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As it does annually DesignTide Tokyo gave us a peek at prototypes, celebrated innovation and showed us how elegant ideas are worth their weight in gold.
Click on the thumbnails below to see what turned our heads.
Photos by Mio Yamada
Tags: design, designtide, product design, Tokyo
Taking the pulse of trends, trend-watchers and trend-makers in Japan. more →
A new videogame, a fresh take on an old painting and kissing (timeless!) are among the top Twitter trends in Japan last week.
Advertising titan Dentsu and NTT DoCoMo take a stab a launching a Etsy-like site of homemade goodness.
Explore the world of friendly official accounts, the latest Nintendo news and Design Festa Vol. 37 in last week’s trendy hashtags.
In Itoigawa, Niigata, the government has begun subsidizing online dating service membership in an effort to pair up more locals.
K-pop, Sunday morning TV, and pre wrestling topics are among last week’s top Twitter hashtags in Japan.
Collect ‘em all, kids, and get flipbook-style animation of Mickey and friends.
Taro Aso — the man’s got style. Some call it “gang style.”
Feeling lost? Not sure which way to go online? Click this way.
Straying off the usual Street View path, Google does inside a school in Fukushima’s no-go zone.
It was an ordinary day in an Asakusa shopping arcade until more than 200 people spontaneously started dancing.
Big corps are getting playful and social while testing the waters of the big Facebook pond.
