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3 days ago |
monocle.com | Fiona Wilson
It's a sunny April morning in the Japanese capital and the halls of Tokyo Big Sight, the city's waterfront convention centre, are ringing with a cacophony of barks and yelps. This is Interpets Asia Pacific, Japan's top pet-products trade show, and the 2025 edition is bigger than ever.
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1 month ago |
monocle.com | Fiona Wilson
Spare a thought for Hayao Miyazaki, the 84-year-old Japanese anime director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, which has produced such hits as My Neighbour Totoro and Spirited Away. After decades spent honing his craft and meticulously making his hand-drawn films, frame by frame, Miyazaki discovered that his distinctive style was suddenly reproducible via a new image generator that OpenAI released as an update to ChatGPT last month.
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1 month ago |
monocle.com | Fiona Wilson
Digital printing has stripped the craft from Japanese manga. Meet the typesetters staging a print revolution. You might not have noticed the revolution that's occurred in the world of Japanese manga in the past 15 years - unless you were looking closely. The comic-book art form that traces its roots back to the witty, whimsical images of the great Ukiyo-e woodblock print artists, has moved squarely into the digital world.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
monocle.com | Fiona Wilson |Gregory Scruggs |Cyrus Panganiban |Jake Naughton
LBoom towns and bright spots across the world are bucking the trends that others are seeing in the global economy, with undaunted property companies seizing the moment to launch game-changing projects. We speak to some key industry players whose firms are reshaping the future. 1. THE INTREPID CEO Meean DyManila, PhilippinesPark Villas in Metro Manila is on course to become one of the Philippines’ most prestigious addresses.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
monocle.com | Fiona Wilson |Kohei Take |Andrea Pugiotto
LNot long ago, many were questioning the need to have offices at all – but there’s a growing awareness that proximity to production can help to keep standards high. We visit firms in Japan, Morocco and Italy to see how HQs with in-built factories or labs are keeping staff engaged and improving the products on offer. Big clothing, furniture and design firms today tend to make their products in locations far from where they are conceived.
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