Ironically, coming from the land of the tiny, Japan has beaten the rest of the world with the biggest McDonald's fries you've ever seen. It's not just super-sized anymore, it's simply humongous. Meet the epically-named "Mega Potato". Now you're making me hungry. Read More >>
If you listen to the architect Kengo Kuma, the craze for kyosho jutaku, that distinctly Japanese variant of the micro home, started in the thirteenth century, when the poet Kamo no Chomei penned an essay about the joys of living in a shack called An Account of My Hut. Contemporaneously speaking, though, micro homes became a thing in the 1990s, when rising real estate prices and a nagging recession spurred many young Tokyo residents to reconsider suburbia. Read More >>
Featured comment by Shallow Depression:
"Look at these and now tell me that:
http://io9.com/the-greatest-homes-made-from-shipping-containers-around-453393451" More »
Oh Japan, how we love thee. Although I have no idea why your stereotypical fascination with women's pants extends to gadgets, it's nice to see you catering for everyone's tastes regardless of how weird they are. Available in briefs, thongs, boxers and classic budgie-smugglers, there's something for everyone. Read More >>
A New Zealand man has been given a three-month prison sentence for possessing weird Japanese cartoon porn, with the odd scenes of elves, trolls and pixies bonking each other deemed illegal by his country's enforcers. Read More >>
Featured comment by chkenwing:
""4D" is pretty immense though!
I went to the Transformers 4D ride in Singapore and that was pretty damn awesome! It even had a heater that got hott..." More »
In Japan, just like on the continent, they love their beer with a healthy head of foam. Which explains why gadgets like the self-frothing beer mug, and now this ultrasonic frother even exist. Read More >>
The aptly named Skyward House is relatively secluded from some angles. But it actually faces a pretty well-trafficked road, so the architect had to design it with features that make it feel private. Read More >>
While there's no doubt that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima back in 2011 could have been avoided, a recent discovery suggests that this week's extended blackout was entirely out of their of hands. Instead, the loss of power lies in the diabolical paws of a now deceased, foresight-lacking rat. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"I read this as the wiring being behind a console, so after it had left any ducting.
Of course that kinda makes it worse that they have rats there,
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Two years ago yesterday, Japan was ravaged by a horrible tsunami. And now, right on the anniversary of the disaster, there's a new memorial to the people and things who lived through it: the "miracle tree" that survived the surge has now been converted into a sculpture. Read More >>
Featured comment by Shadowise:
""the pine eventually died due to its newly barren surroundings, but not before it could be chopped down and have its trunk dismantled for preservation..." More »
This bucolic Japanese bathroom is a temporary installation at Tokyo's House Vision Expo. There should be no question as to whether you'd pee in it. As long as you don't defile the bushes, that would be the best bathroom experience of your life. Read More >>
There's a newly enhanced robot helper about to assist in cleansing the streets (and nuclear dead zones) of Japan, with this latest "disaster recovery" exoskeleton supposedly only a year away from being put into service. Read More >>
Featured comment by worldranger:
"Wha? Shouldn't they demo this thing helping a guy do something cool - like lifting a car - or something? Power Squats man!" More »
Somewhere in between the honour of getting a bronze statue of yourself and the shame of re-creating your sexual organs in plastic is this awesome gummy-bear-yourself service. You can basically create a gummy replica of yourself to eat. It looks absolutely delicious. Read More >>
Sony's big PS4 announcement event claimed the machine will see a launch at the end of 2013. But where? America? Japan? Here? Everywhere? Just on the International Space Station? Even Sony doesn't seem to know the answer to that one yet. Read More >>
Featured comment by LiamT:
"sony have said games wont be any more expensive, so they should stay £50 RRP and about 340 in shops.
i think its just placeholders to be honest. ..." More »
There's a game. It's from Japan. It's called Custom Maid 3D. It comes with a very unique controller which, and there's no nice way of phrasing this, you stick your little chap into and hump away in front of images of computer generated ladies. Read More >>
Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs has been placing fake pirated material up on the country's most popular file-sharing networks, which attempt to shame media-stealers into changing their ways by delivering a polite warning once downloaded. Read More >>
Featured comment by thelawr:
"Actually the most fool proof would be to do exactly what various corporations are doing to kill their own business. Switch the illegal downloads for v..." More »
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