Traditional craft materials can be reinvented with digital technologies according to Kuma Lab co-director Toshiki Hirano, who has created a London Design Biennale installation exploring a new use for Japanese paper. More about "I see huge potential in combining the traditional with the digital" says Kuma Lab director
Brick-like tiles with a volcanic ash glaze created by Formafantasma and textured concrete walls feature in this coffee shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, by Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design. More about Keiji Ashizawa builds Blue Bottle Coffee's Tokyo outpost around volcanic-ash counter
Architecture studio Unemori Architects has built the Sukagawa Community Center in Fukushima as part of the wider rejuvenation of the city after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. More about Unemori Architects creates "earthquake-proof" community centre in Fukushima
Danish firm Norm Architects and Japanese studio Keiji Ashizawa Design have designed a mid-century modern-informed interior for Azabu Residence in Tokyo using muted dark tones and warm natural materials. More about Azabu Residence in Tokyo references mid-century American design and Brazilian modernism
This one-minute video shows how artist Yusuke Shigeta has updated a traditional Japanese art form using digital modelling techniques. More about Yusuke Shigeta reinvents traditional Japanese folding screen with digital animation
A simple gabled barn structure frames half interior, half exterior spaces in this rural Japanese home by Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects. More about Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects marries indoors and outdoors with Half Barn in Hashimoto
Japan has sent the dismantled remains of a 65-year-old house as its contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale, staging an exhibition that explores the potential for material reuse. More about Japan creates exhibition from dismantled old house at Venice Architecture Biennale
Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building site of this Minamisōma home, Soil House, created for a client who was displaced by the 2011 Japan earthquake. More about Mounds of surplus soil form walls in Japanese house by ADX
Tokyo studio Key Operation has completed an apartment building in Yokohama covered with thin concrete panels that create a random pattern of light and shadow across the facades. More about Key Operation clads Kannai Blade Residence with narrow concrete fins
This house near Japan's Mount Asama was designed by READ & Architects for a couple starting their retirement, but it can also be used as a vacation home by their children and grandchildren. More about READ & Architects builds retirement house that doubles as a vacation home in Japanese mountain town
Architects Yuki Mitani and Atsumi Nonaka have transformed an unusual bare-concrete storage room on the side of their home in Nagoya, Japan, into a multi-functional reception room. More about Nanometer Architecture takes advantage of extra space in Nagoya flat
Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. More about Yukawa Design Lab's Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a hotel in Japan designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects. More about A hotel in Japan features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Sou Fujimoto Architects has renovated a hotel in Maebashi, Japan, removing the original building's internal floors and adding a grassy hill containing cabins. More about Sou Fujimoto adds giant atrium and green hill to Shiroiya Hotel
Japanese studio Nendo has designed Carton + Pump, an alternative to single-use plastic soap dispensers in the form of a recyclable paper carton that can be switched out and replaced. More about Nendo creates paper soap dispensers that look like milk cartons
Tokyo studio Schemata Architects has designed a confectionery store in Maebashi, Japan, with a courtyard to help open up and revive a shopping street that was on the decline. More about Schemata Architects designs tiny Nakamata sweet shop in Maebashi
Parisian studio RDAI has designed a store on Tokyo's prestigious Omotesando street for fashion house Hermès, which was designed to evoke aspects of Japanese nature and culture. More about Gridded steel facade evokes bamboo forest at Hermès store in Tokyo
Apollo Architects & Associates has designed a family home with a walled-in garden that houses two generations under one roof and aims to blend indoor and outdoor living. More about Apollo Architects & Associates creates multi-generational home with walled-in garden
The architects behind 16 disaster relief shelters built following the Tōhoku earthquake as part of Toyo Ito's Home-for-All project have shared their thoughts on the buildings that are still in use as community centres. More about Architects reflect on Tōhoku earthquake community centres ten years on
Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has created a distinctive flagship store for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district with an undulating facade and interiors by architect Peter Marino. More about Jun Aoki & Associates wraps Louis Vuitton's Tokyo store in "poetic yet playful" pearlescent facade