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Hayato Wakabayashi, “Vanishing”
A while ago I sent Hayato Wakabayashi a short email to see if he was free to meet up, and he wrote back, “sorry, there’s a typhoon in Ky....
27 Sep 6:06 pm  from  Street Level Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
RNA Top & Shorts with H&M Bag
19-year-old Eri is wearing her red hair in two twisted buns known as odango. Her shorts and cartoon t-shirt are from RNA, which is her favo....
27 Sep 6:03 pm  from  TokyoFashion.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Misaka Mikoto by Wave
Up for pre-order in Hobby Search and next in the Wave Beach Queens series is Misaka of Railgun fame in her frilly swimsuit glory. Manuf....
27 Sep 6:01 pm  from  The Banzai Effect   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Hell Freeze Over LG to finally enter the Japanese TV market!
Until Today it was IMPOSSIBLE to get any Korean Branded TVs in a Japan store, and strong from their leadership, Japanese TV Manufacturer w....
27 Sep 5:42 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Bye Bye SekuDai: Sexy Dynamite London is Dead
Another of Harajuku’s iconic youth fashion brands has shuttered. Earlier this year, we reported on the sudden closure of Bananafish. Now c....
27 Sep 5:29 pm  from  TokyoFashion.com   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Green-House add a real Key to your USB Key collection
Available in silver or gold an in 4GB only these Key shaped USB key is exactly what you need on your keychan. What else? That pretty much ....
27 Sep 5:29 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tokyo Game Show 2010
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27 Sep 5:17 pm  from  TokyoLuv   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Acer update its Aspire TimeLine X.
Acer announced in the USA their latest Aspire TimeLine X featuring Intel Latest Core i3, i5 and i7 CPU. The flagship Aspire TimelineX 183....
27 Sep 5:12 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
GLOW 2010
Met up a couple of friends and checked out the all-night art event GLOW that kicked off on the beach, the Santa Monica Pier and Palisades Pa....
27 Sep 5:08 pm  from  Geraldine Pang   [Profile]  [Recent] 
South Korean iPhone Sales Pass 1 Million
South Korean mobile telecom KT announced last week that iPhones sales in the country passed the one million line on August 16, nine months....
27 Sep 5:04 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Acer introduce 3 news Aspire with the AS5745, AS7745 and AS5742G in the USA
Available on Core i3, i5 and i7, our new Acer Aspire comes for the AS5745 andAS5745 with Nvidia new GeForce 400M and Nvidia Optimus techno....
27 Sep 4:53 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Giant Hornets Defeat Japanese Police Officers
A group of Japanese police officers stumbled upon a giant hornets’ nest at a park in Machida yesterday morning: There were conducting a ....
27 Sep 4:45 pm  from  Japan Probe   [Profile]  [Recent] 
McDonald’s Toy with Superpowers
I’ve not looked at a McDonald’s Happy Meal toy in Japan in over twenty years, and I’m sure they’re just as boring in the US, where....
27 Sep 4:41 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Abee Japan introduce its first Aluminum Jacket for iPhone 4.
Abee is the Japanese equivalent to Lian-Lee when it comes to aluminum case. Unfortunately not as famous overseas than the Taiwanese manufac....
27 Sep 4:25 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Teac SL-D920 Retro Radio CD Player
Teac, the Tokyo electronics company with fifty-seven years of history, will start selling the old stereo speaker radios you see in ’80s ....
27 Sep 4:24 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Won’t Miss #237 – “inscrutable culture”
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27 Sep 4:15 pm  from  1000 things about Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
This is FaceTime
This is also why I’m glad the iPod Touch does FaceTime too. Will get one for the grandparents and maybe one for home. All you need is a w....
27 Sep 4:06 pm  from  Kenleeswrites   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Slightly bleak Tokyo barbecue?
Tokyo doesn’t exactly have a glut of greenery, and a good deal of what there is has a ban on barbecues, so, when a spot of outdoor dining ....
27 Sep 4:06 pm  from  Tokyo Times   [Profile]  [Recent] 
"Adult Sweetness" KitKat
There are so many jokes a reviewer could make about an "adult" KitKat in terms of marital aids, pornography, etc., but as someone ....
27 Sep 4:00 pm  from  Japanese Snack Reviews   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sharp Introduces Galapagos E-Book Readers and Platform
Sharp reintroduced two new e-book readers, at a press conference in Shiba, Tokyo, today. To be put in stores in December, these e-book rea....
27 Sep 3:54 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Bokeh
Bokeh (暈け or ボケ) is a a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image. It refers ....
27 Sep 3:49 pm  from  Thumbnail Of Life   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Sanyo and NTT DoCoMo introduces the “Gorilla Plus” PND.
The Gorilla Plus is Sanyo latest portable GPS or PND. Featuring a 5” with LED Backlight Toushcreen and 8GB of Internal Memory, our new Go....
27 Sep 3:48 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Weekend in Kyoto
  Autumn has finally come to Japan and I was lucky to be able to enjoy the sunny, cooler weather in Kyoto - along with my trusty Nikon D-70....
27 Sep 3:26 pm  from  Visual Anthropology of Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tenmangu Shrine, Tsudera
The Tenmangu Shrine in the village of Tsudera is located a little off the Kibi Bike Path, and is a fairly standard, small, local shrine, but....
27 Sep 3:10 pm  from  Ojisan Jake   [Profile]  [Recent] 
50 ‘Love’ Songs, 27: Yuko Goto – Only One Only Love
50 ‘Love’ Songs: Yuko Goto - Only One Only Love: ....
27 Sep 2:49 pm  from  Muza-chan.net   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Lost in space
LOST IN SPACE was a popular brain-dead television program in the United States in the mid-1960s, based on the premise of a lost family of sp....
27 Sep 2:34 pm  from  ampontan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Azul Legenda (Kawasaki)
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27 Sep 2:00 pm  from  Japan Drivers Seat   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Ni-shi-mu-ku-samurai
Do you know which months do not have 31 days? Or do you have any way to know it quickly without checking it up with a calendar? I use this ....
27 Sep 1:41 pm  from  Heenai Heenai   [Profile]  [Recent] 
BioJapan 2010 World Business Forum
The BioJapan 2010 World Business Forum will start the day after tomorrow, September 29, for a three-day run at the Pacifico Yokohama Conve....
27 Sep 12:11 pm  from  Akihabara News   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Paris Hilton Flashes Before Your Eyes
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27 Sep 12:00 pm  from  Daily Bento   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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