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Intelligent Park Chair by Nissan Is Self-Parking Office Furniture
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JAPAN TRENDS
Do you work in a lazy office? Don’t worry. Even office chairs can now self-park.
Nissan has created the Intelligent Park Chair, inspired by its Intelligent Parking Assist system for cars.
The furniture uses four motion cameras on the walls and wi-fi. Just command the chairs with a ...
Do you work in a lazy office? Don’t worry. Even office chairs can now self-park.
Nissan has created the Intelligent Park Chair, inspired by its Intelligent Parking Assist system for cars.
The furniture uses four motion cameras on the walls and wi-fi. Just command the chairs with a ...
- February 26, 2016
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Ringo Sheena and Hatsune Miku Join NHK Symphony Orchestra For Music Concert
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JAPAN TRENDS
NHK Symphony Orchestra is teaming up with music artists from across different styles and genres for a special concert on March 22nd at NHK Hall, Tokyo.
As part of the celebrations of 90 years since the orchestra was founded, the lineup of the music event will feature some very untr...
NHK Symphony Orchestra is teaming up with music artists from across different styles and genres for a special concert on March 22nd at NHK Hall, Tokyo.
As part of the celebrations of 90 years since the orchestra was founded, the lineup of the music event will feature some very untr...
- February 25, 2016
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Japan's Olympic Soccer Teams To Train in Nuclear Clean-up Zone
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JAPAN TIMES
TOKYO — Japan’s Olympic soccer teams will train for the Tokyo 2020 Games at a complex currently being used as a base for thousands of workers cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) said Monday that the Japanese men’s and women’s teams ...
TOKYO — Japan’s Olympic soccer teams will train for the Tokyo 2020 Games at a complex currently being used as a base for thousands of workers cleaning up the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Japan Football Association (JFA) said Monday that the Japanese men’s and women’s teams ...
- February 25, 2016
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Rilakkuma Cafe opening in Tokyo, With an Extra Side of Cuteness
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ROCKET NEWS
For a limited time during March and April, the Harajuku’s Rilakkuma Cafe in a Honey Forest Cafe will be serving up adorable Rilakkuma-inspired dishes and desserts.
While working for San-X, illustrator Aki Kondo created one of Japan’s most iconic characters, a lazy little bear named ...
For a limited time during March and April, the Harajuku’s Rilakkuma Cafe in a Honey Forest Cafe will be serving up adorable Rilakkuma-inspired dishes and desserts.
While working for San-X, illustrator Aki Kondo created one of Japan’s most iconic characters, a lazy little bear named ...
- February 24, 2016
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Give a Welcome Smooch to Tokyo’s Newest Natural-chocolate Shop
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JAPAN TIMES
Danish brand Summerbird Organic, which recently opened a new store in Aoyama (5-5-20 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku), makes 100 percent natural chocolate that it claims is at the same level of culinary excellence as Champagne or oysters.
Its signature dessert, the Cream Kiss (¥600), comes...
Danish brand Summerbird Organic, which recently opened a new store in Aoyama (5-5-20 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku), makes 100 percent natural chocolate that it claims is at the same level of culinary excellence as Champagne or oysters.
Its signature dessert, the Cream Kiss (¥600), comes...
- February 24, 2016
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Media Freedom in Japan Anchors Away
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ECONOMIST
Criticism Of Government Is Being Airbrushed Out Of News Shows
FOR a decade, millions of Japanese have tuned in to watch Ichiro Furutachi, the salty presenter of a popular evening news show, TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station”. But next month Mr Furutachi will be gone. He is one of three heavywei...
Criticism Of Government Is Being Airbrushed Out Of News Shows
FOR a decade, millions of Japanese have tuned in to watch Ichiro Furutachi, the salty presenter of a popular evening news show, TV Asahi’s “Hodo Station”. But next month Mr Furutachi will be gone. He is one of three heavywei...
- February 24, 2016
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As Residents And Reactors Age, Fukui’s Fortunes Fade
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THE JAPAN TIMES
OSAKA – On a gray winter day late last month alternating between rain and sleet, many in the Sea of Japan town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, were feeling sunny. For the restart of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama plant No. 3 reactor means not only a return to nuclear power,...
OSAKA – On a gray winter day late last month alternating between rain and sleet, many in the Sea of Japan town of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, were feeling sunny. For the restart of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama plant No. 3 reactor means not only a return to nuclear power,...
- February 23, 2016
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Art in Park Hotel Tokyo opens March
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JAPAN TRENDS
Tokyo has a new art fair opening next month and its first hotel-based one since the demise of Art@Agnes in 2009.
Art in Park Hotel Tokyo runs for two days from March 12th to March 13th, featuring 39 galleries exhibiting in the guest rooms of the hotel on the 26th and 27th floors, a...
Tokyo has a new art fair opening next month and its first hotel-based one since the demise of Art@Agnes in 2009.
Art in Park Hotel Tokyo runs for two days from March 12th to March 13th, featuring 39 galleries exhibiting in the guest rooms of the hotel on the 26th and 27th floors, a...
- February 23, 2016
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The Future Is (almost) Now With Mitsubishi’s Proposed “Aerial Display” Hologram Tech
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ROCKET NEWS
Mitsubishi says it’s coming close to perfecting the kind of floating “hologram” images seen in sci-fi films—and it hopes to introduce the “Aerial Display” technology in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The “holographic” performances of fictional android singer Hatsune Miku might se...
Mitsubishi says it’s coming close to perfecting the kind of floating “hologram” images seen in sci-fi films—and it hopes to introduce the “Aerial Display” technology in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The “holographic” performances of fictional android singer Hatsune Miku might se...
- February 23, 2016
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Hatsune Miku iDoll Is Singing, Dancing Mini Robot
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JAPAN TRENDS
Regular readers will recall the iDoll, a mini robotic doll prototype by Hakuhodo and Yukai Engineering.
In another effort to promote the prototype and expand its commercial prospects, the designers have now created a version with the Vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku.
The Hatsune Miku i...
Regular readers will recall the iDoll, a mini robotic doll prototype by Hakuhodo and Yukai Engineering.
In another effort to promote the prototype and expand its commercial prospects, the designers have now created a version with the Vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku.
The Hatsune Miku i...
- February 22, 2016
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