I’ve never eaten a convenience store bento (boxed lunch) as I am yet to see a vegetarian offering; the best I did when I was single was a Lawson’s tomato pasta, which was particularly disgusting.

I have a couple hints- it is NOT a candle holder and the function of the object (the answer :) has been featured before on a Guess the Gadget!

Enjoy the holiday weekend (if you are in the US), Happy Independence Day!!

This was a classic Fuji film moment

Rock Paper Scissors or the Japanese equivalent Janken Po or Ya-Q-Ken can be fun for grown men and otaku to play especially if your opponent is a sexy Japanese av idol like Mihiro, Asami Yuma or Rio...

Sega Toys introduces the Uchiage Hanabi, a modified planetarium with speakers that brings fireworks indoors to spark up any celebration, no matter what the weather.

Watch Live Streaming of the 3rd ODI between India vs West Indies at St Lucia on 3rd July 2009 . Start time 09.30 (14.30 GMT)

India (probable): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Dinesh Karthik, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja/ Abhishek Nayar, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 RP Singh, 11 Ashish Nehra.

These are so freaking cool!!

Designer D-BROS, you can get one piece of fruit or buy a crate of 6!

Product Page purchase via Rinkya Stores!

Hauled into jail by some rural deputy sheriff and need to pay a fine? If you're in Japan, you can use that one phone call to make an instant cash transfer. Finally, a pay phone that actually pays!

This recent survey from DIMSDRIVE Research into pets had interesting information regarding insurance, but sadly the number of pets per person were not reported, a figure that would have helped in understanding some of the numbers.

If you want to travel to Tokyo this summer and are on a budget, check out this report from Japanese TV show Tokyo Eye (NHK) on cheap Japanese hotels and guest houses in Tokyo.  The video report...

Dental-ivision? It's the ultimate reality show, and besides, what would you rather watch: oral hygiene or Oral Roberts? Thanks to the Miharu Dental Intraoral Plaque Detection Camera, you CAN handle the tooth, right in your own living room.

This plug is a great alternative to bulky power strips and is another ingenious gadget from Japan.

Looks like these cats are trying to get a peek inside the store. I wonder what they can see?

Dont think they got an invite in store

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Natsumi Kamata 鎌田奈津美 is a pretty Japanese gravure idol from Kobe who started modeling in late 2007.  She won Young Sunday High School grand prix 2007  ミスYS乙女学院’07.
This new gravure idol has...

geta, good for walking, but not in todays rain

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I have a friend asking about a Japanese movie she once saw… I’m clueless, need your help!

Anyone out there know what movie this might be?

The vid is old, but it seems to have been recently reperformed, because I saw it on the J News. The "girl" is my fav. Fabulous!

If you`ve been to Japan you`ll recognise lots of these images, if you haven`t then this is a great video showing many different facets of Japan.

This is Japan! from Eric Testroete on Vimeo.

when I went downstairs, I heard the old cleaning man say to the building manager, "the cops came," to which the building manager responded with, "yeah?," to which the cleaning man said, "yeah..." and then I looked around the corner and saw the cle...

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Watch Live Streaming of the 1st ODI between India vs West Indies at Jamaica on 26th June 2009 . Start time 09.30 (14.30 GMT)

For India, a team which is totally shaken by defeat, injury and fatigue, this series is the last before a long break until the Champions Trophy in south africa in September.

India are weakened for they are without Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina and Zaheer Khan, four key players either injured or resting because of their hectic schedule in recent months.

I’ve had cause recently to pick up a new laptop. I didn’t want to go to the expense of buying a hamburger with the lot and truth be told, i don’t need that level of computing at the moment anyway.

With a combination of size and performance being the major concerns i started shopping around the increasingly popular “Mini PC” market and after some due diligence settled on the HP Mini 2140.

In episode 6 of Japan Podshow, George and Joseph, prevented from leaving the house by the start of the rainy season, come to you live from the kitchen table.