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Fashion brand Diagram has released the season visual for its 2026 Pre Autumn collection, themed New York Harbor Ease, alongside a nationwide Onward Members +7% points campaign running from July 22 to 31, 2026.
earth music&ecology is releasing a Disney Collection inspired by the film Zootopia, with advance reservations opening July 22, 2026 and a nationwide launch on August 21, featuring playful pouches and bags starring Judy, Nick, and Clawhauser.
FREAK'S STORE has rounded up its T-shirt and top lineup for the new season, spanning logo and photo prints, border patterns, girly docking designs, and Henley neck styles.
TPS Co., Ltd.'s mala tang specialty brand Fuen Mala Tang, known for the long lines at its stores, opens its first Gifu Prefecture location in Gifu City on July 25, 2026, as the chain expands toward a nationwide goal of 100 shops.
The capsule toy specialty store gashacoco is opening its 36th franchise location at Well Played Happy's Saidaiji Mall in Okayama on July 31, 2026 — the brand's first franchise location in Okayama Prefecture and its first collaboration with Amusement Taka Co.
From July 29 to August 18, 2026, Hankyu Umeda Main Store's 1st-floor Accessory section hosts "ACCESSORY SUMMER GIFT," bringing together store-exclusive silver rings, customizable charms, and lucky-motif accessories from brands including e.m., 4°C, Bijou de M, KAJA BIJOUX, and MILAMORE.
Actress, composer, and insect producer Hiyori Katada, known for her appearances on TBS's Crazy Journey and NHK's The Backyard, will hold her photo exhibition "Beloved Insects" at the Basement Gallery inside Shinjuku Kitamura Camera from August 3 to 16, 2026, showcasing close-up shots that capture the personalities of insects.
Holiday Inn Express Sapporo Susukino, the brand's second location in Japan, opened on July 17, 2026, in the heart of Sapporo's Susukino district. IHG Hotels & Resorts highlights it alongside four other properties in Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Tokyo designed for travelers who combine business trips with leisure.
VIVE ORIGINALS, the XR content studio backed by HTC, has officially launched VPOP ASIA, a new virtual idol audition show blending virtual production, Chinese-language pop music, and digital IP, with Japanese VTuber Kson making a special appearance and Taiwanese host Lulu taking the stage alongside virtual idols for the first time.
A community dance festival that has colored Wakayama's summer nights for more than half a century, Kishu Odori "Bundara-bushi" returns to Wakayama Castle's Keyaki Odori avenue on Saturday, August 1, 2026, preceded by a pre-festival at Nishinomaru Plaza the evening before.
Maison de FLEUR is celebrating "Maison de FLEUR Day" on August 7, 2026 with the Journée Maison de FLEUR collection, a lineup of seven rose-themed bags, pouches, a wallet, and a charm in soft pink and ivory, releasing at stores nationwide and on the official STRIPE CLUB web store, with early online reservations opening July 25.
The Marie Antoinette Style exhibition at Yokohama Museum of Art, running from August 1 to November 23, 2026, is releasing collaboration goods with Hello Kitty and The Rose of Versailles, alongside an exhibition catalog and a limited-time ice cream cart outside the venue.