A Japanese study classified fish-shaped soy sauce containers into species [*]
I do enjoy squeezing those little fish-shaped soy sauce bottles when I have sushi.
Tag: Japan
Chiso is a 466-year old Japanese kimono house [*]
Chiso also has a gallery of around 20,000 historic fabrics, books, and paintings.
Emerald marine chocolate mint tart
Here's how you make a chocolate tart with an emerald marine jelly topping.
Tam Tam: the cutest baby pygmy hippo in Japan
How are pygmy hippos so adorable? HOW?!
Places I want to go when it's safe
Screw you, COVID-19! Let me go to my favourites cities in the world!
A samurai made out of a single piece of paper
If I came up against a samurai, I'd fold too.
Shoji Morimoto: a Tokyo "rent-a-person"
Aloneness isn't the same as loneliness but if you need someone, maybe this Japanese man can help.
The history of Toonami according to Toy Galaxy
Dig into the history of Toonami with Toy Galaxy and find out how it went from a daytime block of cartoons to a late-night staple for older viewers of anime.
Los Angeles’s Hidden Japanese Village
Peter Lai's giant treasure trove of Japanese collectibles can be found in a Los Angeles warehouse.
Manga Entertainment brings us Akira in 4K
Akira is a cornerstone of cult film and cyberpunk culture and now you can watch it in 4K in select cinemas across the country.
How to make a Taiwanese Castella
From Portugal to Japan and then to Taiwan, the Castella is a rich sponge cake that goes well with coffee or green tea. Here's a video recipe.
The Instagram account capturing Japanese facades
@ka_nai, an anonymous Instagram user, exhibits various facades in Japan in varying quality, shapes, and sizes.
Indo apples, samurai, and Japanese farmers
The Indo apple is Japan's first cultivated apple but how did it come to be? And how did the Fuji apple get so popular?
The night photography of Junya Watanabe
The Tokyo-based photographer captures a muted vibrancy of the Japanese city with their custom made presets.
Shape Grammars by Jannis Maroscheck is a book of shapes and systems
Maroscheck—a German graphic design student—created a design volume of shapes in response to a world dominated by AI.