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Encode Ring makes customized jewelry with vocal waveform of voice message
A ring made from a voice. That’s what Encode Ring is proposing. With this new service you can get a ring designed with a bespoke visualization of a voice. A 3-second voice message is recorded and then...
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Roppongi Art Night 2016 starts tonight with full weekend of spectacle
Roppongi Art Night returns this weekend, switching from its usual March date to the autumn and this year taking place over three days and two nights rather than the regular single Saturday night....
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Beams music video charts 40 years of Tokyo fashion
Apparel brand Beams has produced a music video charting 40 years of Tokyo fashion and music culture. Forming one part of the Beams 40th anniversary project, Tokyo Culture Story, the video chronicles...
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Ambitious Shibuya redevelopment continues with two new towers
As if the already announced massive four-part redevelopment of the Shibuya Station area by Tokyu and JR East was not enough, Tokyu’s real estate and train subsidiaries have now finalized details for...
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Tokyo train campaign criticizes female passengers for putting on makeup
Tokyu Corporation, which operates several railway lines around Tokyo, has put up posters inside its trains trying to persuade female passengers not to put on or adjust their makeup. These posters are...
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Ginza Six, largest retail complex in Ginza ever, opens spring 2017
A new commercial complex will open in the Tokyo district of Ginza in April 2017. Ginza Six is built on the site of the old Matsuzakaya Ginza department store running along Chuo-dori and will feature 13...
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Alleged bribery exposed at heart of Japan Record Awards
The weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun has alleged that LDH bribed officials at the Japan Record Awards to secure the win last year for Sandaime J Soul Brothers and their song, Unfair World. The magazine...
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Piko Taro’s Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen inspires Tokyo cafe spin-off
Just when you thought the Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen viral phenomenon was fading away, along came a widely reported press conference at the FCCJ in Tokyo to boost the ratings, and now news that Piko...
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Drip Currymeshi Tokyo in Shibuya Station serves drip coffee-filtered curry...
Third-wave curry, anyone? Opening November 2nd on one of the Yamanote Line platforms at Shibuya Station, Drip Currymeshi Tokyo serves rice and curry roux (curry-meshi in Japanese) with hot water poured...
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Can new speed dating service in Japan with face masks save shy singles?
The overseas media likes perennially to run stories about Japan that bemoan its low birth rate and point to “sexless youth” as the prime cause. Whatever the truth to this situation, such sensationalism...
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Dragon Ball Tower Records cafes open in Tokyo, Osaka
This month marks 30 years since the first episode of the anime Dragon Ball was originally broadcast in Japan. So what better excuse is there for a few pop-up cafes in Japan’s two major cities? Three...
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Akita Prefecture promo video features dog-human hybrid music idols
The northern Japanese prefecture of Akita, which is famous for its eponymous canine breed, has produced a promotional music video with a song constructed entirely from the barking of Akita dogs. The...
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World Nomads visit “quirky, kooky, kinky” Tokyo
World Nomads recently paid a visit to Tokyo, creating a video with a decided focus on the “weird” side to Japan’s capital. In a whirlwind seven minutes, the video takes us from a hidden vibrator bar to...
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Vintage Taste retro television screen is perfect antidote to digital world
Before Netflix. Before even HBO. Take a step back in time to the early days of television with this Vintage Taste 20-inch LCD Japanese Retro Television Screen by Doshisha. It might look like one of...
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New trailer for Hollywood film version of Ghost in the Shell released
Another teaser trailer has been released for the Hollywood live-action film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. Before you get too excited, it’s still just a teaser at this point but offers a glimpse of...
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Designer bar The Bank reopens in prewar Kamakura bank branch with Wonderwall...
Masamichi Katayama’s Wonderwall has helped reopen the designer bar The Bank in the city of Kamakura, west of Tokyo. With interior design by Wonderwall, it has been restored to the way it was when it...
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Triumph zeitgeist bra pays tribute to Japanese women breaking the glass ceiling
Triumph’s latest “zeitgeist bra” is the “First Woman Bra”, which is inspired by freestyle wrestler Kaori Icho and politician Yuriko Koike, who this year became, respectively, the first female athlete...
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Parco opens new art, design and music event space in heart of Shibuya
Parco will open Gallery X By Parco, a new art space in Shibuya on December 9th. The temporary venue will host art, music and performance events in the heart of the commercial district. Gallery X By...
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Pompompurin Cafe is the cutest place to eat in Nagoya
Sanrio’s Pompompurin character may not be as famous and popular as Hello Kitty but the loveable yellow pooch continues his attempts to conquer Japan. After tempting commuters to hug columns in stations...
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Beppu mayor promises hot spring amusement park if video goes viral
We have noted before the trend for regional cities in Japan to produce promotional videos in the hope that they will go viral and ultimately rake in tourist yen. Some are successful, such as the Oita...
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