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For fine dining a la mode, Issey Miyake and kilns in Arita are putting Japanese aesthetics on the menu.

| RYU MURAKAMI

| RYU MURAKAMI

By Mio Yamada

Mar 5, 2016

Table dressing with Issey Miyake

It’s definitely a good year for fans. On March 16, a major exhibition of the designer’s work opens at the National Art Center, Tokyo, while in April, Taschen plans to release a monumental definitive book charting his entire career.

A prelude to this visual flood of fashion and design is the Iittala × Issey Miyake Homeware Collection, which launched globally in February.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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