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A new café craze in Japan has gone viral.  Dubbed as the ‘anti-loneliness’ campaign, lone diners don’t have to be really alone – they get to dine with large stuffed animals – Moomins! – for company. In...

Goldfish phone booths started to appear around Osaka. A group called ‘Kingyobu’, or Goldfish Club, was reinventing the once omnipresent, and now obsolete an old phone booth by transforming it from a functional tool to an object of public...

(CNN) – Talk about creative coping mechanisms for being alone — from the blogger who photographs selfies with his imaginary girlfriend to the company that takes your stuffed animals on vacation without you, Japan appears to be cornering the...

(Image: The Great Crate) We love seeing creative ways to upcycle items that might otherwise just be thrown in the trash. The movement is gaining considerable momentum, and that’s being helped along by a plethora of large-scale and commercial upcycling...

(CNN)Talk about creative coping mechanisms for being alone — from the blogger who photographs selfies with his imaginary girlfriend to the company that takes your stuffed animals on vacation without you, Japan appears to be cornering the market on accommodating...