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Sep
22
Story of the Emoji
Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis.
Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for
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Sep
21
Emoji
Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis.
Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for
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Sep
10
Coffee in a Can
Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences.
When they happen to some people
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Aug
19
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3)
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of
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Aug
19
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 2)
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here.
The Hot Spring
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Aug
19
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs
Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a three-part
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Jun
11
A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores (Part 2)
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part article. It will mostly make sense even without reading Part
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Jun
11
A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores
Editor’s note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a two-part
6 min read
May
29
A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store
Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is
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Apr
15
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again.
Stockholm, 1912
At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line
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