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Filmed by director henrik hansen and his team in 2010, Shinya Kimura founded Zero Engineering in Okazaki Japan in 1992. Initially his shop was named Repair Shop Chabo but the name was changed the following year to Zero Engineering.

So you are an hotshot rockstar Japanese architect, who specialises in doing beautiful minimal spaces with lots of natural light. Then comes along some wealthly Tokyo dude who has a thing for collecting exotic cars. He makes an interesting request: “I want to be able to fit nine supercars in my garage, and I want [...]

The unfortunately named ‘Yakuza’ is a digitally tattooed wooden table by Reddish Studio. It looks like it’s part of a collection. We have no idea what the ‘digital tattoo’ process involves, but it definitely looks pretty cool. It’s made out of veneered MDF with some kind of digital printing technology.

Do you know tatebanko? Well I’m pretty clued up on Japanese culture, but I had no idea what it was until recently. Apparently it is an almost forgotten art of creating scenic dioramas using paper and clever use of perspective. It was popular in Japan during the 17th Century (Edo Period) till the 19th century [...]

One of our favourite contemporary artists, Audrey Kawasaki is having her first solo show in Japan. You’d think, as famous as she is and a name like Kawasaki – she’d already been having shows there. But alas, she is based in L.A. Her show is going to be at Space Yui in Aoyama, Tokyo. If [...]

This is an upcoming World War II era animated action drama series which is being directed by two first-time Russian directors Misha Shprits and Aljosha Klimov, with production by acclaimed Studio 4°C, and funded by a Russian-Canadian company in Molot Entertainment. It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the [...]

The Handy Trax USB is built by a Tokyo-based DJ gear manufacturer Vestax, not only plays your records but also digitizes them via a USB connection. That’s technical terminology for ‘making mp3s’. It’s about as big as an A3 sized book, weighs about 2kg and comes with a sleek carry case – making it quite [...]

The liquid lamp by Kouichi Okamoto is as beautiful as it is fun to look at.  The illusion it creates and vector-esque lines make it quite an unusual lighting piece.  Comes in white and red and costs USD$199 and you can buy it here. The Liquid lamps, so named for a melting, flowing form, are [...]

The Japanese have always had a thing about masks, from the elaborate theatrical kabuki masks to the traditional  oni masks that keep away bad spirits (and also seem to end up as common tattoo designs in the west). More recently though – it’s all about face masks that keep away nasty germs and viruses. You [...]

Wow this is something pretty different. These are hand crafted motorcycles, each costing around a million us dollars. Artist and graphic designer Chicara Nagata spends about 7500hrs building them using just hand-tools and with only one assistants help. Although these are built with the pure intention of displaying them as works of art, apparently they [...]

I stumbled across this really interesting post about the existence of Batman in 1960′s Japan. Being of Japanese background and being a Batman buff – I really should have known this, but this was fascinating and new to me. Apparently in 1966 Jiro Kuwata (who’s most famous for writing the original 8 Man manga) was commissioned to [...]

It’s raining outside – so just kick back, relax and enjoy one of the best turntablists to ever come out of Japan. DJ Krush with Kemuri. It’s actually a pretty damn cool clip.

In the current world of photography, the old analogue guard are really being crushed by the way of digital. Polaroid ceased production this year, lomo is gettin a little old – it’s not looking great for analogue lovers. Well everywhere, except of course, Japan. Where the awesomely named company called Superheadz – released the blackbird,fly. [...]

Omurice (short for Omlette Rice) is as Japanese as you can get. It’s fairly simple food – basically tomato friend rice wrapped up in an omlette. Sometimes served with a side of meat or veggies. You usually find these in Japanese ‘family’ restaurants like Denny’s or Gusto’s. As a picky little child, when it came [...]

Okay I’m going to cop a lot of crap from my friends for this post. You see, I have a soft spot for rollerblading. And you kid’s who grew up in the 90′s on Airborne and Mighty Ducks would understand. Back then Rollerblading was the shit. It was fresh, it was stylish, it was aggressive. [...]