About
Hi, I’m Koko.
I’m Japanese, and I currently live in a mid-sized city outside of Tokyo. Before settling back in Japan, I spent a few years living in both the United States and the United Kingdom — experiences that turned out to shape the way I see my own country more than I expected.
There’s something about leaving a place that makes you notice it differently when you return. The things I had always taken for granted — the rhythms of daily life, the quiet attention to craft in everyday objects, the way food changes with the seasons — suddenly felt worth paying attention to. Worth writing about.
That’s where this blog came from.
What This Blog Is About
Koko Lifelog is a record of ordinary life in Japan, written from the inside. Not the tourist version, and not the idealised version — just the real, everyday one.
I write about food, mostly. What I cook at home, what the company canteen is serving, what’s worth ordering when we eat out. I write about Japanese products and brands I genuinely use and love — kitchen knives, footwear, sneakers, things that have earned their place in daily life. And occasionally I write about culture: art exhibitions, collaborations, the kind of things that make living here feel quietly rich.
The common thread is craft. Japan has a deep tradition of making things well — of treating even ordinary objects with care and intention. Living abroad made me appreciate that more than I ever did growing up surrounded by it. I came home wanting to share it.
A Little More About Me
Outside of the blog, I have a genuine weakness for cars and fashion — neither of which appears here very often, but both of which inform the way I think about design, quality, and what makes something worth owning.
Thanks for reading. I hope something here is useful, or at the very least, interesting.
— Koko