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By Anna Yokoyama
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Japan's traditional, female-dominated art of flower arranging is returning to its masculine roots, for an entirely modern reason: it's become a way for male employees to prune away their stress.
Ikebana, or...
Major Japanese toilet maker Toto has created a talking commode. The new Neo model has a robotic lid that moves in time with its voice, which for some reason is male.
Neo features in a series of short video ads for the Japanese market, apparently as a...
November 17: Obama bows to Japanese emperor and heads to China. The way US President Barack Obama bowed before Japanese emperor has won millions of Japanese hearts as his respect for the ailing emperor looked genuine and not just a formality.
Obama...
"Art in Japan" is one of the view blogs that I have subscribed to the RSS feed for. While the layout is slightly cluttered, the writing style and overall pleasure of the blog largely make up for this. Worth reading.