Popular Japanese Anime : Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan is an amazing anime that excels in all areas. It’s artwork, design, storyboards, colouring is all first rate. The story is also large, complex and often very unpredictable. What makes it...
Japanese Popular Trends! What's New in Japan?
3D Latte and Grated Japanese Radish Art
When you order a latte at coffee shop, you can often see a heart or leaf shape swirled on top. However, you can now see more complicated latte art which looks more like monochrome...
Japanese Popular Animation for young girls (and men?) Pretty Cure : PreCure
Precure is a very popular animation series which started in 2004. This anime series targets young girls between ages 4~9 and it also has a sub-market, men aged 19~30. At the end of each...
Popular Japanese Online Fleet SLG game : Kantai Collection, Kancolle
Kancolle, stands for Kantai(Fleet) Collection. It is a SLG online browser game that Tsunogawa Games developed and administrates. The player becomes an admiral and collects the Kanmusu (Japanese Naval vessels that were used during...
TeamLab: Japanese Digital Creative Company
TeamLab was started by Toshiyuki Inoko, his best friend and three of his classmates from Tokyo university in 2000. Now, Toshiyuki’s company has grown to more than 300 employees. TeamLab is always brainstorming new...
Bosai theme park creator: Takanori Aiba
The Bonsai which are made by Takanori Aiba are very unique. These are not real Bonsai trees, instead, each piece is carefully crafted by Aiba. Takanori Aiba made his illustrations come to life with...
New Purikura (Japanese photo booths) makes your legs look longer, thiner and more beautiful
Purikura was released in 1995. Since then, it has gone through various modifications adding advanced camera filters that follow current beauty trends. One of the more recent trends was a filter that made your...
2013’s Top 10 Best Selling Cars in Japan
Unit sales of light cars (Kei Jidosha) have reached record highs in 2013. Improvements made to the mileage performance and safety are some of the factors contributing to sales. Also, the Kei Jidosha’s lower...
Ball Point Pen Artist : SHOHEI
Many of you have watched the famous anime movie “AKIRA“. This movie was directed by Katsuhiro Otomo in 1984. His son, SHOHEI, is also an artist. His style involves using ball point pens and...
Popular Japanese Air Band: Golden Bomber
Golden Bomber is a very unique and a very abnormal visual band. What makes Golden Bomber different from other bands is that they are an Air Band. They do not play instruments, the members...
