Shopping Spotlight

Cool, new and unusual Japanese shops – and shopping experiences.

Nendoroids: 3D chibis you can totally boop

Anime and character figures can really vary. On one end of the scale, you’ve got the ones that defy physics. […]

People talk about ‘weird Japan’. You know the stuff. Pachinko places, conveyor belt sushi restaurants, department stores that feel like

Every so often, a manga suddenly goes BOOM. It jumps straight into modern Japanese pop culture, so quick the ink’s hardly

Ah, Tokyo. It’s where most people arrive in (and leave) Japan. If you take a bullet train, your trip might

“Ii no ka? Yahoo! Auctions!” Since 1998, Yahoo! has dominated online auction services in Japan. (I guess we’re writing a