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Oftentimes, an artist's work superceds his name, and this rings particularly true in the world of Japanese manga, a format that evokes cheesy, gimmick...

07/17/08 - 0 comments

Uniqlo has yet to grow out of N.Y.C. (L.A.'s waiting!), but it is distinctly an international casual wear company now. It has long been known for its ...

07/16/08 - 0 comments

We all fondly remember Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli 1988 feature-length anime, My Neighbor Totoro. It was one of the first Japanese animations that ...

07/15/08 - 0 comments

Graniph has a pretty simple yet ingenious business plan. Every month, the Tokyo-based T-shirt company releases and sells thirty or so unique, limited-...

07/04/08 - 0 comments

The great Escalator Records of Tokyo, Japan, recently created an imprint label, Every Conversation, specifically for releasing Western music. Escalato...

06/30/08 - 0 comments

Through an ambitious and bizarre chain of events, we wound up flying a custom-made kite with Tokyo's Cornelius in front L.A.'s Disney Hall. The exp...

06/28/08 - 0 comments

Micke Thorsby, a.k.a. PMKFA is one interesting dude. The Stockholm, Sweden born, raised, and educated graphic designer has been based out of Tokyo sin...

06/23/08 - 0 comments

Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka are Japan's most notable cities, but the southern Honshu metropolis of Okayama is just as exciting and bustling as the main to...

06/11/08 - 0 comments

We all know that CDs in Japan cost five, ten, fifteen dollars more than U.S. discs, but the Japanese music distributors and record labels attempt to m...

06/03/08 - 0 comments

Over the year's of its existence, PingMag has repeatedly found interesting, unusual, and unexpected facets of Japanese culture to focus on. From unear...

05/29/08 - 0 comments