage of papercraft vituosos who can create wonderful objects of art. For example, we have seen intricate kirie papercutting by Shinobu Ohashi…
Artist “E wo kaku Peter” Imagines New Technologies Injected Into Objects From Japan’s Recent Past
Japanese freelance concept artist E wo kaku Peter has a unique flair for imagining technologies future and past paired together in realistic illustrations. His clear…
Hot Springs Town Nasushiobara’s Tasty Secret Is Out: You Can’t Keep This Under Wraps!
With the growing popularity of Instagram in Japan, pictures of cute and colorful desserts and mouth-watering dishes seem to be everywhere in social media. Photogenic…
This Harajuku Kiosk Has the Longest Snacks in Japan Conveniently in One Place
Totti Candy Factory’s giant rainbow cotton candies became an icon of Harajuku recently, attracting those in search of the most Instagrammable foods in Tokyo. After…
Meet The New Tokyo Olympic Mascots…Who Have Superhero Powers
On Wednesday, a committee of organizers announced the two official mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Ryo Taniguchi, a character designer and…
Japanese Artist’s Amazing Super-Realistic Wearable Animal Heads Are Out Of This World
It wasn’t too long ago that a Japanese art teacher and designer unleashed wearable, hyper-realistic gigantic felt cats heads that both wowed and terrified the…
Studio Ghibli And Anofuku Embroidery Collaboration Launches Official Apparel
Studio Ghibli enthusiasts have a lot of ways to show off their fandom as they look forward to the opening of what appears to be…
Easy and Comfy Hakama-style Roomwear Inspired By Japanese Artist
You might be familiar with the creative designs of Japanese brand Mocolle, a name which mixes the Japanese word for “fantasy” (mousou) with “collection” for…
Chabacco: Sticks of Powdered Green Tea Packaged Like Cigarettes
While green tea and products made with it continue to gain international attention, domestic consumption of simple green tea in Japanese households is sadly on…
Otaku Coin: The Cryptocurrency That Could Save the Otaku Industry – Interview (Part 1)
Since the end of 2017 when they first made the announcement, Japanese pop culture news site and online store Tokyo Otaku Mode (TOM) has been…