Originating from Harajuku, Japan’s kawaii subculture has found its way beyond Tokyo, influencing the rest of the world in its sugary wake. Even so, the notoriously dodgy district of Takenotsuka may be the last place in Tokyo one would expect such as culture to materialize, let alone thrive. And yet, here stands the Asakura Gallery, where kawaii meets poisonous. Located in the quiet corner of a residential neighborhood, visitors can sense its strange, quasi-sinister aura with a single look: a small two-story house painted in dazzling pink, covered all over with…
