Marketing, Lifestyle, Fashion, Gadgets and Product Innovations
2 Sep
We spotted this cool Proactiv Solution vending machine in a busy concourse near Yokohama station.
It’s quite large, with a touch-screen menu and another monitor displaying product information. Actually, it seems that Proactiv has produced the same kind of vendor overseas already but it was for the most part sadly neglected when we were passing through [...]
27 Aug
It’s one of the key sights of a Japanese summer: women shading their fair skin from the fierce sun with a parasol.
But has anyone seen any men? Personally, I’ve yet to catch one myself though I’m intrigued by a new fashion trend, the male parasol-user (日傘男子, higasa danshi).
This news might not surprise everyone, especially when [...]
25 Aug
Disgraced entrepreneur Takafumi Horie (aka Horiemon) has already surprised us recently with his entry into the porn business (yes, really).
Now the founder of Livedoor seems to be throwing his energies into a literary career! He’s already turned out some books of essays before and next up is fiction. His first novel is called, appropriately, Haikin [...]
23 Aug
J-Cast news is reporting that shimin noen (市民農園, or farms located near cities) have increased threefold over the last 15 years, up to 3,382 sites for fiscal 2008, with local governments and NPOs inundated with applications for certain areas.
[Pic via Sanukibito.com]
Around 70 per cent of these “farms” are 50 square meters, with the rental cost [...]
10 Aug
There’s been a real trend for “bijin” (beautiful girl) recently. This isn’t the professional model bijin but rather the “amateur” type, ordinary girls.
It’s no secret that we’ve taken, ahem, pride in reporting on this blog about the Bijin-Tokei, apologizing beauties website and provincial lasses being “saved” by cosmetics.
Visitors to regions around Japan perhaps have picked [...]