Playground Ninjas..?!
May 7, 2012 – 1:19 pm | No Comment

Hello Japonista Fans!

Here is another awesome and silly video collaboration with Tux Team! This video will be featured at our Design Festa booth, together with the previous collaboration!

Video Credits:
Song used: “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them …

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Oishikaro?
September 3, 2010 – 10:40 am | No Comment

This is a very slangish term to happily mean – wasn’t it tasty? Coming from the root word, oishii and desho? -> daro? -> yaro? = oishii + yaro = oishikaro!
If you say or blurt …

Word of the Day: Shibui
May 13, 2010 – 5:43 am | No Comment

SHIBUI means quite fine, elegant, zen-like, minimal and almost opposite of the Western penchant for something colorful and attention-getting. It is a word used to described one’s taste if you are either a short-worded person …

Why the Japanese are naturally cute without trying hard to be one
May 13, 2010 – 5:35 am | No Comment
Why the Japanese are naturally cute without trying hard to be one

The secret sauce of why the Japanese are seemingly cute and kawaii creatures are because of our hypothesis of them having or possessing the radical innocent aura combined with the “mubobi” or harmless look being …

History Of The Japanese Tabi Shoes or Boots
May 13, 2010 – 3:32 am | One Comment
History Of The Japanese Tabi Shoes or Boots

The worldwide known Japanese Tabi or “Ninja Shoes” was invented by Ishibashi Tokujiro in 1923. At that time, his company, called Japanese Tabi, which developed the concept and rubber used to make the foot wear, …

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