JAPAN TRENDS
 
Maker culture spaces, fab labs and hackerspaces have been springing up all over Tokyo in recent years, offering designers (both established professionals and aspiring amateurs) the chance to share ideas and skills, either through organized workshops or by dint of working in the sam...

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Japanese homes are not the largest of places so any appliance that combines more than one function is going to be popular.
Sharp’s Plasmacluster Mosquito Catcher Air Purifier Katori Kuusei does just that. It cleanses the air using Sharp’s patented Plasmacluster ion technology but a...

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JAPAN TODAY
 
TOKYO — Honda Motor Co on Wednesday announced plans to conduct demonstrations of ASIMO, its bipedal humanoid robot, at Narita International Airport over a one-week period from Monday, March 28 through Sunday, April 3.
This will be the first time for any airport in Japan to hold this...

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Clever design even takes into account how to keep you entertained during those long, lonely nights.
Just the other day we looked at the Crazy X, a cross-shaped four-person tent with a common area meeting space from Japanese camping equipment company Doppelganger Outdoor. But what if...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
MAIZURU, KYOTO PREF. – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended a graduation ceremony of the Japan Coast Guard School, a training school for future coast guard officers Saturday — the first time an incumbent prime minister attended the ceremony.
“Your seniors are engaged in warning and su...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Walking into Sign with Me, a soup cafe in Tokyo, customers are greeted not by the typical irasshaimase shouts of welcome, but sign language and gestures from the courteous staff.
The cafe’s hearing-impaired owner, Masahiro Yanagi, 43, used to be a facilitator for hiring disabled peo...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
By Kanta Ishida / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior SpecialistThe manga this week
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By Yipiao, Yujiro Koyama (Shueisha)
When I finished reading the manga featured this week, I was reminded of the famous phrase: “As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of ...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
I have never met a single person who didn’t cry during that first montage of UP, and I hope I never do. Pixar has consistently managed to combine the latest technology in computer animation with expert storytelling, creating fan favorites such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Ratatouill...

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THE JAPAN NEWS
 
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday revealed a plan to make Fukushima Prefecture a center for the development of hydrogen energy technology in Japan.
According to his plan, dubbed “Fukushima new energy society initiative,” facilities will be developed in the...

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JAPAN TRENDS
 
Nintendo is reaching back into its history for its latest release, bringing the 3DS LL handheld console out in a Super Famicom design.
The Super Famicom (marketed as Super NES outside Japan) was released in 1990 in Japan and defined gaming for a generation. The 16-bit game console ...

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