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Earlier this year, japan trends website wrote about fashion guru Hiroshi Fujiwara’s new project, The Park-In Ginza, a unique retail concept space located in the parking lot underneath the soon-to-be demolished Sony Building in Ginza.
Not satisfied with its bold use of space and geo...

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This week, a major Studio Ghibli retrospective exhibition opens in Roppongi Hills, covering all of the studio’s 22 anime feature films.
The Ghibli Expo runs July 7th to September 11th, and includes sketches, previously unseen materials, posters, and even a recreation of what inside...

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After previous successes such as Infinity of Flowers with Gucci and Night Wonder Aquarium, teamLab has now teamed up with online retailer DMM and Fuji TV to create a new major summer attraction in Tokyo Bay.
“DMM.Planets art by teamLab” has a somewhat Japanese-English title and ope...

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It’s the gift that keeps on giving: Tokyo’s station billboard promotions.
We continue to see interesting examples, especially in Shinjuku, from the “huggable” to the “scratchable”.
Many of these interactive and unusual billboards have involved the game industry as part of promotion...

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Celebrating 45 years of the work of fashion designer, the rather too obviously titled “Miyake Issey Exhibition: The Work of Miyake Issey” at the National Art Center, Tokyo runs until June 13th.
Like architecture, exhibiting fashion is often a tricky affair to get right and to tackl...

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Kumamoto Prefecture mascot Kumamon is surrounded by children, who happily touch the popular character, at Choyo Nursery School in the village of Minami-Aso in the prefecture on Friday morning.
Until Wednesday, Kumamon had refrained from appearing in public sin...

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Last week we wrote about Rakuten’s new drone delivery service for golf courses. And now comes another great example of how people in Japan are showing us what drones can do. Hopefully the government is also watching and learning that drones are exciting new tools that can be exploi...

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Japan continues to negotiate its evolving relationship with drones: fun consumer toys, provider of exciting new services, or dangerous tools for potential terrorists?
For the upcoming G7 summit in Japan, police announced “anti-drone” security measures where they will use drones wit...

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TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The organizing committee of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games announced Monday the selection of new emblem designs, based on checkered patterns, for the 2020 Games, eight months after the initial designs were withdrawn after allegations of plagiaris...

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The Mori Art Museum opened the current iteration of its “Roppongi Crossing” series of exhibitions. Organized every three years, the exhibition is the largest of its kind in Japan devoted to presenting the latest currents in Japanese contemporary art.
Running until July 10th at the ...

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