Emmy award nominations for Marie Kondo and her Netflix show may spark joy
Decluttering guru Marie Kondo and her Netflix program "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo" have been nominated for two Primetime Emmy awards, the television academy said Tuesday. She is among "the widest array of first-time performer nominees since 2011," according to the Academy of Television Arts ...
Aging population spurs drive to tidy nation's cluttered homes
KonMari? Let's, by all means. If that's meaningless to you, you might want to ask yourself this question: Is my life clogged, cluttered? Marie Kondo is one of the world's most influential people. American weekly news magazine Time said so in 2015, conferring a rare distinction ...
Marie Kondo and Momo: The new faces of Japanese culture
Japanese soft power has seen two faces in 2019. One is that of tidying guru Marie Kondo. The other is the horrifying visage of Momo, an unsettling sculpture turned viral hoax. The two couldn't be more different — Kondo encourages viewers to de-clutter their closets, ...
Organizing guru Marie Kondo sparks plenty of joy on social media
A new year in Japan means it’s time for ōsōji, the annual cleaning of one’s home. And, right on schedule, Netflix has released “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” to give us all some inspiration — or make us feel guilty for putting it off. The eight-episode ...
Marie Kondo's new TV series cleans up
Marie Kondo is the type of person you wouldn't initially expect lots of people to go crazy over. In the cleaning consultant and best-selling author's new Netflix show, "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo," she simply lays out the basics of her "KonMari" method of ...
Taking minimalism to the next level
Ever since the release of Marie Kondo's 2011 bible on the Japanese art of decluttering, much of the developed world has been somewhat fixated on tidying up. Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" has been so influential over the past six years or so ...
Japan's decluttering guru Kondo now has an app for tidying up
The newest tool for internationally acclaimed organizing guru Marie Kondo in her global battle against messy rooms is an app. "My goal is to have as many people as possible who can get the job done in tidying up," she said in an interview after ...
'Konmari' decluttering book finally tops U.S. best-seller list
The English version of a Japanese book on how to declutter rooms has topped U.S. newspaper USA Today's weekly best-seller list.
There's just one problem with Marie Kondo's 'Spark Joy'
In "Spark Joy" Marie Kondo, the decluttering guru and publishing phenomenon, looks to build on the success of her debut, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," by more or less repeating herself. The only noticeable additions are cute illustrations revealing how to fold panties ...
Taking a longer view in defense of clutter
There's a worrying trend in Japan that is spreading throughout the world: that of throwing things out.
Novelist Murakami, tidying-up guru Kondo make Time's list of 100 influential people
Time magazine selected writer Haruki Murakami and tidying-up consultant Marie Kondo among the 100 most influential people in the world released Thursday. "He is a writer of great imagination and human sympathy," Yoko Ono writes in a profile for Murakami, who was selected in the ...
How KonMari's phenomenal book can help put your house in order
Before wrapping up my interview with Marie Kondo, who might well be world's foremost cleaning consultant, I promised I would put one of her de-cluttering lessons to the test prior to reviewing her book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up." And so here I ...
