Early in 2010, JAPAN Style introduced a tadpole shaped digital musical instrument called “otamatone.” Although the tadpole hasn’t turned into a frog yet, it sure evolved in some ways. The…

Professional origami artist doesn’t always have to be Japanese. Sipho Mabona is a Swiss origami master who has designed origami for Japanese major companies’ promotion movies.     The video…

Are you ready to see more Ghibli inspired art? For this part 3, I collected photos and videos of works made by Japanese people. Here we go!   “Totoro Waiting…

One of the exciting news every media talks about now is the Japan women’s national foot ball team’s victory in the World Cup 2011. Japan’s female foot ball team is…

  Following to the Ghibli Art Videos Part 1, I want to share some Ghibli related videos. The part 2 is themed “DIY Totoro.” The videos below show handmade Totoros…

  If you are a fighting game fan, you may know or have heard of Daigo “the Beast” Umehara, who is a famous Japanese fighting-game player. He won many championships…

  Studio Ghibli’s animation films are very celebrated here in Japan. I hear that Ghibli has many overseas fans too. The works that are famous in other countries might be…

  I have watched a heartwarming music video which was made by exchange students studying in Japan. It is titled “Song for Japan -We Are With You,” and shared in…

Look at this picture! It is a vending machine, but not an ordinary vending machine…     It’s the website of a Japanese amusement park, Fuji-Q Highland, and each drink…

K-POP (Korean Pop) has been really popular in the past several years. First boy’s groups including TVXQ, BIGBANG, and 2PM. Now Japan is crazy about girl’s groups such as KARA…

This Niconicodouga (video sharing site) user creates beautiful paper dioramas of cities from Pokemon games. They are so detailed and reproduced the fictional cities accurately.     He calculates the…