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CRAFTS

Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 19, 2013
Green festival to push 'stylish' conservation
Recycling doesn't have to be unfashionable. In fact, the Tokai Eco Festa in Nagakute, Aichi, places emphasis on the theme of "eco-stye," a continuing trend where fashion combines with environmental awareness. Patrons can visit more than 130 booths that feature clothes, art and handmade items that are...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 12, 2013
Sophistication is duo's craft
While the phrase "Cool Japan" seems to only get used for things that are kawaii (cute) and technologically forward, people tend to overlook the cool in handcrafted products.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
May 27, 2013
Can Etsy's crafty goodness be recycled in Japan?
Advertising titan Dentsu and NTT DoCoMo take a stab a launching a Etsy-like site of homemade goodness.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Oct 9, 2012
Today's J-blip: nezo art
Do Japanese babies dream of exotic art?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Apr 20, 2012
Kokeshi back in style with a new look
Once sinister-looking souvenirs, kokeshi make a comeback.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 29, 2011
Sake sisters are brewing it for themselves
For most of its thousand-year history, sake has been a man's world. Even as recently as 30 years ago, women were forbidden to enter some breweries, but today's pioneering lady brewers and brewery heads are teaching the industry to embrace its feminine side.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Feb 25, 2011
Techno Shugei weaves craft into circuitry
Homespun crafts and ingenuity meet DIY electronics and kawaii geekery in techno shugei.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.