Topic: Tokyo

Tokyo Makes a Sun-Powered Bid for the 2016 Olympics

The world's largest city throws its hat in the ring for the 2016 Olympics by promoting its green technology and architecture.READ»

House Designs That Show Off Your Hot Ride

Difficult problems beget ingenious design solutions. Tokyo's stunning levels of overcrowding pose one of the most severe architectural constraints around--it's one of the reason that it's become home to lots of amazing architecture ...READ»

Dine on A Gravely Endangered Species for Only $104,400!

Last year, 41 Oma premium bluefin tuna were on the block for the New Year's auction at Tokyo's famous Tsukiji Market, the biggest fish market in the world. This year, there were only four--and one of them sold for a seven-year high of ...READ»

Japan's High-Tech Solution To Bike Clutter [video]

Japan is known for being one step ahead, with its advanced technology, crazy vending machines and quirky fashion. So a futuristic new scheme for parking bicycles in Tokyo, although a welcome development, isn't out of the ...READ»

In Japan, Billboards Watch You Watching Them

NTT Communications has tackled the age-old problem of working out who's paying attention to which sign-based advertising by making the sign watch back. The Japanese company will run an experiment where webcam-equipped digital signs ...READ»

Where Art Thou?

The four kinds of places that make up today's creative world.READ»

• In Praise of Spikes

Translating Sony Into English

Mark Hanson and his marketing group sit on Sony's border between Japan and the United States. The big question: What to do when that border becomes a gap.READ»

Business Travel Tips

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House Beautiful, Diminutive

Residents of dense urban sections of Japan such as Tokyo have gotten quite smart about living large in small spaces. Now, a new architectural movement is rethinking home design to make the most of the least. Not only does the shift ...READ»

Innovation: Why Tokyo Executives Never Eat Alone

In its Saturday "Power Tables" column, the Wall Street Journal recently highlighted the sushi bar at Kyubey in Tokyo's Ginza downtown. I can say from experience that the sushi there is exceptional: I recall fondly a lunch whose ...READ»

Innovation: The Great Haul of China

It wasn't long after I arrived in Tokyo that I heard about the tuna flying to China. My book The Sushi Economy ends in China, sushi's last frontier, where an expanding middle class is developing fresh appetites for the food and an ...READ»

Nike's New Tokyo Store: Serious Sole Power!

The theme for the new flagship store in the Harajuku neighborhood? Shoes, and lots of 'em.READ»

New Speaker Design Turns Music Into Water-and-Light Show

There isn't much to explain about Yuki Yamamoto's Spica, just unveiled at Tokyo's DesignTide 2009: Composed of a water-tight subwoofer and a glass tube, the speaker is covered in lights and water. When music is played, a leaping ...READ»

Wonderwall's New Godiva Outpost in Toyko

In Japan, Wonder Wall is the go-to firm for dramatic, big-ticket interior design. Their newest project, in Tokyo, is the Godiva Chocoiste flagship store in Tokyo's Harajuku district. The biggest draw is the second-floor ceiling, ...READ»

Green Machine

Gunter Pauli's radical eco-factories completely eliminate pollution. They also rewrite the rules for growth, productivity, and profit.READ»

A House that Takes Outside/Inside to the Extreme

California architects of the 1970s were a big force in popularizing the idea of indoor/outdoor living, with houses that featured huge patios and glass-walled living rooms. But a new villa in Germany pushes the idea to its logical ...READ»

Architects of the New Economy

"But now all I need in order to have a future, is to design a future I can manage to get inside of." -- Francine Julian ClarkREAD»

Keiko Satoh

TED likes to think of itself as an Idea Summit, a gathering that one reporter/participant calls 'smart, overstimulated, and uncoordinated; the nutty professor in its own world of ideas.'READ»

NeoCon World's Trade Fair

Does the mere thought of PowerPoint-glutted conferences send your fingernails inching toward your eyeballs? Then we suggest the pecha-kucha night at this designers' gathering. The brainchild of Tokyo architects Mark Dytham and ...READ»

The Real Value of Business

As I talk with prospective members of Abound about their businesses, the business of sustainability and the challenges of being a leader in sustainable business, one of the recurring themes we encounter is that of value.This ...READ»

Between the Lines

The stories behind this issue's storiesREAD»

Global Greening Lifestyles: Japan

What factors are influencing different countries in their approaches to green design and green living? Here we look at Japan.READ»

Tokyo Time Killers

Got a few hours to kill between meetings on your next business trip? Sneak in a little adventure rather than sit in your hotel room.READ»

Ticket Machines Powered By Stomping Commuters Feet

Thousands of stamping feet will be doing the environment a little good from today, as a Japanese experiment that harnesses footfalls for generating power gets underway.The system consists of rubber mats and (presumably) piezo-electric ...READ»

Fast Company Recommended Events October 2009

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