Catch a smaller version of the “Kansei” exhibition — held last December in Paris — at Spiral in Aoyama, until January 28. It will include a book created by so+ba for the Japanese Printing Association.

Curious about Okuribito, the Japanese film that was nominated yesterday for an Academy Award in the “Best Foreign Film” category? Have a look at this piece on Néojaponisme.

My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Lemnos‘ Riki Steel Clock (above), D-BROS‘ Bise Chocolate, and Satoshi Nakagawa’s U-WING ballpoint pen.

T-shirt label Quolomo is teaming up with photographer Yasumasa “Yone” Yonehara for the “Quolomo Yone” exhibition at Shibuya PARCO, running January 23 to February 28. Based on Yone’s “Talking About Her Sex” series for Dazed & Confused Japan, the show will include a collection of 20 t-shirt designs, available for purchase — you’ll get to buy the t-shirts online here from February 1.

You can execute many exciting poses with the Obama action figure, and one of them is resting under a kotatsu, flanked by a Famicom.

Apologies for the bombastic title, but I am very pleased to report that I am now going to be working with KDa on Pecha Kucha Night-related projects. There are a lot of exciting projects down the line that I can’t really talk much about, but for now one thing you will be seeing my input quite regularly on is Pecha Kucha Daily. Created as a blog to highlight what is happening at the over 160 PKNs — and counting — around the world, it’s so far been a low-key affair, but expect that to change very soon!

I’m a big fan of visual unit Delaware — most recently for their cool Records iPhone app — and I’m told they will be participating at the next Minimal Tokyo, with this being their first — and quite possibly only — live performance. The event kicks off at 22:00 at Unit (3,500 yen at the door), and Delaware are scheduled to do their hour-long live visual set from 00:30.

So where’s the best place to catch the latest in Japanese street snaps? Mekas provides us with a comprehensive look at the Japanese sites that do exactly that. As always, the piece is accompanied by terrific photography by Sean Wood.

Andrea Innocent is an Australian illustrator/designer who is, as she writes on her site, a “self-confessed nipponophile and otaku.” I got a kick out of her “Lonely in Tokyo” series, which mixes illustration with photos taken in Tokyo, like the one seen above. You can see the rest at the bottom of this page.

German photographer Aram Dikiciyan — currently based in Tokyo — has a show on right now at Clear Gallery, running until February 14. Max attended the opening, and has a gallery of shots up.

A trip to Japan in photos, presented in an almost still-motion manner. Via Jesper.

Photo taken while biking yesterday around the city, using the iPhone’s Toy Camera app. Pictured, a spot near Suidobashi station.

Two things you would want to pick up: Rizzoli’s gorgeous book on A Bathing Ape, and the latest issue of Studio Voice (398). Holding said products in the photos above, that would be the lovely Marie, who did translations for both.

Remember that Gabo game for the iPhone from Seaman creator Yoot Saito? Apparently, Apple turned it down when it was submitted for inclusion on the iTunes App Store because, as reported by Kotaku, it was too “unpleasant.” Damn.

Now this is not something I ever thought I’d see: the Takurazuka all-woman musical theater troupe is adapting Capcom’s Phoenix Wright series — revolving around detective work and trials — for the stage. I’ve been meaning to see a Takurazuka show for ages, and I think this might finally get me to go — yes, I’m a big fan of those games. Via Japan Probe.