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I have the afternoon hungries, and these photos aren’t helping. From Anna Gleeson, these wonderful images from a book she got in Tokyo.

“this is a really beautiful book i found last time i was in tokyo. photos of people with photos of their lunch. makes me want to run away to find a [...]

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I discovered something completely fun this morning, especially as we become increasingly Japan obsessed at our house, and are constantly talking about “things that will be good for our trip.” (Never mind that it’s a year away!)
This morning, I sent my son his allowance, in Yen. Japan-CC, or Japan Culture Club, lets you send any variety [...]

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I love the idea of Cool Ja-pon, a “book fair” happening now at the Yurindo bookstore in Akihabara.  The fair is a collection of 100 Japanese titles that don’t require you to read Japanese, and are “about niche topics that nobody outside of Japan possibly has ever written.”
One criteria for the book selection is that the [...]

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If you will be in the NYC area this weekend, be sure to check out the Korean Art Show, run in conjunction with Armory Arts Week in New York. A showcase for some of the terrific contemporary art being created in South Korea right now, I’m delighted to get another chance to see more of [...]

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Here at Japanistic, we’ve been fans of the magazine Giant Robot for years. I can’t imagine it not arriving in my mailbox every month. (I have to confess that they have a unique ability to make me angry too. Every time I think I’ve discovered a terrific new artist, they’ve inevitably gotten there first!) Despite [...]

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Courtesty of myfatpocket (I know–how awesome is that name?), a video designed to show the coiffure challenged how to style their hair the Japanese way. Okay, my coarse, curly hair would NOT look good this way, but I love the idea.

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This past June, the family and I went to South Korea for ten days. One of our favorite hot spots was the amazing Totoman Toy Museum in Insadong.

Tucked into a second story spot on the main drag, Totoman is easy to miss. Costing 1000 won for admittance, the “museum” is really one large room, crammed [...]

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This past summer, we visited Korea for two weeks and loved wandering the grocery stores, wondering what was inside many of the packages and trying things just for the heck of it.We particularly loved the way each counter had a theme, and a uniform to match!
Now, I can explore a Japanese grocery store, courtesy of [...]

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At our house, we spend much of our day stumbling over Legos and making sure the dog doesn’t chew any important new projects. In fact, I’m reluctant to let our son even see this video! And yet, how cool is this Lego boat? I can’t imagine how long it took to put this beauty together, or [...]

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I stumbled upon this today and found that there’s yet another reason to love Yoda. We all knew that Yoda kicked butt, but who thought he was actually a samurai master!
The language lesson, from the genius behind tofugu, makes me want to learn Japanese even more than I did before, even if just to impress [...]

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