Japan’s food samples are known to be found in places other than restaurant display windows — you might see them inside someone’s jewelry box, or…

You can always count on Krispy Kreme to have a display window full of freshly baked, delicious doughnuts, but when you’re in Japan, you can…

For better or for worse, the world has sort of come to expect eccentric and over-the-top products from Japan, especially when it comes to bizarre…

You know the drill by now. Japan really can’t go for too long a stretch without concocting a usually unimaginable flavor combination just to mess…

A pinch of condiments goes a long way to making your dishes really shine. Many people in Japan love them. There have been imaginative things…

In a colossal warehouse in Saga Prefecture, over 100,000 articles of unsold Arita porcelain are packed into boxes and shelves, waiting for somebody to come…

Japanese model-maker and sculptor Y_Nakajima is no stranger to exploiting Thomas the Tank Engine’s innate creepiness factor. Hell, he even crafted an unholy Frankenstein’s monster…

We’ve seen self-watering animals planters that slurp water through straws, but the newest animal planters don’t even need to use tools for sustenance — they’re…

There are over 600 train platform fences in Japan currently. They prevent intoxicated people and young children from falling off onto the rails; they also…

As of 5AM local time, there had been reports on social media that a large number of people had gathered outside Tokyo Dome. Source: @yuuya_dt…

Japanese convenience stores are often heralded for having service that really renders their name as a massive understatement. While it may seem strange to a…

As is often the case with Detective Conan and Phoenix Wright from the Ace Attorney, a greater mystery lurks around this anime wire sculpture that…

Tokyo can be many things. Overwhelming, haunting, surreal, beautiful, busy. Those are among the many adjectives one could use to describe the sprawling metropolis with…

Exquisite as they are, kimonos as fashion wear have become obsolete — except for on special occasions, they are rarely worn by most people. But…

Norihiro Kato is an ordinary businessman by day, but when he’s not at the office, he creates incredible lamp aquariums as a hobby. Source: YouTube…