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Danielle Demetriou
Danielle Demetriou is a writer who swapped her native London for Tokyo in 2007. From art and design to business and fashion, she writes about all things Japan-related for international newspapers and magazines.
For Danielle Demetriou's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 28, 2019
Finding time in Tokujin Yoshioka's design
Tokujin Yoshioka's design for Homme Plisse Issey Miyake/Aoyama, Issey Miyake Homme Plisse's first flagship, includes gravity-defying clothing rails, raw concrete minimalism and a showstopping special pleating machine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jul 7, 2019
Shigeru Ban designs an escape from the pressures of urban life
Nature takes precedence in Shigeru Ban's unusual design for Shishi- Iwa House, a resort hotel in Karuizawa designed to encourage human interaction within luxury minimalism.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Jun 16, 2019
Mashiko: Pots of fun for kids and parents
Young children and ceramics are not an obvious mix — the former having an alarming tendency to break the latter the second they come into contact with one another. But there is one situation when combining the two works like magic: children's pottery classes.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Apr 28, 2019
Unko Museum: Nothing wrong with a little toilet humor
The Unko Museum, the world's first museum of poop, may be a flush of joy for kids, but is it fun for adults too?
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Apr 7, 2019
The Moomins find a second home in Japan
With almost 50 percent of the global 'Moomin market' in Japan, MoominValley Park has the ideal audience — nostalgic adults, kawaii fans and, of course, woodland-creature-loving kids.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Feb 17, 2019
The smooth way to go skiing with kids
Perhaps one of Japan's most child-friendly hotels, Risonare Yatsugatake is a mecca for young families. The guestrooms are spacious, staff are ever-patient and there are kids' menus in the restaurants.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Dec 16, 2018
Programming: A code for fun and games
The world of programming not only has countless educational benefits for kids, but it can also be an impressive creative outlet.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 2, 2018
Harri Koskinen: The Finnish connection
Industrial designer Harri Koskinen talks about his designs for the Iittala x Issey Miyake Home Collection and the affinity between Japanese and Finnish culture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Oct 7, 2018
Art classes can help boost your kids' creativity
Take your kids to an art class and let their imaginations run wild.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 30, 2018
Beijing showcases China's design potential
Chinese history and artisanship inspire Japanese creators at the first Design China Beijing fair
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Aug 19, 2018
The museum where the kids can run wild
Surreal as it sounds, the creation of personal digital crocodiles is a pretty typical activity in the world of teamLab — or more precisely, inside teamLab's new museum showcasing the work of the so-called 'ultra-technologist' art collective.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Jun 17, 2018
Ready to send the children out to work?
Perhaps one of the more innovative children's entertainment concepts, KidZania — which first launched in Mexico nearly 20 years ago — is a fictitious 'city' where kids can obtain a taste of being a grown up.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Apr 15, 2018
The sweet smell of an incense workshop success
Incense workshops can be a sweet-smelling way to teach kids about a traditional craft of Japan
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Feb 18, 2018
Washi workshop: Good on paper, better firsthand
"Mummy, where does paper come from?" This was a question recently asked by my young daughter that was easier to answer than her usual string of whats and whys ("Do insects cry?" and "Why were we born?" among them).
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jan 28, 2018
Eat, sleep and shop at Muji Hotel
It all feels faintly familiar. There are the neutral textiles, the pale wood furniture, the green plants, the clean-lined gadgets and an aesthetic that is as calming as it is minimal.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 17, 2017
A modern answer to your home prayers
With its white latticed facade, shiny walls of glass and monochrome interior lighting, passers-by could be forgiven for assuming that Wakabayashi Butsugu is a fashion flagship or contemporary interiors store.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Dec 17, 2017
Living it up at the Hilton — Disney style
The seemingly simple act of checking into a hotel can be a recipe for disaster with tired young children: cue tackling mundane paperwork while trying to preempt high-volume meltdowns or contain hyperactive runarounds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 12, 2017
It has been a year of new museums, galleries and inventive renovations
From polka-dot emporiums and oceanfront observatories to a new-generation castle museum, a raft of eclectic new cultural spaces have been showcased over the past year across Japan. Here are a few highlights that have either opened or been renovated across the country in recent months.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Oct 15, 2017
A crafty way to give the kids a creative workout
It's one of those fleeting parenting moments when my normally nonstop high-volume children are awake, but silent. The reason for this? They are studiously poring over a table covered with a neatly aligned assortment of wood cutouts — a cat, a witch, a star, a moon, a pumpkin — and, unusually quiet in concentration, they are brushing on thick pastel paints.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 10, 2017
Tokyo remodels the 'design event'
If Akio Aoki had his way, there would be one new word included in dictionaries across the globe: "Designart."
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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