Today I am going to share some hamster videos posted on Niconicodouga. They are so cute! Note: To turn off the comments over the video, click a speech balloon…

Kintaro-ame (Kintaro candy) is a Japanese traditional hard candy invented in the Edo period (18th century). Just like a sushi role, the candy is shaped into a multi-layered stick, and…

Shachihata’s “Origami Kojo” allows you to make origami sheets out of papers no longer needed without knife. It is a plastic board with two clear square, plastic plates; a square…

  Today, I’d like to introduce a very popular picture book among Japanese children. It’s the “Kobito-Zukan” series illustrated by Toshitaka Nabata. In Japanese, kobito literary means dwarf, and zukan…

Following the yesterday’s post on “tapehook,” I want to share another artistic paper craft from Torafu Architects.     These skeleton vases in the picture are “air vase,” the vases…

When you go to a Japanese restaurant, you get a wet rolled towel after you take a seat. We call the towel “oshibori” in Japan. Today, I want to introduce…

Today, I want to share this beautiful computer graphic world created by Japanese artists including a Flash artist Roxik and Japanese studio Dwarf (team behind Domo Nation). The Planet Zero…

Living in a seismic country, we have a variety of earthquake safety products. For example, children keep disaster hoods on their chairs at school so that when an earthquake occurred,…

  If you are a big fan of Doraemon, you’ll really need to visit Japan after hearing this news! On September 3rd, the Doraemon museum (Fujiko F. Fujio Museum) opens…

There is a unique guest house called “Nama Nushi House” in Katsushika ward, Tokyo. What makes it special is the house rule that the residents must “do life-casting,” which means…

After I shared the story “A Japanese Science Fan made “GoogleSatTrack” and Invited by NASA,” I got a comment saying that there is more to the story. So I checked…