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• Culture

  

  Intermission: Tokyo Sky Dive

  This video (after the jump) does a really nice job of making Japan seem like the future. Thanks, Will.

  by Patrick James

• Cities

  

  Video: Aaron Rose Explores Berlin's Famous Kreuzberg Neighborhood

  Director Aaron Rose explores West Berlin's Kreuzberg neighborhood with an iPhone 4 HD camera.

  by Kyla Fullenwider

• News

  

  Junkan: Fixies from Tokyo to Osaka

  You know what's cooler than riding your fixed gear bike through Williamsburg? Riding it through rural Japan. In the summer of 2009, 13...

  by GOOD

• Cities

  

  Microrentals and "Dead Space" in Tokyo

  From compact electronics to capsule hotels, Japan knows how to economize when it comes to space. The latest example? Microrentals. From The Wall...

  by Andrew Price

• Technology

  

  Behold Tokyo's New Augmented Reality Architecture

  Behold the N Building, a new structure in a Tokyo shopping district that at first glance looks kind of like a giant Tetris screen until you...

  by Siobhan O'Connor

• Design

  

  Fantastic Vintage Subway Etiquette Posters from Tokyo

  From Pink Tentacle comes this colorful image, "Three Annoying Train Monsters," a vintage subway-etiquette poster from Tokyo that warns riders...

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  Here's How to Avoid Roses That Support Violent Labor Abuses This Valentine's Day [Updated]

  Here's how to make sure your significant others' Valentine's Day roses didn't go toward labor abuses on flower farms in the third world.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Environment

  

  If Tokyo Gets the Olympics, They'll Build This Thing

  Who cares what Obama and Oprah think? If Tokyo gets the 2016 Olympic games, they'll build this stadium powered entirely by the sun. In fact,...

  by Andrew Price

• News

  

  A Real-world Test of Better Place Car Battery Swapping in Tokyo

  Better Place (which we've covered here before) is an electric car company with an interesting model. To solve the infamous "range problem"—the...

  by Andrew Price

• Environment

  

  Japan Will Build Blazingly Fast Tokyo to Osaka Maglev Train

  Imagine making it from New York to D.C. in 45 minutes. That's how quickly Japan's maglev train will make it from Tokyo to Nagoya.

  by Sarah Laskow

• Design

  

  Little Tokyo Design Week Brings Japan to Downtown L.A.

  A new festival celebrating Japanese culture in Los Angeles opens tomorrow with talks, parties, and a gallery of shipping containers on the streets.

  by Carren Jao

• Lifestyle

  

  Seafood Networking: Fuud.tv Lets Tokyo Fishermen Sell Their Catch Online

  These days, we're connected to everyone we've ever met via Facebook, but the people who supply our food are often still total strangers.In Japan,...

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  The Man Who Leaves Roses on Edgar Allan Poe's Grave Every Year Has Disappeared

  For the second year in a row, the mysterious Poe Toaster failed to celebrate Poe's birthday in the traditional manner. Is he dead?

  by Morgan Clendaniel