This Moving LEGO Escalator is a Stairway to Creative Heaven
You can always count on everyone’s favorite creative engineering block, LEGO, to bring out the childhood imagination in all of us. In the past we’ve…
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This Is How Japan Celebrated April Fool’s Day 2018
Japan has been celebrating April Fool’s Day for many years now, with goods and service companies announcing gag products and unlikely collaborations to showcase their…
A Tokyo Strawberry Fair in a Surprisingly Bloodcurdling Setting
Spring is finally here! Chirping birds, sakura blossoming, strawberry fairs and the bloodcurdling screams of your victims. Just spring things, you know? Source: PR Times…
Japanese Band Send Up Trump with New Robot Dance Video Called ‘Let’s Start WW3’
You may have seen WORLD ORDER’s signature salary-man suits and robotic dance before when the video for their song ‘Have a Nice Day’ became a…
Japanese Farmers Deploy New Terrifying ‘Super Monster Wolf’ Robot Scarecrow
In an agricultural area of Japan, economic losses due to animals damaging crops was rising at an alarming rate. So farmers did the sensible thing…
Kyoto’s “Good Enough To Shag” Otokomae Tofu Celebrates 20th Year With Retro Promo Video
If your idea of variety when it comes to tofu is limited to “soft” and “hard,” you may not have heard of Kyoto’s Otokomae Tofu…
Japanese Instant Noodle Company Imagines Cabbages as Cats to Get People to Stop Throwing Away Their Veggies
In the moment of anticipation after your instant yakisoba packet has finished cooking, and you’ve poured the excess water out, you likely never considered yourself…
Gigantic Lapras Plushie Even Adult Pokemon Fans Can Ride Now Being Sold Online
As children, our imaginations were captured when Ash rode his Lapras across bodies of water to continue his journey in the Pokemon animated series. Ever…
Why Russian Olympic Skater’s Japanese Akita Dog Could Be Both Troublesome and Endearing
There are many things a teenage girl would do to get a puppy, and Alina Zagitova, the Russian figure skater, showed that winning a gold…
Japanese Couple Make Hats for Cats Using Their Own Fur, Turning Them into Donald Trump and Princess Leia
Cat owners universally understand the struggles of dealing with shed fur and have probably resigned themselves to always having a certain amount of it on…
Meet The New Tokyo Olympic Mascots…Who Have Superhero Powers
On Wednesday, a committee of organizers announced the two official mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Ryo Taniguchi, a character designer and…
Japanese Artist’s Amazing Super-Realistic Wearable Animal Heads Are Out Of This World
It wasn’t too long ago that a Japanese art teacher and designer unleashed wearable, hyper-realistic gigantic felt cats heads that both wowed and terrified the…
Chabacco: Sticks of Powdered Green Tea Packaged Like Cigarettes
While green tea and products made with it continue to gain international attention, domestic consumption of simple green tea in Japanese households is sadly on…
Kobe Beef Yakiniku Restaurant Installs Personal Stalls To Appeal To Women And Self-Conscious Solo Diners
Japan’s Abura Nikuhachi is sure to attract many visitors with its melt-in-your-mouth selection of A4-A5 ranked premium wagyu and Kobe Beef, as well as affordable…
That Time Hayao Miyazaki Stood Up To Harvey Weinstein With A Samurai Sword
The legacy that Harvey Weinstein leaves behind will rightfully start and stop with the words “sexual predator”. That twisted legacy, however, is very closely tied…