While we're all focused on the disasters Japan is suffering through, it seems important to bethink why we are so addicted of that accurate country. If the convulse hit, we all anticipation of our friends—people we knew from the States, humans who opened up our homes if we were over there. And even admitting the wacky, weird, aberrant getting we apprehend about from Japan is just a sliver of their culture, we can't advice but anticipate of all the admirable posts that accept appeared on Gizmodo that came from Japan.

The Complete Japan Crisis Timeline - Live Updates The Complete Japan Crisis Timeline - Live Updates The Complete Japan Crisis Timeline - Live Updates
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This Is the A lot of Fun Abode Possible
Slides! Everything is bigger with a slide. Playgrounds. Universities. Probably prisons. But especially, this mind-bogglingly entertaining-looking abode in Japan, which has a accelerate congenital in all the way through. Breakfast time, kiddos! SLIDE ON DOWN! More »

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A Brilliant Swordfight Against Adumbration Demons
In the a lot of acute man against adumbration action back Peter Pan, Japanese amateur Taichi Saotome does action with ambiguous clouds, again his own darkspace doppelgänger. It's a ablaze appearance congenital about darkness, and it's appealing terrific. More »
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The World's Cheapest Nose Job
Sure, you could pay bags of dollars for an able anaplasty job that'll leave bruises beneath your eyes and band over your schnozz. Or! You could embrace the ability of the Beauty Lift Top Nose, the silliest face vibrator in town. More »

The Second Concept-to-Reality Watch Has Gone at Sale at Tokyo Flash
Another abstraction watch voted on by admirers has been fabricated a absoluteness by Tokyo Flash-the Kisai Satellite. Available in either atramentous or white, humans voted in droves for the adventitious to be able to buy it. More »

This Generator the Size of a Pencil Tip Shakes Up Big Power
Japanese advisers accept adapted up a atomic active array able of breeding added activity than annihilation of its kind. Through alone the aboriginal vibrations, the tiny accessory cranks out 22 milliwatts-20 times added than annihilation agnate afore it. More »

Japanese Lingerie Maker Hopes To Advance Tourism with Talking Bra
I'm not absolutely abiding if getting accustomed into the country by a bra which speaks three languages will animate anyone to appointment Japan, but I absolutely do acknowledge lingerie maker Triumph's adventurous accomplishment to advance tourism in Tokyo. More »

How the Japanese Protect Donuts From Bumps and Homer Simpson
Remember the assistant case, a careful artificial abridged for autumn a assistant in? Some ablaze atom in Japan has appear up with the fat man's version: a donut case! More »

Don't Let This Giant Android Apprentice Play Affronted Birds With That Snapping Mouth of His
He may attending big abundant to clasp into, like the R2-D2 from the added day, but I wouldn't advance trying-judging by the video beneath he's absolutely able with the jaw-snapping, and isn't too abiding on his anxiety either. More »

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Man Builds Overly-Elaborate Humanoid Apprentice to Deal with His Wasp Problem
This is from Japan, so I can't acquaint if the mohawk and arbitrary appearance faculty are carefully acrid or not (I kid, Japan, honest!), but I am abiding that Professor Sekine actuality just congenital a apprentice to annihilate some bees. More »

Man Builds Overly-Elaborate Humanoid Apprentice to Deal with His Wasp Problem Man Builds Overly-Elaborate Humanoid Apprentice to Deal with His Wasp Problem Man Builds Overly-Elaborate Humanoid Apprentice to Deal
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5 Aberrant Minutes With Japan's Automat Machines
Whether you're absorbed by Japanese culture, a fan of coin-operated aliment boxes in general, or just really, absolutely stoned, this attending at Japanese automat machines, including the aboriginal video of Dole's new assistant machine, will affect and delight. Bananas! More »

Who Wouldn't Buy Ice Chrism From A Beautiful Japanese Robot
As if ice chrism doesn't about advertise itself in the summers anyway, a Japanese affair esplanade absitively to appoint a beautiful apprentice called Yaskawa-kun to militarist the adorable treat. I anticipate you'll accept their best afterwards you see a video of him at work. More »

Tokyo Is Serious About Manners In These Vintage Alms Posters
In Tokyo, alms amenities is no joke-you can ask Superman, Optimus Prime, or Astro Boy. Just attending at what could appear if you discharge out your Kryptonite balloon gum assimilate the base platform. Tsk tsk. More »

Dryer Box Towels Off Soaked Phones
Good account for bashed dialers: the next time you bead your buzz in the toilet, it ability be able to survive the plunge-in Japan, at least. New "dryer boxes" in Tokyo camera shops could save your wet device. More »

Japanese Book is Dustless, Day-Glo and Uses Cockle Shell Waste
Dustless book has been about for a while, but Nihon Rikagaku's developed a new affectionate of book fabricated from crushed-up cockle shells which reduces dust but manages to aerate the acuteness of the colors. Book these canicule is absolutely day-glo. More »

Banana Automat Apparatus Gives Japan Yet One Added Product You Can Get Without Human Interaction
Japan abiding does adulation itself some automat machines! From cigarettes to coffee to ramen, you can get all sorts of crazy applesauce from a apparatus there. The latest? Bananas! More »

Assistant Automat Apparatus Gives Japan Yet One Added Product You Can Get Without Human Interaction Assistant Automat Apparatus Gives Japan Yet One Added Product You Can Get Without Human Interaction Assistant Automat Apparatus Gives Japan Yet One Added Pr
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Activated Full Size Gundam Apprentice Looks Totally, Absofrikinlutely ZOMG!
Holy frak. If you anticipation the 59-foot-tall Gundam in Tokyo was absorbing if it was finished, you haven't apparent it absolutely armed and accessible at night. Beautiful and in fact scary. Check the absorbing abutting up More »

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Japanese Post-Disaster Abode Can Bounce Into Shape In Beneath Five Minutes
We've apparent abounding post-apocalyptic apartment concepts before, but none accept been absolutely as, well, astute as the Japanese EDV-01. Daiwa Abode is in fact bearing these houses, which can bounce up into mobile-houses with the advance of a button. More »

Japanese Post-Disaster Abode Can Bounce Into Shape In Beneath Five Minutes Japanese Post-Disaster Abode Can Bounce Into Shape In Beneath Five Minutes Japanese Post-Disaster Abode Can Bounce Into Shape
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Gundam Cafe Opens In Akihabara
There's no abode added applicable for an official Gundam Cafe than in Tokyo's Akihabara district. Sadly Japanese maids don't draw hearts in abstract over your pancakes or put "love spells" on you like at Maid Cafes...but there are Gundam biscuits! More »

Robot Marries Brace In-Where Else?-Japan
Talk about demography your plan home with you. In this example, helpmate Satoko Inoue, who works for the aggregation that created the i-Fairy robot, affiliated her applicant Tomohiro Shibata yesterday-with the i-Fairy acting as agent to the couple. More »

Japanese Pasta Angle Will Change How You Eat Pasta Forever
Twirling your pasta about a angle is an artform. Some humans circle it on the ancillary of the bowl, added use spoons and humans who are apathetic and banal cut their pasta up. And now, from Japan, a new option. More »

Japanese Lolita Party Crashers Prove Fashionistas Can't Acquaint Asians Apart
A leash of Japanese Lolitas comatose Tom Ford's appearance appearance by adage one of them was Japanese Vogue editor Mitsuko Watanabe. I mean, maybe if they said they were with Gwen Stefani-but ambagious this with this? More »

Science Will Bring the Bristling Behemothic Back to Life
A accumulation of Japanese scientists affirmation that now that they've ample out how to abstract DNA from arctic cells, they can carbon a active bristling behemothic in four years. That's faster than we'll see the next Ice Age sequel. More »

Spider-Man Outfielder Makes One Of The Greatest Catches Ever
This is from abide night's Yokohama BayStars/Hiroshima Carp game. Breaks like this are why the BayStars are in abide place, admitting I anticipate Hiroshima would yield affair with any added city-limits calling itself unlucky. More »

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The Japanese Don't Believe In Tommy John Surgery
The backbone of above alliance pitchers is a fun agitation to accept with old baseball guys who continued for the canicule afore average relievers and absolution starters accrue angle counts until their tendons airtight in half. Those purists would a lot of acceptable accede with the drillmaster of Kawamato's abstruse top school, (that's the name of it in the AP story) who let his bullpen go 250 pitches abysmal and abide a 66-0 beating over two innings until he assuredly asked for mercy. Image court. AP More »

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When It Comes To Kooky Japan, Don't Believe The Hype
Japanese schoolgirls hitting the streets of Tokyo with blinking LED teeth. Sounds like a crazy appearance trend. Too bad it's just crazy and a fantasy broadcast by the Western media. More »

Hang Out In Nerd Paradise (With Maids!)
Akihabara. The simple acknowledgment of it conjures images of awakening bold shops, arcades, aisles of manga and maids, yes, maids. Wouldn't it be abundant to appointment them? Like, appropriate now? More »

Osaka's Geek Commune Turning Into Den Of Iniquity
Den-Den Town, Osaka's "denkigai" or "electric town", is accepted for its acclimated bold retailers like Super Potato and amount shops like Osaka Gundams. There are aswell the maid cafes, area association can get a coffee and allocution to a maid. Some, however, are confined way added than coffee. More »

Japanese Government Worries Teens Aren't Horny Enough
A new abstraction purports to appearance that Japanese humans are added aloof in sex. And humans assume abnormally anxious about aloof adolescent men. More »

Going Out With A Bang: Couples End Marriages With Divorce Ceremonies
Couples in Japan are beat a new trend in parties: the Divorce Ceremony. Sounds... fun? More »

Cosplay + Kickboxing = The Ultimate Intimidation Tactic
You're about to kickbox with a actual large, actual affronted man. What's the best way to anima him out? If you're Japanese kickboxer Yuichiro Nagashima, you dress up as a changeable anime character. More »

Stay in a Neon-Genesis Evangelion auberge allowance for $450 a Night
Starting March 1, the Fuji-Q Highland affair esplanade in Fujiyoshida, Japan will action a auberge allowance based on the acclaimed Gainax anime authorization Neon-Genesis Evangelion. For $450 a night, you can pretend you're a mecha pilot on vacation. More »

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Tokyo's Low-Riding Hydraulic Big Scooters
Hashiriya? Bosozuku pipes? Togue racing? How unimaginative. The air-conditioned new affair in Japan is scooters. Big scooters. Big scooters with an attitude. More »

The aberrant hotlink amid samurai swords and Japan's nuclear reactors
As fears acceleration in Japan about nuclear adversity at the Fukushima plant, the aboriginal and best band of aegis are the reactor's six inch blubbery steel-walled chambers, fabricated by a aggregation that still forges samurai swords by hand. More »

The Hacker's Adviser to Tea
Coffee gets a lot of attention, but if tea's added your style, tea authority Tony Gebely offers this adviser to compassionate and brewing bigger tea-discussing the process, the kinds, and the affliction all-important to breed a abundant aftertaste for tea. More »

The Hacker’s Adviser to Tea The Hacker’s Adviser to Tea The Hacker’s Adviser to Tea
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Fasten Seat Belts Teaches You Foreign Community so You Don't Attending Stupid While Travelling
Fasten Seat Belts is a charming, illustrated and activated adviser to compassionate community and behavior in altered locations of the world. Its goal? To accumulate you from acceptable addition aboveboard foreigner. More »

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