Located in a former barber shop, the stripped back Voice of Coffee in Kobe, Japan, features exposed wooden beams and unfinished breeze block walls. More about Yusuke Seki creates stripped-back coffee shop with raw concrete walls in Kobe
A scale model of architect Kenzo Tange's now-demolished house and a full-size replica of a 16th century tea house feature in a blockbuster exhibition of Japanese architecture at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. More about Kenzo Tange's lost house is showpiece of Japan in Architecture exhibition at Mori Art Museum
Hiroe Tanaka, creative director of the Trunk Hotel in Tokyo, explains how the building was designed to become a hub of activity, in this movie filmed by Dezeen at the AHEAD Asia hospitality awards. More about Trunk Hotel is "a completely new concept for Tokyo" says creative director
Architect Ryuji Kajino converted an 80-year-old barn in Kurashiki, Japan, to create Tiny Atelier, a studio for a designer who makes accessories from dried flowers. More about Ryuji Kajino converts simple shed into studio for flower craft
The living spaces in this house designed by Suppose Design Office in Higashihiroshima, Japan, are arranged around a dirt floor, which is a modern interpretation of a traditional doma. More about Suppose Design Office creates 21st-century take on traditional Japanese doma
Japanese studio Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office has completed a mixed-use building in Tokyo featuring a jumbled composition of concrete rooms that create spaces for small balconies and gardens. More about Akihisa Hirata stacks concrete boxes to create "futuristic and savage" Tree-ness House
Large eaves and a metal-mesh canopy that will eventually be covered with plants help to shade the interiors of this concrete house on Japan's Okinawa Island. More about Ryuichi Ashizawa uses traditional techniques to control climate at house on Okinawa Island
Large openings in the corrugated-metal facades of this boxy building in Shizuoka, Japan, frame views of the neighbourhood from a shop on the ground floor and residence above. More about Suzuki Architects combines a home and shop at Gré Square House
For this lakeside house in Japan, Tokyo-based studio Sugawaradaisuke used five interlocking levels to create multiple viewing platforms both inside and outside the property. More about Interlocking indoor and outdoor levels bring Japanese house close to nature
A new amusement park in Japan will bring to life the worlds of Studio Ghibli, the Oscar-winning animation house known for its films Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro. More about Studio Ghibli reveals visualisations for new theme park in Japan
Japanese architect Makoto Suzuki has designed his own live-work space as a series of interlocking timber-clad buildings near Sapporo on Hokkaido island. More about Timber volumes form live-work spaces for artist and architect in rural Japan
The Ace Hotel chain is opening its first Japanese outpost in Kyoto this winter, in a former telephone exchange building overhauled by Kengo Kuma. More about Kengo Kuma designs Japan's first Ace Hotel
Maruni will launch two "comfortable" wooden chairs by designers Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison at this year's Salone del Mobile furniture fair, taking place in Milan later this month. More about Maruni unveils latest collaborations with Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison
Japanese practice Hibinosekkei has completed a nursery in Yokohama, which features plywood-lined interiors and house-shaped openings set into its dark facades. More about House-shaped windows puncture perforated metal facades of Yokohama nursery
Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a new boutique for fashion house Issey Miyake inside one of Kyoto's historic machiya houses. More about Naoto Fukasawa inserts Issey Miyake store into 132-year-old Kyoto townhouse
Nendo has designed a group of mini cheesecakes to look like trees within a snowy landscape for the Japanese confectionary company Flanders. More about Nendo designs cheesecake in the style of a snowy Japanese landscape
Japanese studio Tato Architects designed the interior of this house in Osaka as a single room containing angular platforms that perform multiple functions and are connected by a spiralling sequence of wooden steps. More about Platforms function as tables and shelves inside Tato Architects' House in Miyamoto
Japanese timber company Sumitomo Forestry has revealed plans for the world's tallest wooden building in Tokyo, a 350-metre skyscraper that would also be the country's highest. More about World's tallest timber tower proposed for Tokyo
A magazine paired Schemata Architects with the owners of this house in Miyazaki prefecture for a renovation project in which the Japanese studio has reconfigured the former factory space by creating a series of plywood-lined rooms. More about Schemata Architects adds sequence of plywood boxes to redefine spaces inside House in Nobeoka
The Japanese government is protesting the "unacceptable" inclusion of a group of disputed islands on the Korean unification flag that South Korea and North Korea are set to compete together under at the Winter Olympics. More about Japan protests inclusion of disputed islands on Korea's unified Olympic flag