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The portable power station has been a Japanese road-trip accessory for five years. What changed the math is a small DC-DC alternator…
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TOTO's new Neorest LS-W is the world's first consumer toilet with an automatic digestive-output sensor. The product is unmistakably Japanese.
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The desktop 3D printer used to be the great unfulfilled promise of Japanese hobbyist manufacturing. In two years, Bambu Lab turned it…
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Japan's quiet bet that real-time environmental data is retail's next layer. Inside UNIQLO's new in-store UV index display and what it means…
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The new gold standard of luxury isn't features. It's ethnography.
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The charm-decorated skincare selling out in Tokyo is telling us something about Gen Z — and about what K-beauty becomes after "glass…
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4,300 people stood in a queue for a skincare mist with a charm clip. Inside the Anua phenomenon that is rewriting how…
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