Not only women but young men take time to set their hair in Japan. The recent trend hairstyle is short to medium short length “volume on top.” Adding volume…

  Here is a cool video of high school students who perform trash throwing tricks at school. They are in [W:Okinawa], and call themselves K.G.S.   [Part1]  

  This beautiful humanoid girl got talent! She can sing and dance!     Her name is “HRP-4C” or stage name “Mimu (pronounced Meemu),” and she has got media’s attentions at…

  Next month the Japanese electric company, SANYO, introduces the world first rice bread cooker: GOPAN. GOPAN = gohan (rice) + pan (bread). Recently, rice bread has become very popular…

    Can you believe that you can paint the cherry blossoms above in only 5 minutes? There is this video on YouTube instructing how to paint Japanese style cherry…

  An IT and electronics exhibition, CEATEC JAPAN 2010 has been held this week at Makuharimesse, in Mihama-ku, Chiba City, [W:Chiba Prefecture]. Various robots from both Japan and overseas are…

  I have written about “train freak” girls called tetsuko before.  It seems there are more than twenty categories of train freaks (tetsudo otaku) nowadays! Each one has his or…

  You might have heard of Japanese taxis’ automatic doors, but have you actually ever seen them? Maybe not, because the automatic taxi doors are very unusual and unique to…

  Toilet tissues are sometimes folded into triangles, like in this photo below. Supposedly this fold signifies that “the cleaning is done”.     One day, a blogger thought that…

  A free iPhone application released last month, “iBenjo” caught quite attentions among Japanese iPhone users. “Benjo” means lavatory, and what it does it making water sounds to cover the…

  While many apartment designers try to make apartments that suit all tastes, usually practical, convenient, and simple to that the tenants can decorate in their ways later when they…