If you’ve gone to see the ocean in Japan, you’ve likely seen hundreds of tetrapods hugging the beach. These are huge, four-legged, naturally interlocking concrete structures that are meant to dissipate the force of waves hitting the breakwater. Some Japanese say they disfigure the coastal areas but many are totally in love with the simple [...]
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Those who came to Japan in the late 80’s or early 90’s probably have fond memories of telephone cards. Those were the pre-Internet years when the only means of long-distance communication was the telephone; when one 1,000-yen telephone card will get you just a few minutes worth of time to talk to your family back [...]
09 Nov, 2008
3 award-winning Japanese designs: Fractal 23, Tenori-on & Wasara
Posted by: brb In: Design
A panel of judges from Japan’s design industry assembled by PEN magazine have named the magazine’s Creative Awards 2008-2009 winners, honoring cutting-edge design from around the world in various fields such as architecture, transport and consumer goods.
Among the winners are three Japanese designs: Fractal 23 by Takeshi Miyakawa for Best Design of Storage; Tenori-on by [...]
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- Crazy custom cars in Japan
- 10 awesome views of Tokyo’s Giant Gundam
- Tokyo’s giant Gundam is geared for battle
- Shohei Otomo’s intense illustration art
- iPhone meets Denso robotic arm, coolness ensues
- Tokyo: even the rest rooms are claustrophobic
- Import anime car overload in Tokyo
- Lunar probe Kaguya’s final shots of the Moon
- Hina: nifty little humanoid robot makes coffee — and a cute face while offering it up to you
- memory, a short film by Junichi Yamamoto
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Pink Tentacle
- Ultra Monster paintings by Toshio OkazakiA pair of action-packed Ultraman Monster paintings by Toshio Okazaki were published in Shōgakukan's 1979 edition of Ultra Kaiju (Shōgakukan Nyūmon Hyakka Series #97). [+] [+] Alien Guts, Windam, Gyango, Black End, Kingsaurus III, Bemstar Alien Icarus, Gomora, Muruchi, Alien Baltan, Alien Magma, Kemular Dancan, Giradorus, Astromons Gandar, Gabora, Alien Metron, Agira, Antlar, Seabozu, Woo [...]
Japan Probe
- Girls Generation in JapanThe Korean pop group Girls Generation came to Tokyo last week to give their first Japan concert. Thousands of fans attended their performances and they got a lot of media coverage: A few interesting things about them: Fans seem to really like their legs and their dancing. They have translated their group name into Japanese and use [...]
What Japan Thinks
- Aozora and electronic books in general in JapanIf you’re a learner of Japanese, or just wanting to get hold of classics of Japanese literature, the free repository Aozora is a good place to start, but judging by this survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into Aozora, it’s not that well-known. Demographics Over the 19th and 20th of August 2010 [...]
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