Gadgets Japanese overdesign fetish: Beetle 3-Way Highlighter Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Japanese store "rethinks" badges that indicate if employees are menstruating Mark Frauenfelder

Japan A day in the life of a 23-year-old Tokyo game programmer Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Watch: an evening stroll through the entertainment district of Osaka, Japan Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Tokyo Disneyland's new vinyl LP is AMAZING Cory Doctorow

music Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose David Pescovitz

Japan Checking to see if Japanese people like root beer Mark Frauenfelder

Japan This guy walks around Tokyo with a GoPro strapped on Mark Frauenfelder

fashion Meet the hairdresser to Japan’s sumo wrestling elite Mark Frauenfelder

movies Japanese film festival in Los Angeles this weekend, Nov 1-3, 2019 Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Japanese group wears hilarious "mundane" Halloween costumes over flashy ones Rusty Blazenhoff

security Japanese robot hotel chain ignored repeated warnings that its in-room “bed-facing” robots could be turned into spy devices Cory Doctorow

makers Look what I made for lovers of Kewpie mayonnaise Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Watch this Japanese man harvest salt from the sea using a traditional method Mark Frauenfelder

Art and Design My new fave Instagram account: miniature models of old Tokyo storefronts Mark Frauenfelder

Weird Video about Fukushima's exclusion zone, 8 years after disaster Mark Frauenfelder

Japan Impressive Japanese manga cosplay by pro cosplayer Leon Chiro Xeni Jardin

Food Japanese Kewpie Mayonnaise Mark Frauenfelder

Japan JOHN WILCOCK: Visiting Japan on Five Dollars a Day Ethan Persoff

Japan A fun thing to do in LA on 9/22/19: screening of The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) Mark Frauenfelder