The Japanese have a word for something that is ephemeral and also beautiful, but only beautiful because it exists for just a short time. This group of people are watching small delicate fireworks called senko hanabi.  This is definitely one of my favourite words.

 

Think science. Think small things – small things that are part of bigger things. Think technology. Think interconnectedness. This building in Odaiba is all that. It houses a TV station.

 

A difficult phrase to translate.   Similar to “Live every moment like it was your last,” but more specifically in regards to treatment of other people around you.

 

This is Nakahira Takuma – a Yokahama-based photographer who awoke after a big night of drinking in 1977 remembering nothing. He even

The subway stations of Tokyo are an amazing place, especially Shinjuku station, as shown in this picture.  Not only is flexibility a quality one needs, to make it through successfully, but also the crowds of people appear as a long flexible mass constantly yielding to the elements to flow in

Almost in direct contrast to the proud trees in the forest, all the neon signs of shinjuku compete for advertising space in a very different, albeit spectacularly way.