The number of deaths and injuries today/yesterday on Tokyo’s roads – commonly found posted outside koban – the community police boxes.
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Hearts, Minds, Wallets
09 Mar 2008
In the battle for a presence in your wallet this prepaid card does well by maintaining an ultra-slimmed down credit card form factor. 4,000 Yen …
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Personal Supply Chains / Trust
08 Mar 2008
The black cat logo of the Kuro Neko Yamato delivery company. A compelling feature of their service is the ability to drop off and pick …
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Wrappers, Containers, Rituals
07 Mar 2008
Tape, extolling the value of fresh vegetables wrapped around a bunch of bananas.
Whilst the tape does an admirable job of keeping the bananas bunched how …
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Contextual Calendar
07 Mar 2008
Local Sangenjaya dentist chair now includes a retrofitted flat screen TV (below) used for showing DVDs to fearful punters (Wallace & Gromit on heavy rotation …
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A Light Extinguished
06 Mar 2008
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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