Bouncing Red Ball

A number of great Japanese magazine cover designs from the early 1900s posted by Will Schofield, a rare books collector, in his wonderful blog A Journey Round My Skull.

These covers come from Bookcover Design in Japan 1910s-40s (ISBN 4-89444-426-7) edited by Masayo Matsubara. Published in 2005 by PIE Books, this incredible book is already out-of-print [...]

One of the few Japanese rock bands I like is Qomolangma Tomato and I hadn’t even heard of them until last week. That’s when I saw the cover artwork of their latest CD Camouflage , with (pink?) tentacles and slime in equal measure. How could you fail with a band name and cover art like [...]

If apocalyptic future will come through nuclear weapons, then only Japan (brought to its knees with two atomic bombs in the closing stages of World War II) has a first-hand experience of what it will look like.
Here Tokyo Genso (Tokyo Fantasy) gives us his images of Japan in a catastrophic future, with buildings in ruins [...]

Is it me or is there lately a trend to construct and showcase giant creatures and robots in Tokyo?
Tomorrow, another huge robot is coming to Tokyo.
Towering 7.2 meters (23.6 feet) above the crowd, Giant Torayan, a gigantic mechanical contraption that sings and dances and spews fire will debut (”wreck havoc” according to the video) in [...]

The Green Island Project: “What if the roads are covered with grass? What would people think of it? This project started with those ideas.”
And so we have these highly improbable yet visually arresting images of Tokyo covered with grass, from Shinjuku to Gotanda to Yoyogi. Yes, we can only imagine.
Gotanda, Tokyo

Shinagawa, Tokyo

Shinjuku, Tokyo

Yoyogi, Tokyo

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Autumn is my favorite season in Japan. The cool air in the morning, people wearing new fashion, the new possibilities of exploring the outdoors.
Here are colorful photos of outdoors in Japan that exemplifies the season of autumn. They were chosen with no particular criteria in mind. Just a pleasure to look at. Looking at these [...]