George Tokoro shows off on his show some of the weirdest modified cars in Japan (two-part video), which reminds me of an earlier post Road Monsters of Japan. Via Watashi to Tokyo.Related posts:Tokyo A...

If you’re a Gundam fan, you might be happy to learn that Nippon Travel Agency is now offering the “Green Tokyo Gundam Project Official Tour” through which you can stay at either Grand Pacific Le...

The giant Mobile Suit Gundam now standing in Odaiba in Tokyo won’t be officially open to the public until July 11 but it looks increasingly ready for action by the day. After being fully assembled l...

Shohei’s illustrations, sketched with ballpoint pen, are characterized by sparse use of color, bold lines, high contrast and gritty subjects. “Intense”, as one website (NSFW) put it.Loud and dyn...

Japanese iPhone user ozma2x connects his cellphone to the very fast Denso robotic arm he uses at work. Will they play nice?It turned out that not only did they talk; ozma2x also was able to control an...

A while ago Bouncing Red Ball featured twenty of the narrowest houses and buildings in Japan which drew a lot of responses from people who are probably used to living in mansions with wide open views....

The Tokyo Special Import-Car Show (SIS) which ran from June 19 to 21 in Tokyo Big Sight exhibited about 1,000 imported customized foreign supercars which drew multitudes of car enthusiasts from all ov...

One of the most popular videos in Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s video-sharing community, is this nifty little robot that makes coffee: preparing the cups and dripper, grinding the beans, filtering the co...

Launched in September 14, 2007, Japan’s Kaguya (a.k.a. SELENE) successfully completed its mission of collecting data on the Earth’s satellite and was terminated by a controlled collision on the lu...

memory is an independent animation film directed by Junichi Yamamoto (山GEん).Set in a post-apocalyptic world (around 2050) destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by f...

Put your plans to see the Giant Gundam of Tokyo on hold.According to reliable sources, the recently erected Giant Gundam of Tokyo, during the recent thunderstorms that swept through Japan, was struck ...

Ohta Industries, in order to show off their metal-bending laser technology, has been building a 1-meter Evangelion Unit 00 figure made from stainless steel scrap metal and titanium. Gigazine went to t...

There have been a lot of photos and videos of the Giant Gundam on the Net that it has become almost unnecessary to actually ride a train to Odaiba and see the thing with your own eyes.Here are three m...

This is, of course, the famous Gas Mask Girl (although she wasn’t wearing a real gas mask).{Moth Kingdom via かせいさんのクリップ}Related posts:Robo Japan 2008: Hello Kitty Robo...

Imposing night-time photos of the 30th Anniversary Gundam in Odaiba, Tokyo from Pink Tentacle.Related posts:18-meter Mobile Suit Gundam rises in TokyoGiant Gundam under construction, joins campaign fo...

A number of great Japanese magazine cover designs from the early 1900s posted by Will Schofield, a rare books collector, in his wonderful blog A Journey Round My Skull.These covers come from Bookcover...

Fujitsu announced today that it has succeeded in achieving super-fast transfer rates of more than 10 gigabits per second using an impulse connection system on a 70-100 GHz band. The technology might p...

Gundam is alive! Or, at least, he’s already standing unsupported. {Photo by Mainichi}As reported earlier, this giant 35-ton, 18-meter badass Gundam is set to be unveiled in Odaiba, Tokyo on July 11 ...

Mount Fuji, easily visible from the Tokyo metropolis, is the highest mountain of Japan and one of the most recognizable mountains in the world.Especially in winter, its graceful cone is topped with a ...

Flickr user and blogger gomhi shows off his self-made eggshell speakers:I made some speakers using eggshells as cabinets. While there’s no bass, I’m very satisfied at the nice feel of the sound fr...