Needles to say, pasta is a true Italian original. We Japanese love pasta, and there is a surprisingly large amount  of Italian restaurants in Japan. Today, I would like…

Four small and medium-sized enterprises from Kansai area made a rickshaw-like electric car, “Meguru” as a part of “Appare EV Project.” The name meguru is written “環” which is from…

Wow. Look at this (o_O) The bar in this photo is made with ice blocks! It looks freezing but very beautiful, doesn’t it?     This bar is in a…

This is a series of makeup videos by a Japanese girl from Niconico live broadcasting. Making comical anime voice, she shows how she puts makeup before she goes to work….

  When you drive Japanese national road, you sometimes see loudly decorated trucks called “decotora” meaning “decoration truck (decorated truck).” They are gorgeously painted and have stainless exterior parts and…

  The video below is “how to make eyeball like jelly” from a Japanese video sharing website, Niconico Douga. The eyeballs are made from agar and edible.   How to…

I found an interesting upcoming product called “ningen gakki”. In Japanese, ningen means “human”, and gakki is “musical instrument”. Speaking of human musical instruments, you may think of people who can…

SEGA, a Japanese game company is now testing its new game machine for public bathrooms at bars and game arcades in Tokyo area.     The toilet game machine “Toilets”…

The toy that a pair of eyes blinks like a creature, “Nikodama” was released last summer, and it has caught a large attention from consumers in Japan.     The…

I guess many people enjoyed the onigiri recipe from “Cooking with Dog” (^^)! So today, I would like to introduce another simple recipe for a Japanese dish. It’s called “agedashi tofu”….

Even if you are not a film freak, you would probably know R2-D2, a robot character in Star Wars movies. It seems people find that his shape is quite usable;…