She extolled the virtues of uselessness in person at an exhibition called “Kabushiki Gaisha Muda Shibuya Shiten” (Useless Ltd.’s Shibuya branch exhibition) in a corner of Tokyo’s Shibuya ...

Lockers at train stations had been largely deserted and rendered useless during the commuter ... at five major train stations in the capital: Tokyo, Shinjuku, Ueno, Shinagawa and Ikebukuro.