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  • More on UNIQLO’s Manga T-Shirts

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    NEW YORK – TOKYO posts more about UNIQLO’s latest manga t-shirt collection, including a look at the display they have up at the Soho Store.

  • Sneaker Love Pop-up Shop

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    Starting today (April 21) and running until May 6, Laforet in Harajuku is hosting the “KIKS TYO x YONE x AKI HOSHINO Sneaker Lover Pop-up Shop.” The shop will have exclusive collaborations with Champion, New Balance, and G-SHOCK, and will also be selling the limited edition tee (Hoshino photographed by Yone) seen below. Also, the…

  • Casa Bape

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    Want to know what Nigo’s home looks like? The following is a report from BBC’s JAPANORAMA program. Via Imprint Talk.

  • Wonderwall Update

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    Wonderwall updates with a few new projects, including galleries for the Bape Store Harajuku, Abbey, and Sea Sky lounge and guest rooms.

  • Lining Up for Bape in 2008

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    Regular readers will know that I often make sly comments about Bape, and the fact that their Tokyo stores are usually empty (at least when I go). In the comment thread to this post about the Bape Nintendo DS collaboration, a reader links to this video of people waiting in line on release day. I’m…

  • IKEA Takes Over Train

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    Wow! In order to promote the upcoming opening of their new store at Port Island in Kobe, IKEA has turned the Kobe Portliner Monorail into a showroom. Via Pink Tentacle.

  • H&M Teams Up with Comme des Garcons for Tokyo Launch

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    We all knew that H&M were finally going to open their first Japan store in Tokyo later this year, but now comes news that the November launch will coincide with an exclusive line by Rei Kawakubo’s Comme des Garcons, covering menswear, womenswear, childrenswear, accessories, and a new unisex fragrance. Vogue has more details. Via Jesper.

  • More from Yoshioka for Swarovski

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    Dezeen posts additional photos of Tokujin Yoshioka‘s work on the new Swarovski Ginza store, that opened this week. Yoshioka will also be contributing to Swarovski’s installation at the Milano Salone later this month.

  • Bookoff Offers to Pay Manga Creators

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    As reported by Anime News Network: Bookoff Corporation, Japan’s largest used bookstore chain, has reportedly offered to pay 100 million yen (about US$1 million) to the Copyright Network for Comic Authors in the 21st Century, The Japan Writers’ Association, and other creators’ associations. According to the newspapers who first learned of this offer on March…

  • Roppongi Hills on the Outs

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    Sure, that title doesn’t spell out anything new to anyone who has been to Roppongi Hills in the past couple of years, but as this article points out, next month marks the Hills’ 5 year anniversary, which means that quite a few leases are up, and most tenants are not renewing. (Thanks, Max.)