What happens when an irresistible force (the Hanshin Expressway) meets an immovable object (stubborn landowners)? You get the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, a hybrid highway-cum-skyscraper ...
When the Zombie Apocalypse finally arrives, the winding tower at Japan's abandoned Shime coal mine is where you want to be. This stark, partially moss-covered concrete colossus has been abandoned ...
Citizens of Osaka, Japan, are a peaceful lot not generally accustomed to seeing red. All that changed on the morning of July 25th when pedestrians on “Midosuji Sculpture Street” were greeted by ...
Can a giant robot save Japan? Yes, yes it can! Well, sort of... in the city of Kobe, a 50-ton statue of Gigantor standing nearly 60 ft tall was built to spark and symbolize the city's recovery in ...
Set along a curving street, this shimmering, bejeweled building rises like the first tier of an unfinished wedding cake, thickly frosted and set with sugary decorations. While, from its ...
We all know that drawing on the walls is a big no-no - well, at least according to parents, school officials, bosses and landlords - but artist Yosuke Goda has elevated wall drawings from mere ...
Gulliver's Kingdom Theme Park, built in the shadow of Japan's Mount Fuji with oodles of government stimulus money, was a sprawling white elephant that existed for only 10 years. Today there's ...
Though Japan's troubled nuclear plants have hogged the spotlight of late, atomic power only provides about 20% of the Asian nation's energy needs. Petroleum products provide much of the rest, and ...
In Japan, thousands of years of traditional culture collide with the almost futuristically modern vibe of larger cities like Tokyo to present a traveler's dream of varied experience. That fusion ...
In Japan, the rooms aren't much larger than coffins – tiny stacked pods with beds, a television, a radio and little else. But one company is seeking to take that 'capsule hotel' concept and ...
