#japan (59 links)
- On Taste and Congruence culture.ghost.io
There is a long-standing free-market complaint about Japan’s "over-investment" in public infrastructure, but in recent years, I’ve realized how clean and reliable subways, sidewalks, and public roads don't just make the city more livable, but more equitable, as well. Everyone can enjoy good public transportation, no matter their socioeconomic background (and many wealthy people ride the subway here). The train station near the San'ya “slum” is just as clean as the train station in posh Omotesando.
- Why Tokyo Works | Metropolis Japan metropolisjapan.com
- Doing Business In Japan | Kalzumeus Software kalzumeus.com
- Mono no aware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
<blockquote>Mono no aware (物の哀れ?), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō?), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.</blockquote>
- Buy Japanese Food | Japan Centre japancentre.com
- Missed Call: How the iPhone Conquered Japan - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
<blockquote>"Smartphones now account for 56.6% of all new mobile phones shipped in Japan, according to Tokyo-based market research firm MM Research Institute. Apple and Samsung accounted for more than 20% of the Japanese market in the past fiscal year, compared with five years ago, when there were almost no foreign brands."</blockquote>
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Expensive bags.
- Plain English Nuclear: Yet another Japan reactor post plainenglishnuclear.blogspot.com
That's better.
- Japanese Cooking/Cookery Lessons : Make Beautiful Healthy Dishes yukiskitchen.com
- Kigurumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
"Full-body animal pajama with hoods or hats styled after animals are also called Kigurumi, but do not have the same "costume" connotation as the full-body suits. They are worn non-commercially and are another form of Japanese street fashion. People who choose to wear kigurumi in public are often referred to as "kigurumin", and the consumer-level costumes they tend to wear are known as "disguise pajama"."
- Gizmodo - How to Get Emoji iPhone Emoticons For Free Without Jailbreaking - Iphone emoji free gizmodo.com
[If you] import a specially formatted vcard.vcf address book file with the proper Emojis already inside, you'll be able to type out Emojis a chunk at a time, and delete the ones you don't want. It's a gimpy way of doing it, but it's free.
- DIGITAL HARINEZUMI - デジタルハリネズミ - superheadz.com
This tiny movie camera will inspire filmmakers from around the world, with it's melancholic image quality. It also is the successor to the toy camera analog feel. The Digital Harinezumi is the camera that brings pleasure back to digital photography
- 100% 100per.com
Nice Japanese products. Crazy words. "100% is condition beyond reasons. Not the scheduled or harmonized world, but the world where we live is filled with the logically un-analyzable mysterious factors beyond the range of expression with words and numerical value."
- Recycle now - Furoshiki Japanese Wrapping recyclenow.com
More on Furoshiki from Recycle now.
- MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Use "Furoshiki" (cloth gift wrapping) blog.makezine.com
"The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan has a guide (PDF) on using cloth as opposed to paper for wrapping gifts to cut down on the wasted paper usually used in gift wrap." Next year.
The famously baffling metropolis is home to an experiment in ubiquitous computing that could transform the city
- Radiant Silvergun - Main Story emuxhaven.net
Now that it's done · · · · · I've begun to see the reason why we are here.
- Cool Hunting: backpacks coolhunting.com
- Kaikai Kiki Co.,Ltd. english.kaikaikiki.co.jp
Kaikai Kiki represents selected young artists Chiho Aoshima, Mr., Aya Takano, Chinatsu Ban, Mahomi Kunikata, and Rei Sato.
- Feng Sushi - Sushi Take away and delivery in London fengsushi.co.uk
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Is five portions of fruit and vegetables a day enough? guardian.co.uk
While we Brits struggle to meet our fruit and vegetable quota, in Japan they aim for an astonishing 17 portions daily. But who is right? And what counts anyway?
- Londonist: What to Order... In A Japanese Restaurant londonist.com
- Japan Journeys. Tailor made tours of Japan japanjourneys.co.uk
- Japanese Literature | Introduction speaking-japanese.com
Designed to make great works of Japanese literature accessible. It features four stories by Natsume Soseki, the father of modern Japanese literature, and three stories by Akutagawa Ryonosuke, the Japanese master of the short story.
- gilest.org : reportage/living-in-japan.html gilest.org
A while ago, I fell into conversation-by-email with an American working in in Japan as a graphic designer [...] I asked him, very casually, if he could tell me a bit about what life is like there.
- Shoji-Shop.com -Japanese High Quality Shoji Paper shoji-shop.com
- The Japanese shop, Japanese gifts, kimonos, origami, sushi, clothing thejapaneseshop.co.uk
- The Japanese Paper Place - Retail and Wholesale Supplier of Fine Japanese Papers japanesepaperplace.com
The world's largest selection of fine Japanese papers.
- Hiromi Paper International, Inc. hiromipaper.com
"Devoted to the creation of a greater rapport between Japanese papermakers, printers, artists, conservators, designers and bookmakers, while developing new directions and a deeper understanding of Japanese papers or "WASHI"."
- : : O G I g r a p h i c s : : ogigraphics.com
- Minamoto Kitchoan kitchoan.com
Providing a relaxing and warm Japanese atmosphere that reflects the characteristics of the seasons, along with culture-rich confectionaries that do much to communicate our Japanese heritage.
- Oriental gifts and ornaments exoticandoriental.co.uk
- JAPANESE GALLERY japanesegallery.co.uk
Est.1978, one of the top specialists in Japanese art.
- Japanorama l-m-c.org.uk
Excellent gig from a few years back - new japanese weirdness. Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M were particularly good.
Japan travel guide, information on Japan and Japanese culture.
- :: Metropolis Tokyo :: Japan's No.1 English Magazine metropolis.japantoday.com
- Japanese Food & Restaurant Guide japanweb.co.uk
- Observer | Modern boys and mobile girls observer.guardian.co.uk
by William Gibson, Sunday April 1, 2001
- Bright Lights Film Journal | Japanese Cinema brightlightsfilm.com
- Wired 9.09: My Own Private Tokyo wired.com
By William Gibson (Sept 2001)
- Welcome to the Otaku mail order shopping site otaku.co.uk