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If you are looking to escape the heat and humidity of Japan, Hokkaido is the place to be in the summer. There are many places worth visiting and summer time is the perfect time for a lot of these places. This week I am sharing Hakodate with you.To be...
Topics: Hakodate, hokkaido, Photography, photos of Japan

Convenience stores are hoping that friendly/cool manga-style covers will get young people to read novels:Concerned over flagging book sales, especially among younger age groups, publishers are having popular manga artists illustrate the covers of novels..
Topics: Books, japan, manga

A special exhibit of design layouts from some of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibili’s animated films starts today at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo:Expression, background, movement-the Layout is the blueprint for the animation film, showing.
Topics: ghibili, japan, Otaku & Anime, ponyo on a cliff

A couple of weeks ago, BoingBoing blogged about a rather substantial guerilla gardening effort by a Colorado man, and about a month ago kirainet.com had a nice piece on a reclaimed strip of land in the middle of Tokyo. As a denizen of a Japanese urban...
Topics: General Japan

A little over a year has passed since China’s fake Disneyland was exposed and forced to clean up its act, but high profile examples of international trademark violations seem to still exist in Beijing. With two weeks to go until the start of the...
Topics: bejing, disney, General Japan, olympics, Technology