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Unbelievable photographs of snowflakes from Tokyo’s recent snowstorm taken with iPhones 【Pics】
- Corey Gold
Nov 27, 2016 - Tweet
Japanese Twitter users capture incredibly beautiful snowflake shapes.
- Japan
- (awesome • beautiful • photography • snow • snowflakes • Tokyo • weather)
Japanese astronaut shares breathtaking photo of Japan’s leaves turning red from space
- Casey Baseel
Oct 28, 2016
Mars may be the one called the Red Planet, but this shot shows part of Earth turning a beautiful crimson.
- Japan
- (astronauts • autumn • awesome • beautiful • cool • fall • fall colors • photography • red leaves • space)
10 places in Japan so beautiful it’s practically hard to take a bad picture while you’re there
- Casey Baseel
Oct 27, 2016
Nine locations to visit right now, and one to save for the spring.
- Japan
- (beautiful • Gunkanjima • nature • photography • photos • shrines • Tokyo • travel)
TV series of Japanese swimsuit models stripping off samurai armor now has photo album, DVD【Vids】
- Casey Baseel
Oct 22, 2016
Come for the sex appeal, stay for the Japanese history lessons.
- Japan
- (beautiful women • books • gurabia • history • photography • samurai • video • weird)
Japanese photographer captures beautiful images of sunset after a typhoon
- Meg Murphy
Oct 4, 2016
This isn’t any rainbow after the storm, but it’s just as beautiful!
Online image collection’s views of Japan are beautiful to look at, free to use
- Casey Baseel
Sep 21, 2016
Whether you need to find breathtaking visuals for a website or pamphlet, or just want to lose yourself in the natural beauty of Japan, this is the place to do it.
Photographer travelled world for four years, takes the perfect shot after returning home to Japan
- Corey Gold
Aug 30, 2016
This viral photograph proves that sometimes the best things in life are closest to home.
- Internet, Japan
- (Japan • landscape • photo • photographer • photography • pictures • Tokyo • twitter)
Fireworks photos make us wonder if we’re seeing “fire flowers” or microscopic organisms【Photos】
- KK Miller
Aug 24, 2016
Interesting camera technique shows fireworks from a totally different point of view.
“Cute Japanese girls blowing on hot coffee” immortalised in online photography project
- Evie Nyan
Jul 23, 2016
Cute Japanese girls blowing on your cup of joe? If that’s your thing, this website should be relevant to your interests!
- Japan
- (coffee • cute • girls • Japanese women • Kawaii • photography)
Cosplay ideals vs. reality, part 5: Props gone wild edition【Photos】
- Joan Coello
Jul 20, 2016
Sometimes it’s not about the quality of your props, but how you use them.
Underwater Knee High Girls appear in new exhibition celebrating soft thighs and kaiju monsters
- Oona McGee
Jul 13, 2016
Nobody combines classic monsters and knee-high socks like Japan.
- Japan
- (cute girls • girls • Kawaii • knee-high • photography • socks • swimming • tights • underwater)
Adorable family of cats and children look out for each other during nap time and at play
- Oona McGee
Jun 28, 2016
This heartwarming collection of photos reveals the beautiful bonds created between children and pets.
- Japan
- (animals • cats • children • cute • cute. cats • families • pets • photography • photos)
Korean photographer documents life living with sex doll in series of beautiful pictures 【Pics】
- Scott Wilson
Jun 25, 2016
Love can be real, even if your partner isn’t.
- Korea
- (beautiful • june korea • love • love doll • New York • photography • relationships)
Japanese photographer captures the lives of cats in Tokyo with beautiful results
- Oona McGee
Jun 19, 2016
It’s amazing to see what a cat can get up to in the city during the night and day.
- Cats, Cute, Japan
- (cats • cute • cute. cats • Instagram • Masayuki Oki • photography • photos • Tokyo)
Rare photos from inside North Korea’s mysterious buildings
- BUSINESS INSIDER
Jun 16, 2016
Kim Jong Suk Creche, Pyongyang Oliver Wainwright
For 10 days, architect, photographer, and architecture and design critic for The Guardian, Oliver Wainwright, traveled to Pyongyang, North Korea where he got tours inside buildings, with permission to photograph.
How to make your own postcards using photos from your phone at 7-Eleven
- Oona McGee
May 27, 2016
Create your own personalised postcards for as little as 18 cents each at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Japan.
- Japan
- (7-Eleven • convenience stores • photography • photos • postcards • travel)
Contrails + just the right conditions = A rainbow picture for the ages
- KK Miller
May 11, 2016
A Japanese photographer was fortunate enough to capture one of the most beautiful pictures of an airplane we’ve ever seen.
- Japan
- (beautiful • contrails • KAGAYA • photography • rainbow • Yutaka Kagaya)
Stunning time-lapse photography, “Sea of Clouds”, shows off Hong Kong’s natural beauty【Video】
- Philip Kendall
Apr 23, 2016
There’s so much more to China’s southern city than skyscrapers…
- China, Culture, Entertainment
- (China • clouds • Hong Kong • photography • time-lapse • travel • video)
Amazing side-by-side images capture a century of change in China【Pics】
- Jamie Koide
Apr 19, 2016
We’ve seen how Chinese beauty has changed over the past 100 years, but what about the landscape itself?
- China, Culture
- (Chinese history • city scapes • Dheera Venkatraman • modernization • photography • tourism)
Japanese Twitter users share gorgeous photos of sakura season coming to an end
- Preston Phro
Apr 9, 2016
Sakura leaves are beautiful whether they’re clinging to trees or fallen on the ground.
- Culture, Cute, Internet, Japan
- (cherry blossoms • ducks • Philosopher's Walk • photography • spring)
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New Era celebrates three decades of Pokémon with new 30th anniversary cap line [Photos]
Pokémon card game’s expansion features art from Fist of the North Star creator
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Chainsaw robots helping keep trains running safely in east Japan [Video]
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Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign
Studio Ghibli creates illustrated Kyoto sightseeing map, available at any 7-Eleven Japan store
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
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Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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