Through intimate conversations over old photobooks and home movies from the 1930s, sansedai (三世代) explores themes of identity and belonging as it follows the filmmaker’s 92-year-old grandmother’s journey growing up during war, […]
The Japanese mayor of the rural town of Meiwa has welcomed the benefits a newly opened Costco has brought to the local economy. The US big-box discounter has been offering higher pay […]
What does Japan’s electronic music scene really sound like?Jonas spent three weeks in Tokyo and Kyoto exploring record stores, synth shops, community radios, and underground clubs: on a mission to understand what […]
For his documentary Yoshida Dorm, director Jamie McCormack visits the elite Kyoto University to meet with a radical community fighting to maintain Japan’s oldest student accommodation. Built in 1913, the dorm is […]
In the Japanese city of Nara, Shingo Sakuma and Jin-Yi Liu have preserved an 18th century Shinto priest family’s residence on the edge of a primeval forest leading to the Kasugataisha Shrine. […]
Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada’s suburban Tokyo home brings together an effusion of living trees with a network of bare steel pipes, enfolding a shape-shifting design that encourages flow between the split-level interior […]
This is serious dedication – this is Eri Fukamachi, who has come all the way from Osaka, Japan for the Oasis gig tonight – and has made her own amazing themed kimono. […]
An iconic tiny Tokyo home, salvaged from the Nakagin Capsule Tower that was demolished in 2022, goes on display at the Museum of Modern Art exhibition in New York.
Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new short film, “Last Scene,” was shot entirely on iPhone 16 Pro.
🍚 Are you cooking rice today? If you use a rice cooker you have Yoshitada and Fumiko Minami to thank for that. When Yoshitada’s water-heating business started losing sales in the early […]
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