Muji + Lego x-mas collaboration
(discovered via JeanSnow.net)

“Unique Japanese Barcodes” (discovered via TheDieline.com)

I don’t know the back story for this photo/sculpture but it definitely caught my eye.

Nekotama Cats Livin sculpture
(via Ramuardo)

Typographic town logos in hiragana/katakana
(discovered via Pink Tentacle)

likeable:

Domo Invades 7-Eleven Stores
(via Notcot via Eat Me Daily)

“Extraordinary early 20th century book covers from Japan,” above c. 1928 
(discovered via A Journey Round My Skull)

Apartment Therapy asks “Would You Decorate with Fake Food?”
(photo from Kappabashi Market in Tokyo)

Painted Manhole Covers from Japan
(discovered via Toxel.com)

“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea” Exhibition at the Ghibli Museum from
May 23rd, 2009 through May 1st, 2010.

“By using simple animations drawn with a pencil, I want to control and move everything that appears within each frame.” Going back to the roots of animation, Hayao Miyazaki created the feature-length animation “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.” 

(via TAB Event)

Police in Japan use Wii to create wanted poster
(via CNET News)

Remembering Graphic Designer Shigeo Fukuda
(1932 – 2009)

Kengo Kuma Designs Houses For Muji
(via Tropolism)

Letter from Japan: I ♥ Novels:

“The cell-phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, is the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age. For a new form, it is remarkably robust. Maho i-Land, which is the largest cell-phone-novel site, carries more than a million titles, most of them by amateurs writing under screen handles, and all available for free…”

(via coudal via New Yorker, illustration by Adrian Tomine)

Decorated trains in Japan (via Pink Tentacle)