When I was a child, Lego blocks were just a kind of simple, fun toy for kids. But recently Lego has evolved, and even adults are enjoying building things…

Today, I am going to introduce a Japan-made stylish iPhone application. There are various photo-sharing websites (services), for example flickr, on which we can share pictures that we took. There…

Some women are good at dodging men’s advances. When they start to sense romance after going out together several times, they turn down the men. Those women are called “Hagure…

    Needless to say, Super Mario Brothers is the world best known game series of Nintendo. Smashing blocks, the hero Mario gets coins and items to get more life….

  Walking can be repetitive and boring but “game pedometers” motive us and help preventing metabolic syndrome. In Japan, there are various pedometers with game features. For example, Pokewalker is…

Since it’s almost two weeks to the Children’s Day on May 5, some households have already decorated koinobori, carp streamers, in their yards and balconies. Traditionally, households with children decorate…

  “Origami Furoshiki” is a Japanese wrapping cloth furoshiki with origami feature, created by a Japanese design team COCHAE and a furoshiki manufacture and shop Musubi. A special pattern is…

A Japanese web portal Kids@nifty provides a lot of fun online games. Although they are designed for children, some are challenging enough that even grownups can enjoy! For example, the…

  Pekoppa are toy plants that nod when you talk to. They sense the intervals of conversations and nod at the right timing. Pekoppa are so smart that they change…

On Feburary 28, a new Zazen (Zen meditation) application for iPhone was released on iTunes. It was produced by young monks who run Higanji, a web magazine on Buddhism. Although…

The other day, I made some posts about “the world’s first bipedal robot full marathon” on the JAPAN Style Facebook page. And today, I would like to write about it…