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Mega

McDonald's Japan is set to launch its third series of "mega" burgers next month.
Twin sandwiches, "MegaTomato" and "MegaTamago". They're to be available in limited-edition from December 14 to January 10 at McDonald's throughout Japan.

A-La-Uno

National decided it would invent a model that could address to all concerns. The A-LA-UNO was engineered with a powerful bowl-scouring spiraling flush and an internal tank that uses common dish soap. According to National, the combination produces a double-bubble whammy with amazing cleaning power. Yet the A-LA-UNO uses much less water than previous toilets, saving owners almost 13,000 yen every year in water bills ($110).
The A-LA-UNO comes with internal LED lighting that illuminates the floor and glows inside the tank. It's also equipped with 12 music tracks and 3-D stereo speakers for those who like or who want to camouflage other sounds intrinsic to toilet time.
Plus, the A-LA-UNO has an odor eliminating fan and sensors that automatically lift the lid when you enter the room and close it after you've left. As an added bonus, the seat heats up instantly—but only when its being used—providing over 5,000 yen more in savings versus toilets that are constantly warmed.

Maruione

Maruione launched on Saturday 1st is now officially open as a international online store with famous brands such as h.Naoto and Black Peace Now.

Japan Street Fashion October

指田幸太（20） ; けい（23）

朝田良平（24） ; 廣木雅（21）

的場良平（23） ; 木村誉（22）

重松健太（23） ; とーるくん（21）

GYRE

GYRE is the new shopping center located in Omotesando. The opening was two weeks ago, it includes luxury brand stores and restaurants.

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Best of Tokyo Design Week

Check out PingMag's list of Design's week top 20!

Boolean interior

Project by Torafu architects. Boolean is the interior for a café space at the University of Tokyo, using wooden surfaces to enclose the space and frame the outside world, where there used to be just a waiting room with a vending machine, covered with stone flooring, walls, and stainless window sash.

Torafu

MTV eco

Japanese MTV has a tv show directed to environmental issues called "MTV THINK LOUD: eco with Honda. Some artists participate, talking and giving a hand to recycle ideas.

You can check some episodes of this tv show on the official mtv-eco blog

Japan Street Fashion September

from the left to the right: ライス（22）; 野田大輔（24）

根路銘祐平（21）; 宇野文彦（22）

橋本雅仁（20）; 伊藤万里（21）

チェベス（21）; 新居宏司（24）

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Liz Lisa Doll

New collection of the gyaru brand Liz Lisa.

Tokyo Design Week

Tokyo Designer's Week, 100% Design Tokyo, DesignTide and Swedish Style bring lots of exhibitions, events and parties to Tokyo. Events and exhibitions are also taking place in many shops and cafes throughout Shibuya, Harajuku, Aoyama and Roppongi until November 4, but Swedish Style goes until November 8.

You might also want to check how to survive tokyo design week, tide think, treasured trash and mint designs.

Pecha Kucha Night-Tokyo

Pecha Kucha it's an architecture event of X design tide that took place at 1st November with over 2000 visitors.

photos by Jeremy Lanig

Real Drive

By Production I.G studios and Shirow Masamune (creator of Ghost in the Shell), Real Drive will premiere in Japan on NTV April 2008. overview.

Zeebra ft. Jesse (Rize) - Not Your Boyfriend

I think this is one of the best PV's I have ever seen, it's just so well done. The quality, the production, everything is awesome. Zeebra did it again, congrats to him.

Kreva - strong style

Kreva is one of the greatest Japanese rappers with sharp and clever rhymes.
This song has a nice beat to it.

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gyaro & gyaruo

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ARIA - NEXT DOOR feat CHOZEN LEE from FIRE BALL

I'm loving this song! It's so catchy.
Chozen Lee amazes me, I'm a big fan of Fire Ball, so here it is one of their PV's "bad japanese".

2BACKKA + BENNIE K - home

2Backka are so cool!

Noriaki - skyfish

This is an awesome man.

DJ Ozma - spiderman

For those of you who still didn't watch it, what are you waiting for?

From Heavy-metal to J-pop

Patrick Macias does an interview with Megadeath's ex-guitarrist Marty Friedman. Did you know he now lives in Tokyo and has been a J-pop fan since several years ago? Read the whole interview in Japan Times.

Billboard Live Tokyo

Billboard Live TOKYO venue opened last month at Tokyo Midtown. The 300-seat venue and restaurant is already hosting a busy schedule of live shows, with some big-name acts that are accompanied with big ticket prices.

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Tokyo Midtown

Tokyo Midtown inovates in more open and green spaces, the 21_21 Design Sight (a new design museum), the Suntory Museum of Art, and stylish restaurants and cafes.

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Hello Kitty

Summer's limited-edition of shirts. A collaboration between Hello Kitty, GRZ&M and DEXIE DEAN (both part of the Silver Bullet, gyaruo brands).

Evangelion Doritos

Mikimoto Ginza 2

Mikimoto Ginza 2 store, designed by Toyo Ito (Tod's Omotesando), offers some irregularly shaped (and placed) windows, which certainly stands out.

The Bodyguard

Sonny Chiba's "The Bodyguard" from 1973 is coming soon to anamorphic English dubbed DVD in November.

Viva Chiba!

Shadow Plays

Last winter there was the set up of a shadow play projection on a huge Shibuya wall next to a parking lot called Big Shadow.

When people moved by, their silhouettes were enhanced and deformed, and eventually the game’s creatures would enlarge on the wall and play tricks on the crowd.

But despite the temporary excitement, people lose interest pretty quickly, especially in a city like Tokyo.

Akarium Project

Last Christmas, Omotesando Street in Aoyama was spiced up by a little bit of interactive play to these sixty objects, each of them being six meters high: the so called Akarium Project.

Anyone could call the collumns by mobile or over the internet and her or his voice would dynamically control the pulsation of the lights.

But is it Tokyo with it's high buildings, screens and neon signs, the right place for something like Akarium? However, the usage of cellphones it might improve the interest for interaction.