I love Japan. I lived there for a short period in the early 1990s. This was before the advent of the Internet, when only snail mail and phonecalls connected you to the outside "western" world. It blew my mind...the culture, karaoke, zen gardens, sushi stores, japanese bakeries, vending machines, language, tea houses, nori making, ancient rites & traditions, everything.
I've since been lucky enough to go back and discovered a new love...Japanese retail concepts, packaging and Harajuku - the tiny little lane way that houses the extraordinary, weird and wonderful....in particular the "Harajuku" street fashion that symbolises true creativity and youthful rebellion at its best.
Japan rocks. It is an incredible hive of innovation, technology and leading edge brilliance. It vales beauty in design and pays attention to detail where others overlook.
