A little bit Dada, a little bit "only sold on television," intentionally useless inventions called Chindogu look like a bunch of plastic junk at first glance, but there’s more to it than that. ...
Japanese architecture may be most closely associated with natural, lightweight materials like wood and paper, but Japan is also home to some of the world’s most incredible concrete ...
Set within the beds of small white Japanese pickup trucks known as 'kei,' these gardens are so lush and complex, they look like they've been established for many years. In reality, each one had ...
Japan’s most beloved cartoon cat will take over a bullet train in her country of origin this summer, luring in locals and tourists alike with pink and white interiors and prime selfie ...
A notorious red light district and black market before it was swept and shut down by authorities in 2005, the cavernous space beneath an overpass in Yokohama sat empty for years until a social ...
Set in a traditional Beijing hutong, this cozy futuristic house has a shape-changing layout and employs construction techniques available for download on WikiHouse, an open-source architecture ...
A bronze bust of the late educator Hikoichi Orita was vandalized so often, Kyoto University administrators put it into storage – still, the students persisted. Orita-sensei played an ...
Brutalist buildings are known for their heft, often described as 'monstrosities,' demonized for their apparently intrinsic inability to relate to us on a human scale. They’re blocky and ...
We all want to be smiling when we go but if you're “going” at one of Okinawa, Japan's cute and creative public restrooms, grinning comes with the territory. Flickr member Okinawa ...
These ordinary looking stacks of square paper notes hold hidden surprises inside: each removed sheet reveals more and more of a secret Japanese structure, completely visible once all the pages ...
