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Kokeshi Dolls!

Originally from the north of Japan, the Kokeshi dolls were born in Tohoku, a region famous for its hot spring resorts. Was when the woodworkers of the 19th century, habituated to make bowls and trays,...

[Japanese Auction] 01/15 17:39:45

Sylvanian Families FURNITURE!

Few weeks ago we introduce you the SYLVANIAN FAMILIES one of the best known dollhouse sets ever. Created by the Japanese company Epoc in 1985, Sylvanian Families is a collectible line of dollhouses an...

[shop.j-subculture.com] 12/19 17:05:03

ZEBRA SURARI EMULSION Ink pen

The ZEBRA SURARI EMULSION Ink pen is a innovation in ink history, the Japanese pen company Zebra develop a new ink type for their ZEBRA SURARI EMULSION ink pen line. This new emulsion ink combines, in...

[shop.j-subculture.com] 12/17 18:30:58

BANDAI S.H. FIGUARTS - Simple a...

For products, scroll down to the bottom ↓ 'SIMPLE STYLE' and 'HEROIC ACTION' are the fundamentals behind BANDAI's popular figure series. Each figure is highly poseable and faithfully designe...

[shop.j-subculture.com] 11/25 15:16:21

Tombow Zoom Light!

In J-Subculture we are big fan of the Japanese stationery brands and Tombow is one of our favourite ones, we already introduce you some of their best products like the Tombow AirPress Pen, with a cool...

[shop.j-subculture.com] 11/02 20:06:49

Anime cels!

Despite some of the greatest Anime movies of all time do not come from a previous anime, those animes who gain popularity, soon or later are brought to the big screen. Nowadays the computer animation ...

[Japanese Auction] 10/27 13:56:57

Game Gear, 90's pop culture!

We continue celebrating the 80's and 90's pop culture, in fact Japan contributed with some of the most iconics products of the 80's and 90's pop culture, specially in the videogame industry. We...

[Japanese Auction] 10/23 15:48:37

Nintendo Game Boy, 90s pop cult...

Is a fact that this big gray buddy and his little brothers are one of the most iconic signs of the 90s pop culture, not just one of the biggest success of the big N japanese company but a electronic d...

[Japanese Auction] 10/09 17:28:55

PlayStation 4, this is for the ...

The release of the new PlayStation 4, the Xbox One and the Wii U introduced us into the eighth generation of the video console systems, as always the rivality between competitors is huge and Sony's ne...

[Japanese Auction] 10/09 15:26:33

PlayStation 3

Released in 2006 and revealed to the public for the first time during the 2005 E3 conference, the PlayStation 3 took the baton from the successful PlayStation 2. In this first version the controller w...

[Japanese Auction] 10/07 18:17:25

Fujifilm Instax, make it instan...

Fujifilm is a well known Japanese brand, back in the film era Fujifilm's films was probably the finest and the best you could buy. Despite other companies like Polaroid or Kodak, Fujifilm managed to ...

[Japanese Auction] 10/05 18:23:32

PlayStation 2, simply the best!

Was 1998 when Sony developed the PlayStation 2, the company announced the new system one year after at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show allowing some select public to try it. Sony's PlayStation sold millions ...

[Japanese Auction] 10/02 17:29:32

Wii U, the new revolution

"What should a new machine do? Much more. An unprecedented gameplay experience. Something no other machine has delivered before. The definition for a new machine must be different. I want you t...

[Japanese Auction] 09/30 08:58:05

Nintendo Wii, a revolution.

If the truth be told we was looking forward to introduce you a game system you should definitively know, we're talking about one of the latest "Revolution" the big N company brings us a few ...

[Japanese Auction] 09/30 08:58:00

PlayStation Vita

Although lot of people see the PS Vita as one of the greatest Sony's recent fails, it doesn't mean that buying a PS Vita is a bad idea, in fact it is a great one. We can't blame PS Vita for his low sa...

[Japanese Auction] 09/17 18:14:40

PSP (PlayStation Portable)

As you may notice, we are working to introduce you the most important game systems of the recent game era in Japan. We saw how Nintendo defined the video games with Nintendo SNES, then Sony's PlayStat...

[Japanese Auction] 09/16 18:46:56

PlayStation, do it!

Recently we took a look to Nintendo's SNES, one of the greatest video consoles of all times. If Nintendo started defining the video games with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (AKA Fam...

[Japanese Auction] 09/16 09:29:07

The Saxophone family

Even if there is a huge list of different saxophones, in fact Adolphe Sax the creator of this instrument patented 14 types of them in 1846, we're gonna focus on the four most common sax types. When we...

[Japanese Auction] 09/09 09:47:33

Super Nintendo entertaining sys...

If you don't know jet, at the beginning Nintendo was a Kyoto-based card maker company, they try with the instant rice, with taxis even with love hotels. In 1980 Mr Gunpei Yokoi, the father of the Game...

[Japanese Auction] 09/09 09:47:26

Pilot Fountain Pen Custom Herit...

Pilot has a number of pens under the Custom Heritage name and their number naming convention can be a little confusing some times. The Pilot Custom Heritage 91, 92 & 912 are a member of the classi...

[shop.j-subculture.com] 09/01 16:18:56