Naomi Pollock is an American author and architect who writes about design in Japan. She spent over three decades in Japan and lived in different parts of Tokyo: Shimouma, Nanpeidai,…
Imagine waking up in the morning and walking to a train station 10 minutes away to go to work. Now imagine that same 10-minute walk also includes a local pastry…
The Tokyo Bay eSG Project is the brainchild of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The upcoming project is a sustainable city built along the Tokyo Bay waterfront and central breakwater reclamation…
Japan is a country that has stunned the world with its impeccable disaster management capabilities as discussed in one of my previous articles. But there’s more than the trait of…
A romantic melancholy written and directed by Sofia Coppola tells a story about two people exploring themes of alienation and disconnection against a cultural backdrop in Japan. The story revolves…
The beginning of the past The basic needs of humans were food, clothing, and shelter. In the Stone Age period, when there were less of commodities and more peace, the…
Satoshi Kurosaki founded Apollo Architects & Associates in Tokyo, Japan, in the year 2000 with the vision of spawning ‘a rich spirituality’ within a space while keeping it impervious and…
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum was Japan’s first open-air museum when it initially opened in 1926. It is located in Ueno Park, which also has a zoo, a historical museum,…
Tokyo, Japan’s Toranomon-Azabudai District, is a large-scale new construction. The project will turn a vacant space into a vibrant mixed-use zone, making it an icon of the city. The project…
Sazo Idemitsu was 80 at the time when he founded the Idemitsu Museum of Arts in 1966. Over the course of more than 70 years, Sazo Idemitsu, who developed one…
Japan’s railway network, a symbol of evolution, steadily grew countrywide, becoming probably one of Japan’s most successful public infrastructure programs. Trains transported not only people but also ideas, dreams, and…
Review of Spirited Away – Persisting on the lack of limitations in animation, animated film writers tend to incorporate elaborate architectural settings as the backdrop of the story influenced by…