Just like any other kid, I liked toy stores. One German toy store called “Spielwahn” in particular seemed magic to me. That store didn’t sell action figures, Barbie or board games but a range of games and robots by the Japanese manufacturer Tomy.
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From the Wall Street Journal to Biscuit Today, there was probably not one magazine which didn’t report about the iPhone 5 and its launch day. Since Apple tends to give even its partners as little information as possible, most of the smaller cell phone shops here in Japan had to improvise.
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Classic analog film cameras are exciting and Japan is the place to buy them. At camera shows such as the
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How to find that store? Camera Cabaret is the main shop of SuperHeadz, a Japanese manufacturer of toy cameras. The craze about these cameras is largely fueled by Lomography and SuperHeadz.
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Because of rainy season, they sold a happy bag (fukubukuro, lucky bag) with Lomography goods. I guess I was the
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After 11pm most people who want to return home and not spend the whole night singing karaoke hurry to catch
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I had visited Seoul Grand Park and I wanted to go to the art museum afterwards – unfortunately the shuttle bus service was interrupted. Good thing that there was a newly opened camera museum to keep me entertained.
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Gunpei Yokoi was one of the most famous game designers of all time. An incredibly creative man who not only
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The iPhone case exhibition 2010 was held from August 21st to 29th in the red brick warehouses in Yokohama. 100
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Six months ago I bought the latest addition to my camera collection, the Digital Harinezumi 2. The Harinezumi belongs to the toy camera category of cameras which is immensely popular here in Tokyo.
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While there are the lomo society and toy cam lovers in other countries, in Japan the toy cameras are particularly
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