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Made it!

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After 14 hours on the plane (and nearly 2 hours on the “Limo Bus”), 360 Team Japan is officially in Tokyo. We’re staying in the heart of Shibuya, the hip and happening “ground zero for youth culture.” (so says LP, and we’re happy to confirm!) Neon, crowds, aesthetic delights overwhelm (think “Lost in Translation”), especially […]

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Mysterious Mountain Monk

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Purikura

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Kawaii Kurt

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Street festival for drummers, breakdancers

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Tokyo Confidential

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As we walked down one of the narrow side streets of theTimes Square-ish entertainment district around the Shibuya train station, past swank rock clubs and ‘love hotels,’ we came upon an unlit, grimy, highly decorative stone-and-stucco facade that looked to be from the first third of the 20th century –an anomaly in a city where […]

Design for the (Japanese) World: Vol. 2

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More great design solutions that I wish we could bring back with us to the US: ITEM 1: Say you’re shopping in a department store with your toddler and you need to go to the bathroom… where do you stick the kid? TOTO, maker of the world’s most amazing (and complex) toilets offers another great […]

See Kurt Become a Beautiful Girl

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Blogger Lisa Katayama took Kurt to Tokyo’s girl haven: the sticker picture booth.