This new generation creative toy called Wammy is making a great hit in Japan. Since its June 2008 release, 200,000 sets of Wammy were sold. Wammy is a…

  Whether you are game lover or not, you will get into this Japanese game series called the Professor Layton for Nintendo DS (handy video game). The series currently consists…

      Can you tell what these are?   They look like kid’s toys but actually they’re musical instruments!! It’s a tadpole shaped digital musical instrument called “Otamatone”. It…

Poupee Girl is a Japanese social networking service (SNS) featured fashion brands. It opened in February 2007, and gained over 300,000 users by March 2009. The 98 % of users…

  Can you tell what this is? It’s an clock with railroad crossing alarm made by BANPRESTO CO.,LTD, a Japanese game company. The price is 2,600 yen (approx. 28 US…

    It seems many Japanese children got cooking toys from Santa for Christmas. In the recent toy market, there are wide varieties of cooking toys are sold. From sweets…

    This 57 cm tall samurai robot is called “Kuroda-bushi Robot”. It dances Kuroda-bushi, which is a folk song from Fukuoka, [W:Kyushu].   It goes “Drink sake sake, if…

    She is the HRP-4C, a humanoid robot created by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Not only does she walks and expresses emotions, she is…

    The other day, I met an 18 year-old college student at a party. His name is Yoshiaki NAGATAKE, the most famous Keio University student in Japan.   He…

This cute and easy ORIGAMI Santa Claus would be a perfect Christmas craft to make with small children. These origami Santa Clauses were made by a Japanese nursery teacher, who…

She looks like a human but she is a humanoid robot named Actroid. It was developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro Company in Sanrio group.