BY: SAMANTHA TAPP If you live in Japan and want a locally made fur coat, you’re out of luck. Animal activists in Japan can count 2016 as a huge success, as the last fur farm in Japan finally closed its doors…
Japan has created this tsunami simulation to raise awareness
By: Mariya Guzova In the wake of the devastating earthquakes suffered in Ecuador, coastal cities around the world are again reminded of the dangers they face with rising sea levels and earthquakes. A 9.0 magnitude Earthquake is due from the…
Japan is abstaining from doing the dirty, and it’s threatening the nation’s future
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Japan is rejecting a custom that comes as human nature to most. It is undeniable that Western advertising and much of the media is oversaturated with sexual content. Sex-obsessed content is perhaps the most prominent in…
Japanese art-form is home to the most bizarre “un-useless” products you never knew you needed
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ Follow Eric on Instagram Japan has long been an exporter of the most amazing creations to bless American culture. Aside from the music, food and zen philosophies, Japanese art has deeply influenced cultures around the globe, beginning…
Japan’s answer to a shortage of graveyard space is literally a stairway to heaven
BY: SHAY ANSARI The Japanese have created a futuristic cemetery where the dead can rest. In Tokyo, the price of graveyard space has soared and can go up to $100,000 USD per plot in central areas. Architect Kiyoshi Takeyama has…
Japan’s whaling industry will recommence killing for “science” next year
BY: AOIFE RYAN While the vast majority of the public presume the 1960s Save the Whales movement solved the plight of the largest mammal, Japan is planning on rolling out a virtual killing scheme next year in international waters. Who could…
If you want to live in Miyakejima, Japan you must carry a gas mask at all times (Photos)
BY: SINEAD MULHERN About 160 kilometres south of Tokyo is the town of Miyakejima, sitting at the base of the volcano that shares its name. This town is covered with a cloud of harmful sulphur dioxide gas, spewed into the…
Why indoor farms are the future of food production
BY: DANIEL KORN Food shortage is a bigger problem than a lot of people realize. At the current growth rate of 1.1% a year, the population will see a 30 per cent increase by 2050. That means there has to…
Photography of Tokyo in motion shows us the terrifying speed of modern life
BY: MATTHEW PILLSBURY Photographer Matthew Pillsbury dropped his tripod amidst the torrents of Tokyo’s cosmopolitan daily life. He created exposures to record up to 15 minutes of activity. He chose Tokyo because of the city’s astounding technological advances. The Japanese…
Welcome to this Japanese scarecrow town where dolls outnumber living people three to one
BY: SINEAD MULHERN A classroom is clean but bleak. Students slump in chairs. A mum teacher delivers no lesson. It’s not a lively scene, their insides are straw. Head to a bus stop, fruit stall or lonely corner in the…
A newly-constructed Japanese train travels 500km/hr by levitating above the tracks
BY: PILGRIM Japan recently constructed a train that travels at 500km/hr (311mph) by floating above the tracks using magnetic levitation—and it’s about to be opened for public use. The first 100 people ever recently had the opportunity to ride the…