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INTERIOR DESIGN

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 18, 2021
Japanese creators step into the light with candle designs
Give your living space a warm, ambient touch with these three innovative lighting products.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 17, 2020
Life in your Japanese apartment doesn’t have to be a life sentence
Having trouble with working from home? Try delegating spaces and a few other tricks to maintain a work-life balance.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
May 26, 2019
New brands to delight design fans
From cat beds to toy DJ decks and sleek furniture, plenty of stylish goods are emerging from Japan's new brand lines.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 20, 2019
Downsized dwellings: Inside Tokyo's tiny living spaces
Twenty-five-year-old Sotaro Ito lives in a 9.46-square-meter apartment with a loft in the capital's retro-hip Koenji district.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Sep 22, 2018
Yuichiro Hori: Designing a new life in China
An early designing post in Shanghai leads to a full-time business move
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 29, 2018
'Paper sommelier' hopes to help revive Japan's washi industry
Yoshinao Sugihara, head of a traditional paper wholesaler in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, takes the use of washi paper to a new level in interior design.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 10, 2015
Home sweet home: Preserving the traditional Kanazawa townhouse
Traditional wooden townhouses called machiya could once be found throughout Japan and were especially common in cities such as Kyoto and Nara in Kansai, as well as Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
May 30, 2015
'Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings' reveals intricacies of Edo Period architecture and interiors
"Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings" was first published in 1886, less than two decades after the Meiji Restoration, a time when Japan reopened itself to the world. But the same openness that allowed Morse to document Japanese architecture as a living tradition would soon transform the urban landscape beyond recognition.
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Jun 12, 2014
Follow design tips to the letter
Recently, letters of the alphabet have become popular decorations in interior design, whether as symbols of the homeowner's inner thoughts or as simple motifs. They can add a modern and personal touch to a room, especially if hand-painted and self-designed — something that visitors are invited to do at the Room Bloom workshop in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward this month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Oct 24, 2013
Isetan Mitsukoshi Design Week
Isetan showcase lifestyle brands with its Designers Week product fair 'Hand Made By For Me.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
May 27, 2013
Can Etsy's crafty goodness be recycled in Japan?
Advertising titan Dentsu and NTT DoCoMo take a stab a launching a Etsy-like site of homemade goodness.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 12, 2013
Keep reading and add warmth to a room with books
I have noticed over the years that every so often magazines (and now blogs) feature beautiful spreads of book-filled rooms, with headlines like "Living With Books" or "The Pages of Our Lives." Usually the images feature poetic, far-off places where leather volumes fill 4.5-meter-tall, wood-paneled shelves, or sparse rooms with gauzy curtains and stacks of books on the floor, standing like architectural columns. As a book lover, I find these rooms transporting and inspirational — but totally out of touch. A growing number of people, I think, don't have books. After all, who wants those heavy, clunky volumes when you can store a seemingly endless library on a device that weighs less than a single paperback?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Oct 31, 2012
Tokyo Designers Week 2012
Let's all say Hello to new design at Tokyo Designers Week.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 3, 2012
Today's J-blip: Ikea pops up all over Cat Street
In a series of pop-ups, Ikea Japan gives city folk a taste of Swedish style.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Nov 2, 2010
What rolled in with the DesignTide
Interactivity is the keyword at this year's Design Tide showcase of sleek and sexy objects.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Nov 1, 2010
Superlative design blows into Tokyo
Stormy weather dented the schedule of Tokyo Designers Week but nothing could dampen the creativity on display.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.
An AI star seeks to bring self-driving cars to Japan by 2030
Japanese startup Turing plans to unveil a self-driving car with at least 30 minutes’ driving range next year and develop a fully autonomous car by 2030.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores
Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.

Podcast

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Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores
By Alex K.T. Martin

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