JAPAN TRENDS
American street artist DAAS has produced an awesome mural in
Takatsuki City, a suburb of Osaka.
Part of the Takatsuki Art Expo 2015, the mural was first featured on Street Art News.
The mural is depicts haniwa, the terracotta clay figures that were installed with burial mounds in the...

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JAPAN TIMES
Japanese architectural practice — known to balance Western innovations, while preserving its unique traditional techniques and aesthetic — has attracted students, experts and fans for centuries.
But while it appeals to an international audience, some believe that Japan still lacks “ar...

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JAPAN TRENDS
Take three cups, add some clever drawing and cutting, plus a fair amount of skill… and then you can create your very own animated One-Punch Man comic, a sort of modern-day kamishibai-style rotating storybook.
That’s what Shinrashinge (@shin___geki) did earlier this month by stacking ...

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 SEOUL – The foreign ministers of Japan and South Korea announced an agreement Monday to resolve the decades-long impasse over Korean females who were forced into brothels run by the Imperial Japanese military before and during World War II.
Later in the day, following the foreign min...

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ROCKET NEWS
Now you can enjoy a vacation in cool anime style with Sailor Moon travel accessories in six character designs.
If you’ve ever dreamed of letting your hair down and dressing as your favourite Sailor Moon character while on your next getaway, but want to avoid curious looks from fellow ...

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What do you like to get from your coffee, relaxation or focus? Apparently, the type of beans can change the affect on your brain, but which does what?
Mmm…there’s nothing like the smell of a fresh cup o’ joe! That smell, however, is more than just a nice fragrance. Depending on the be...

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The Japanese government has faith in soft power, hence all the “cool Japan” campaigns.
This might be J-Pop. It might be anime. It might be cuisine.
But there’s another unusual source of “cool” in Japan — toilets.
While the actual “Japanese” toilets (i.e. squat toilets) as they were o...

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The winner of the design competition to find a replacement for the much-troubled New National Stadium is Proposal A, designed by Kengo Kuma.
The new stadium will be the prime venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games but has been one of several albatrosses around the necks of the Games ...

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The Franco-German artist Benoît Maubrey will create a unique loudspeaker torii shrine gate in Kobe this September as part of the Kobe Biennale.
Maubrey’s acoustic shrine gate will be installed in Meriken Park in the waterfront area of the cosmopolitan Kansai city.
Here’s what the org...

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 Drunken revellers, rejoice! This festive season you can snooze past your train stop all you like—the rescue bus has got you covered!
As we’ve discussed before, Japan’s trains tend to stop running a little on the early side. And, with so many commuters relying almost entirely on the t...

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