Colorful, stylized kanji town logos
Pink Tentacle has posted a beautiful collection of stylized kanji logos for cities in Japan. This one is for Beppu, which happens to be my dad's home town.
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April 27, 2010
April 25, 2010
Colorful, surreal illustrations of Japanese girls
I love these illustrations by Zain7. (Thanks, Adam!)
April 24, 2010
More than sushi restaurant in Dubai
I found this sushi restaurant in Dubai. I did not try it.
April 23, 2010
Bicycle sharing service launches in Toyama
French advertising agency JCDecaux started a bike sharing system — like the one they have in Paris — in Toyama. It's a neat idea: there are 15 bicycle stations in Toyama with 10 bicycles each, and for 500 yen a month, you can take a bike from station to station for up to 30 minutes. This may help reduce bicycle parking congestion on sidewalks, although I'm not sure how it will help people commute from their homes to the station.
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Lisa Katayama's personal blog.
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- I write articles about culture, technology, and human rights for Wired, Popular Science, Fast Company, and the New York Times Magazine. I also produce radio segments for PRI's Studio360 and am a Correspondent for Boing Boing, one of Time Magazine's five most essential blogs of 2010.
In 2008, Chronicle published my book: Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan.
I am also the founder of The Tofu Project, a boutique program that helps Japanese entrepreneurs and creators think deeper, tell better stories, and go out into the world in a much bigger way. We work with companies like Mixi, Japan Airlines, and Salesforce.com.
Sometimes I try to explain Japanese culture on CNN, BBC, CBC, WSJ, ABC (so many acronyms!) or in person at places like the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, ETech, and Ignite!
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Recent Posts
- Today is A&PI HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Beautiful bright red bags made of fishermen's rope
- Mitsuru Koga's cool art using color pencils
- WE ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE: EPISODE 3
- The Salaryman Project, a collection of pretty photos of Japanese businessmen
- WE ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE: EPISODE 2
- WE ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE: EPISODE 1
- 48 different kinds of ojisan
- Sad cigarette ghost encourages people to smoke in designated areas
- Compilation of funny dubbed Hot Pepper commercials
