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This story is of musical discovery. As a teenager my desire to learn of the mystery of Japan grew from listening to Japan, the band. For a band ...

It's that time again: Ceatec, Japan's version of CES starts this week. Here's what to expect from this year's gadget extravaganza.

This is a montage promo of the last Design Festa vol 29. Design Festa is one wild weird weeked of an eclectic gathering of artistic chaos of artists, ...

When the average American film fan thinks of Japanese movies, they'll probably picture one of three things: either a samurai or a gangster -- Toshiro Mifune and his ...

An Asian black bear was shot dead at a bus stop in central Japan after it attacked and injured nine people. The bear seriously injured four men on Saturday ...

Key-value databases are catching fire these days. Memcached, Redis, Cassandra, Keyspace, Tokyo Tyrant, and a handful of others are surging in popularity, judging by the contents of my feed ...

The Nomiya restaurant is replacing the Hotel Everland on the roof of the Palais de Tokyo for one year. Designed by the artist Laurent Grasso ...

Here’s DJ Baby Yu’s escapade in Asia, summer of 2009 presented by Jaded Productions. Wenzhou, China – U-Party Shaghai, China – Bling ...

Mong Thongdee A boy with no official nationality who lives in Thailand captured third place in a Japanese paper aeroplane contest on Sunday after his tearful pleas ...

US ties, climate change focus of Hatoyama’s debut TOKYO ? Just five days in office, Japan’s prime minister was leaving Monday for his debut on the world stage, where he ...