A familiar sight in the (toilet-bowl-using) world over. But it could and ultimately will, be so much more. Expat discussions about toilets in Japan tend to center …



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A single glove bagged and posted to this Shimo Kitazawa wall. How to know whether an object is deliberately discarded, placed or accidentally lost?
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A couple of talks coming up – Street / Emotion at the Design and Emotion conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday and Something Witty with …
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The practice of wandering through a neighbourhood – in this case Tokyo’s Shimo Kitazawa en mass and picking up litter. Common enough in Japan, sometimes …
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The inner workings of the process revealed. Vehicles typically share the road with pedestrians in the Tokyo suburbs – with fleshy humans separated from the metal …
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Anti-smoking advertisement (posted by Japan Tobacco) raising awareness of the consequences of smoking. The extent to which different cultures care about the outcome once awareness …
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