PUBLIC MARKS with tag japon

Japan’s Reconstruction Agency will be inaugurated Friday, almost 11 months after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the country. The agency will streamline the process to help municipalities, set up special reconstruction zones and provide subsidies for disaster-hit local governments.

Kumadori prints by Konobu Hasegawa (ca. 1867–1879)

Issei Suda Title, Negative date: Untitled (Women dancing on sand), Late 1970s - 1981 Medium, Print date: Vintage silver print Notations: Signed in pencil on verso

WATCH JAPANESE MOVIES ONLINE AT JAPAN FLIX

Geminoid-F Android Waits for a Friend in a Tokyo Department Store #DigInfo

A Japanese family wakes up in Tokyo and goes to work.

KAIT Kobo - Kanagawa Institute of Technology by junya.ishigami+associates in Kanagawa, Japan For Domus 913 - Ishigami in Kanagawa

the strange case of yukio mishima

'Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town' will Lead the World by Installing Solar Panels and Home-use Storage Batteries in Every Household

What does a sudden evacuation look like? After everyone is gone, what happens to the places they've abandoned?

Kamon are Japanese emblems or crests, corresponding to the European heraldy tradition, that are used to specifically represent and identify a family.

Gone are the indistinguishable black suits requisite for interviews. Gone is the formulaic interview involving a table, a chair either side and rote answers. Gone is the hiring taboo on applicants who spent the year after college studying abroad instead of jumping into the job market.

「MACHINE CIVILIZATION」/WORLD ORDER作詞:須藤元気　　作曲：須藤元気/ Takashi WatanabeMusic by Genki Sudo /Takashi Watanabe, Words by Genki Sudo

Nearly two-thirds (63%) say that they quit because their career was not satisfying and a startling 49% left because they felt stymied and stalled.

“The Internet can be a saving grace if you’re isolated in your school or workplace.” - This was a remark from my recent interview with Izumi Mihashi from Lingua Japanese. I was reminded of it when chancing upon a poignant cry in the form of an anonymous blog entry [ja]. Bullying doesn’t stop at the schoolyard.

People here are working very hard to stay cheerful and live a normal life, or rather to adapt to the new reality. And they're fighting back.

Le charbon noir qui ne tombe pas sur le tatami jaune

LLOVE is an exhibition consisting of a hotel with guest rooms created by Dutch and Japanese designers to celebrate 400 years of trade and cultural relations between Japan and the Netherlands.

新婚一年、闘病生活たった三ヵ月弱。命日は誕生日の翌日という、いまどきテレビドラマでも敬遠されそうな出来すぎた設定だった。

A test shot to put the new Olympus 12mm F2 through its paces on the GH2 with latest hack by Vitaliy Kiselev. Music by Vangelis (Blade Runner OST, Spinner Ascent)