Bobby Okinaka has launched a new website, Tokyo a la Mode, a magazine for Japanese fashion and urban culture. It already has some fun reviews of interesting fashion, film, and food and promises to grow into a great resource for...
Here is another installment from my student essays from my Japanese popular culture class. This one is from Jennilee Tuazon. Her blank eyes gaze at you from her white face, her button nose a sunshine yellow. A dainty bow...
A past newsletter from Terrie Lloyd ("Terrie's Take") mentions a new book about Hello Kitty: "Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon," by Ken Belson (NYTimes correspondent) and Brian Bremner. Yuko Shimizu's Hello...
From PetOffice, a web pet boutique based in Japan, outfits for your domesticated animals. The cat outfits are priceless - you can dress your feline friend up as a frog (shown here), a rabbit, chicken, ram or leopard. Or Anne...
Every spring for the last several years eternal wunderkind Marc Jacobs has crafted the must-have accessory for venerable fashion house Louis Vuitton. Stylish Tokyo ladies - along with their fellow fashionistas all over the world - covet the famous...
