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ON DESIGN

Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 6, 2014
New furnishing for the home, plus the latest from Postalco
Postalco keeps your money safe
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON: DESIGN
Dec 2, 2013
Get ready for the wintry, cold and wet season
A coffee table with a twist
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Nov 4, 2013
Getting creative in the home
Let's take the tube
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 30, 2013
Construction work at the desk
Get ready for 2014 with new diaries, fun desk accesories and other interior goods
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 2, 2013
A lesson in line, last of the summer design needs, and Issey Miyake's bright ideas
'Line' is one of the most important elements of design. It defines, separates, decorates and gives life to a structure — and Shinn Asano's Sen furniture series couldn't utilize it any better.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON: DESIGN
Aug 5, 2013
Easy furniture and all things green
Rearranging furniture with the flip of a coin
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jul 2, 2013
Wood, paper, leather and a brolly that branches out into a leafy bough
Hang on to a brolly this summer
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jun 4, 2013
From paperclip holders and cityscape planters to corner lights and sustainable cameras
Even though we are moving — forcibly — toward the paperless office, the reality is that we still at some point find ourselves with piles of physical documents to deal with, which usually means a desktop covered in paper clips.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Apr 2, 2013
Wooden simplicity and pop-color spring fun
Paying tribute to traditional Japanese crafts with a touch of pop sensibility, Jin Kuramoto has produced a really attractive Japanese tea set.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 5, 2013
Keeping your desk in order: from bookish obsessions to tidy-up toys
A few cupfuls of things
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Feb 26, 2013
Clipping candlesticks, JetClean air, cooking fun, coat stands and kids's stuff
We love the idea of things that clip together, so Nendo's new Clip Collection for Italian brand Discipline immediately caught our attention.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 28, 2013
Living with birds, communicating with flowers and OnDesign favorites
Traditional chochin (Japanese paper lanterns) are beautiful, but that doesn't mean they can't also be modern and playful.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Dec 25, 2012
Stuck on a Good Design Award winner
The Good Design Award winners were announced last month and there are plenty of great ideas to take in — make sure to check out the GDA website to browse through all of the new ideas.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Nov 27, 2012
Double-A seating power
The AA Stool is the lovely result of a collaboration between Torafu Architects and the Ishinomaki Laboratory, a platform that brings together creators in one of the hardest-hit areas during last year's earthquake and tsunami, Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Oct 30, 2012
Tokyo Designers Week: Say hello to the best again
Something old, something new Halloween is here, which means Tokyo Designers Week is, too. The latter is, of course, what we're particularly interested in, and since you are reading this on the day it kicks off, we forego our regular product-recommendation format and instead offer some guidance on what...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 25, 2012
15.0% keeps ice cream cool
15.0%'s ice-cream spoons have already been featured in this column, and now they're being complemented by Naoki Terada's new Ice-Cream Cup.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Aug 28, 2012
Purifying plant power
The Airleaf Mini is an interesting product that makes use of your fan or air conditioner. It contains little beads filled with oils extracted from fir trees, which purifies air as it's blown through by cutting down the carbon dioxide and restricting production of oxygen radicals.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jul 31, 2012
Creative thinking inside the box: the Koloro Desk, FeltFelt folders and matching stationery
Personalized cubicle There's nothing enticing about working in a cubicle space, aside from a sense of privacy, but Torafu Architects have somehow made the cubicle a desired option for the home.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
May 29, 2012
A spring jewelry collection
Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design, who usually creates household items, has launched his first line of jewelry — and of course, it's not your average collection of fashion accessories. The series is titled "form of the function," and all the pieces are made from repurposed industrial components.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Apr 24, 2012
Rethinks that reboot familiar concepts
Pretty as a doll
Alerts issued for Tokyo area cities as Shanshan crawls across Japan
A submerged area of Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on Thursday after Typhoon Shanshan dumped torrential rain throughout the Kyushu region.
Typhoon Shanshan batters Kyushu ahead of likely landfall
A satellite image shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu on Wednesday afternoon
From tropical storm to 'violent': Japan’s typhoon classifications
A satellite image from Wednesday shows Typhoon Shanshan south of Kyushu as the storm was rapidly intensifying.
Tropical Storm Shanshan soaks Japan as flood and landslide risks rise
People walk in front of closed ticket gates for the Tokaido Shinkansen in Tokyo Station as train operations between Tokyo and Nagoya remain suspended due to Tropical Storm Shanshan on Saturday.
Japan scraps idea to woo women out of city with cash
Bureaucrats had envisioned payments of up to ¥600,000 for women who got married and settled outside of Tokyo, according to media reports.
Japan seeks another record-breaking defense budget for fiscal 2025
Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force hold a live-fire exercise at the GSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in May. Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking another record-breaking budget for fiscal 2025.
Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
Did you feel that? It may be time to refresh your disaster kits — and vocabulary.
A map of western Japan shows the Nankai Trough and, to its north, the hypocentral region where the energy for an earthquake is thought to be building.
This English schoolboy has big dreams of becoming yokozuna — and more
Nicholas Tarasenko trains at Minato stable in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on Tuesday. Tarasenko’s potential in sumo was made obvious when he won U18 gold in the 90-kg weight class at the 2023 Baruto Cup in Estonia despite being four years under the age limit and having only had a total of one hour of sumo training before the meet.
Kitakyushu clashes with academics over Meiji Era remains
Remnants of the first Moji station complex are located near the current Mojiko Station in the city of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.

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