Aug 14 2007: Tokyo, August 15 2007 – JAPANESE STREETS starts today with a brand-new look and logo. The site has also been completely re-built to make it more user-friendly and consistent.
Aug 11 2007: The Tokyo Pride Parade of Saturday August 11 resembled a Japanese cosplay event. Lots of people spent a lot of effort, and money, to attract attention to the plight of sexual minorities
Aug 08 2007: Several interesting video clips showing fashion in Japan: Tokyo Girls Collection 2007 and TV commercials for the Japanese fashion magazines AneCan and CanCam.
Aug 08 2007: Love those really cool Japanese keitai (mobile phones)? Would love to have one, but don’t live in Japan? Now you can. A Japanese company sells miniature versions of some of Japan’s hottest keitai.
Aug 07 2007: The Spring Summer collection of the Japan Fashion Week will be held in Tokyo from August 29 through September 5. JapaneseStreets will be there again to tell you about Japan’s latest fashion trends.
Aug 07 2007: Japanese artist Ayako Ookubo uses manga, surreal characters and symbols in her creations. Recently Ookubo was interviewed by Tokyo Art Beat about the t-shirt she designed for the site.
Jul 18 2007: The past few years, young Japanese men are paying more and more attention to their hairstyles, skin care and scents. What only a few years ago would still have been seen as effected or feminine is now rapidly becoming standard.
Feb 18 2007: JapaneseStreets today attended West Power 2007, one of the larger cosplay events in West Japan. Some 80 photographs of this event have been uploaded to our photo section.
The second part of this two part series focuses on the people at Design Festa 8 comments
The first part of this two part series focuses on the art at Design Festa 4 comments
Dorothy Vacance—one of Tokyo’s hidden gems—is offering really cute embroidered patches featuring traditional images of Japan 0 comments
One of Tokyo’s most important fashion and design exhibitions, rooms, took place again this week. JAPANESE STREETS picked a few favorites 3 comments
Last year, Israel’s famous Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art exhibited over 100 of JAPANESE STREETS photographs 6 comments