A fully recreated Showa-style living room, with a modern surprise, awaits retro-seeking visitors.
Showa Era
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The artist said to have created the kawaii aesthetic will feature in an exhibition celebrating his 90th birthday.
We found a candy store/Showa-era time capsule in Fukuoka, and took lots of photos of its old-timey delights!
SoraNews24 sends our thrifty reporter to test a set of sponge curlers, so he looks like an old-timey housewife. And that’s before he takes them out.
If we could have a genie grant only one wish, it would likely be for a time machine. Even going back a mere 100 years would be fascinating, but, alas, genies aren’t real. Or, if they are, the world governments are keeping them tightly under wraps.
Fortunately, we don’t need time machines to sneak peeks back in time–all we need are some awesome, full-color posters. And these 17 posters are the next best thing to finding Doc Brown waiting outside with a revving DeLorean!
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