Day: July 16, 2025

Summer Fall’s Yuzu Bubbles blends California sun with Japanese tradition for an unusual beverage.  While browsing the drink selections at our local Lawson the other day, we came across something…

After Denmark and France, now we have another positive news from Europe as two major open source projects join hands to offer open source alternatives to popular enterprise tools Jira…

Does this burger really taste like a Japanese rice bowl?   On 16 July, Lotteria launched a wild, limited-time menu item to mark Doyo no Ushi no Hi, Japan’s Midsummer Day…

Find out what US$6.70 gets you at this super popular 100-yen store. With rising prices giving us less for our yen these days, there’s never been a better time to…

Emile-Allain Séguy, better known as E.A. Séguy (1890-1985), was a prolific French designer. He was active during the Art Nouveau movement of the 1920s and created Papillons, a timeless collection…

Homecomings for Marner, Marchand and Toews. Rematches of the back-to-back Stanley Cup finalists. Check out next season's biggest games.

Thomas ran the Sharks’ various American Hockey League affiliates until 2012-13 and retired from the organization after the 2014-15 season.

We may have to say goodbye to Akihabara Building 1, but it’s also time to say hello to a brand-new GiGO arcade elsewhere in Tokyo. On Tuesday, we got the…

An unassuming cacao tree in Indonesia has made a unique connection to a high-tech artwork in China. Thanks to multimedia digital artist Thijs Biersteker, “ORIGIN” is a sculpture — a…

Personal electric fans are an imperfect solution to packed-train heat. It’s a hot, sticky summer in Japan this year, and that’s actually a fitting description of pretty much every summer…