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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
A longtime resident of Tokyo, Jean Snow lives and breathes design, pop culture, and gaming, sustained by an unhealthy addiction to magazines and frequent visits to his favorites cafes. He has reported on these obsessions for various online and offline publications.
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Get ready for 2014 with new diaries, fun desk accesories and other interior goods
"Line" is one of the most important elements of design. It defines, separates, decorates and gives life to a structure — and Shinn Asano's Sen furniture series couldn't utilize it any better.
Rearranging furniture with the flip of a coin Not all office workspaces are created equal — we can’t all have those luxury designer, expansive spaces. But small offices still need to deal with fluctuations in staff and changes in layout, no matter how minor. ...
Hang on to a brolly this summer Rainy season should be over, and it’ll soon be time to face the hot, sticky Japanese summer. But it’s still handy to have an umbrella at hand for those last few sudden downpours. Fumito Kogure and Shinya ...
Even though we are moving — forcibly — toward the paperless office, the reality is that we still at some point find ourselves with piles of physical documents to deal with, which usually means a desktop covered in paper clips. Clipnest not only helps ...
Paying tribute to traditional Japanese crafts with a touch of pop sensibility, Jin Kuramoto has produced a really attractive Japanese tea set.
A few cupfuls of things Here’s a neat little solution for storing all those miscellanous things you keep in your pockets or that tend to lie around. Ideaco’s Cuppo is a cup designed to be attached to a wall or other vertical surfaces. It’s ...
We love the idea of things that clip together, so Nendo’s new Clip Collection for Italian brand Discipline immediately caught our attention. The line includes a table with a glass top that appears to be “clipped” to its frame base and a coat rack ...
Traditional chochin (Japanese paper lanterns) are beautiful, but that doesn’t mean they can’t also be modern and playful.
The Good Design Award winners were announced last month and there are plenty of great ideas to take in — make sure to check out the GDA website to browse through all of the new ideas. One of our favorites has to be Colorworks’ Magnet ...
The AA Stool is the lovely result of a collaboration between Torafu Architects and the Ishinomaki Laboratory, a platform that brings together creators in one of the hardest-hit areas during last year’s earthquake and tsunami, Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture. Based on the concept of ...
Something old, something new Halloween is here, which means Tokyo Designers Week is, too. The latter is, of course, what we’re particularly interested in, and since you are reading this on the day it kicks off, we forego our regular product-recommendation format and instead ...