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[japan] - Children take over at Tokyo theme park
Kidzania tokyo - Flickr: Search

Playgrounds For The Elderly: Fit In An Aging Society

[japan] - PBS Rough Cut: Japan: The Slow Life - Tune in, drop out, grow rice - Download movie (.mov 85mb)

The Slow Life

Slow Life and Semantic Architecture

Snail's pace

Japan Grows a Beard

A Design For (Slow) Life

Slow Movement - Wikipedia

[architecture] - Nakagin Capsule Tower meltdown. see also this 5 page gallery, and click the bottom 2 photos here.

Made In Japan apt building, Reversible Destiny Lofts, by Shusaku Arakawa, creator of The Site of Reversible Destiny Park mentioned earlier.

Ungodly uses for churches

TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, Eero Saarinen

the Elephant Tower in Bangkok, via this thread on ugly skyscrapers.

fruit bus stops

[fashion] - the sequel to the book Fruits just came out: Fresh Fruits. a "collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine". some samples, an overview article, a covershot, and an interview with the author Shoichi Aoki.

Soutien-gorge chamallow *cough*.

Hat head.

Braniff's Pucci Style

Fashion by Hussein Chalayan (more) (collections)

Shoewawa: Ugly Shoes and Manolo's The Gallery of The Horrors. (and of course, Go Fug Yourself, for the full body effect)

[robots] - Humanoid Robotics, Almir Heralic. get the movie. coo at its cuteness. grin at the rabid following the girl must surely now have. (via)

and some of its predecessors and peers:
Katsuhisa's SILF-H2
Robo Garage (movie)
Robovie-M
Sony QRIO
ZNP
and bigger brothers:
Fujitsu HOAP-2 (and just announced HOAP-3)
Honda Asimo (movie 8mb)
HRP-2
more at - plyojump.com

[games] - a metric whackload of TV video game commercials, primarily japanese, but also retro/foreign/US.

[toys] - Miniature Railroad in Garden. effusive japanese playground.

[japanese architecture] - miru-kenchiku

[transport] - 2003-10-25 - Tokyo Motor Show. click twice for fullsize.

[books] - Kodomo no kuni, illustrated Children's Books from 1920s Japan. (the cover illustration makes me think of sinplex)

[photography] - Lost in Japan

[banana] - Image: Yes, it's the Banana House

[photography] - Japan Media Review -- Camera phones changing the definition of picture-worthy (via caterina)

[design] - JDN Japan Designer's Map

[art] - art core japan

[architecture] - "Water/Glass" villa in Japan by Kengo Kuma

[video] - japanese clips. we need better tv.

[art] - EY Net Japanese Pottery Primer

[design] - unique japanese watches

[japan] - secret labyrinth/city?

[updated] - Japander.com

[design] - high drool-factor japanese portfolio. wonder-wall.

[japan] - rabbit madness.

[japan] - quirky goodness.

[fun] - japander

ooook!

"I feel an irresistible desire to wander, and go to Japan, where I will pass my youth, sitting under an almond tree, drinking almond tea out of a blue cup, and looking at a landscape without perspective" - Oscar Wilde (1882)

Gibson on japan. "... and truly, there is something in the quality of a good translation that can never be captured in the original.". heehee.

from the Journal of Mundane Behavior, a paper on Japanese social interaction in elevators, to add to my previous foray into things Japanese.

westerners (myself included) are endlessly fascinated by all things japanese. My recent reading discoveries include: AskTog tours Japan on $1000 a day, Eric Raymond takes a trip to the land of the rising sun, and Nerve.com has a special issue on sex in Japan. there's also sushi fortune telling, and the art of Chindogu for those with time to kill.

surreal erotic japanese craziness : Bam-b