FUNKY FRUIT: young Japanese fashion in a blender
Are you ready to get funky? Fans of J-fashion brands like Listen Flavor, Candy Stripper, 390 Mart and Spinns are
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Saying goodbye to Swimmer: a final haul
In early June 2017, kawaii zakka chain Swimmer shocked everyone by announcing they’d be closing in January 2018. It wasn’t
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Have a nice claup: Japan’s funniest English-inspired brand names
Every day, we learn new names for things in Japanese. Some of them are… well, we don’t think anyone asked
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Genderless-kei bags and backpacks: do you know Anello?
The people of Osaka have a brand new bag. Trend-setting backpack and tote bag brand Anello recently opened their global flagship
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Blue glitter, healthy rice drinks, and ‘roulette face’: Japanese makeup and beauty trends for 2018
Fashions in Japan – especially in Harajuku and Shibuya – are often ahead of the curve. Think like… mori girls,
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Pay less for the label: second-hand Japanese designer goods online
We’ve been reading up on the fashion resale market. Why were we doing that, and not watching anime, or collecting
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I Luv Japanglish: crazy fun Japanese T-shirts
We’ve all lived in Japan for a while, but weird things written on T-shirts still make us do a double-take.
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Makeup and the munchies, with matcha: Gion Tsujiri food and cosmetics
The Kyoto brand Gion Tsujiri‘s known for using only high-grade Uji matcha in their desserts and snacks. Here’s the thing:
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Meccha suki ya nen: we pick the best Osaka goods
Tokyo and Osaka are like different worlds. (When you’re jetlagged, all of Japan feels weird.) Osaka souvenirs have their own
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Sugoi kawaii, kuso yabai: cool stuff to buy from Japan online
Japan can be weird. We should know, we live here. And we think that’s because this country’s got cool stuff
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