Viewing Category : Japan
19 August 2009
Haute Japanese iPhone Cases!!
Konnichiwa!!
The Japanese have come to embrace the iPhone. The number of iPhones in circulation is estimated to have topped the 1 million mark quite some time ago, which triggered SoftBank BB (a sister company of Japan-exclusive iPhone provider SoftBank Mobile) to start offering something very Japanese and unique today: handmade iPhone …
17 August 2009
J-Pop Summit x New People :: 20th Century Boys
Earlier today I mentioned the Sugoi Azifug time my friend @MarkSFO and I had at J-Pop Summit 2009. The Food: Oishikatta (OHSOGOOD). The Entertainment: Sugokatta! (Awesome!). But one aspect of the Festival that totally caught me, and others I’m sure, by surprise was the appearance of the tottemo kirei …
17 August 2009
J-Pop Summit x New People :: Sugoi!!!
Just this past weekend, my friend @MarkSFO and I (TRU3 B37A) made our way to J-Pop Summit in Japantown, San Francisco. The Nouveau-Japantown celebration unveiled, quite possibly, the first Japanese Popular Culture (J-Pop) Shopping Centre ever to reach the US. The four-storied shopping complex (a basement counts, ya?), cleverly called …
20 July 2009
TrendSpotting :: the Hooded Tuxedo Vest
Comments OffEdopeno.com is hitting the streets and looking for the latest, hippest, and hautest styles and fashion hitting the streets today. We call it TrendSpotting. Every week, a new TrendSpot.
Today’s TrendSpot: the Hooded Tuxedo Vest. This new TrendSpot was first exhibited in a Japanese fashion show by designer Kazuhiro Takakura. The …
12 June 2009
Nihon :: Japan Trip 009
Some of you may have been wondering why I had been on hiatus for a while. And to put it simply – I was moving back from MN back to CA. I was living in the Twin Cities for about 3 years and just this past May, made the big …
18 November 2008
Cute 16-Year-Old Japanese Girl Pitcher Drafted by Pro Team
A 16-year-old schoolgirl is making a pitch to become the first woman to play professional baseball in Japan. High school student Eri Yoshida was drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a professional team in a new independent Japanese league that starts its first season in April.
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