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5 Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Tokyo While it may have started off as a bit of a faddish trend, the rise in the number of farmer’s …
Japan and Korea: Still Looking West to China? Japanese and Korean firms have been investing in China since the early 80s and 90s respectively; setting up factories and …
Glitch Knit Uses Data Glitches to Create Custom Fabrics If knitting is the domain of needles, yarn and sewing machines, then a digital fabrication project based in Tokyo wants to …
Asia’s Best Airports After several years of flying around Asia for tourism and business we decided to give our summary of the best …
  • 5 Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Tokyo0June 19, 2013

    5 Urban Agriculture Initiatives in Tokyo

    While it may have started off as a bit of a faddish trend, the rise in the number of farmer’s …
  • Japan and Korea: Still Looking West to China?0June 13, 2013

    Japan and Korea: Still Looking West to China?

    Japanese and Korean firms have been investing in China since the early 80s and 90s respectively; setting up factories and …
  • Glitch Knit Uses Data Glitches to Create Custom Fabrics0June 12, 2013

    Glitch Knit Uses Data Glitches to Create Custom Fabrics

    If knitting is the domain of needles, yarn and sewing machines, then a digital fabrication project based in Tokyo wants to …

  • Asia’s Best Airports1June 11, 2013

    Asia’s Best Airports

    After several years of flying around Asia for tourism and business we decided to give our summary of the best …
  • Digital Idol Gets a Physical Cafe0June 10, 2013

    Digital Idol Gets a Physical Cafe

    Since Crypton Future Media first released their vocal synthesiser application and its associated anime character way back in 2006, Hatsune …
  • Light up Tokyo with Scale-Model Projection Mapping0June 7, 2013

    Light up Tokyo with Scale-Model Projection Mapping

    Roppongi Hills has launched an interactive website called Tokyo City Symphony as part of a digital campaign that allows users to …

  • Global Innovation Rankings: Korea vs. Japan0June 6, 2013

    Global Innovation Rankings: Korea vs. Japan

    In this year’s Bloomberg’s Innovation Index Korea was ranked 2nd, whilst Japan came in at 6th place. Given the fact that Korean …
  • Projection Mapping on Robots in Akihabara0June 5, 2013

    Projection Mapping on Robots in Akihabara

    As part of their Technology Night and Day Event this weekend, Intel featured a 3D projection mapping project that utilised …
  • Bitcoins Donated in China Earthquake0June 4, 2013

    Bitcoins Donated in China Earthquake

    On April 20th 2013 China’s Sichuan Province was hit by an earthquake in Lushan County, Ya’an not too far from …

  • Japan’s Top Companies Look to the Future0June 3, 2013

    Japan’s Top Companies Look to the Future

    What do nineteen of Japan’s leading companies think will be the major problems facing society in 2030? A new exhibition …
  • Logbar Creates Social Drinking Economy2May 29, 2013

    Logbar Creates Social Drinking Economy

    If you hate having to make awkward small talk when you meet new people in a bar or party, Logbar …
  • PSY and Korean Soft Power2May 20, 2013

    PSY and Korean Soft Power

    Last time I checked PSY’s Gentleman MV had almost 330 million views on youtube and Gangnam style had more than 1.6 …

  • Taxis in Asia: Part Two3May 13, 2013

    Taxis in Asia: Part Two

    Following our previous post on Taxis in Asia’s most developed cities we decided to take the bumpier road and provide a round up …
  • Cosplay Business Cards2May 2, 2013

    Cosplay Business Cards

    Ever wondered how those crazily clad cosplayers promote themselves to each other? Well according to Nikkei’s Trendy just like most …
  • LINE Creates NFC Toy Smartphone for Kids0May 1, 2013

    LINE Creates NFC Toy Smartphone for Kids

    Popular smart phone messaging app LINE created by Naver Japan has collaborated with major Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy to create a range of …

  • Japanese High School Girls Explain Particle Physics0April 22, 2013

    Japanese High School Girls Explain Particle Physics

    …kind of. They’re at least starring in roles to promote it! As part of the bid to host the building …
  • E-Commerce in Rural China0April 18, 2013

    E-Commerce in Rural China

    E-commerce in China is massive and drastically expanding but not all of China’s online buyers and sellers are located in …
  • Taxis in Asia: Part One2April 9, 2013

    Taxis in Asia: Part One

    Having lived and travelled around different parts of Asia we thought it would be good to give a round-up of …

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