smart phones
Flipping genius? Japan is getting a new flip phone/smartphone hybrid【Photos】
-
Casey Baseel
Oct 13, 2023 - Tweet
- Japan
- (cool • crazy • flip phones • gara kei • phones • smart phones • technology • weird)
Live your life hands-free and let these huge hands from Village Vanguard hold everything for you
-
Dale Roll
Jun 1, 2021
- Japan
- (funny • gag • gag gift • hands • hands free • smart phones • Village Vanguard)
Want to know who voices that one character in the anime you’re watching? There’s an app for that
-
Dale Roll
Dec 26, 2020
With the magic of smartphones, find out who’s starring in an anime while barely even lifting a finger.
- Japan
- (anime • app • fandom • otaku • smart phones • voice actors • voice actresses)
Taiwanese ice skating fans come to the rescue when power blacks out during skaters’ performance
-
Dale Roll
Feb 2, 2018
What do you do when the power goes out during your favorite sport? Bust out your cellphone, of course!
MOST POPULAR
Now
- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
- Japanese city loses residents’ personal data, which was on paper being transported on a windy day
- Harajuku Station’s beautiful old wooden building is set to return, with a new complex around it
- Suntory x Super Mario collaboration creates a clever way to transform into Mario【Videos】
- Ghibli Park now selling “Grilled Frogs” from food cart in Valley of Witches
- Historical figures get manga makeovers from artists of Spy x Family, My Hero Academia and more
- Heartwarming response to Twitter question confirms that yes, Tikuwa_0913, there is a Santa Claus
- Akihabara pop-up shop sells goods made by Japanese prison inmates
- Red light district sushi restaurant in Tokyo shows us just how wrong we were about it
- Smash Bros. director Sakurai stabs Kirby in the face, has delicious justification for it
Weekly
- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
- Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
- French Fries Bread in Tokyo’s Shibuya becomes a hit on social media
- Studio Ghibli releases new action figures featuring Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind characters
- New private rooms on Tokaido Shinkansen change the way we travel from Tokyo to Kyoto
- Red light district sushi restaurant in Tokyo shows us just how wrong we were about it
- Tokyo Tsukiji fish market site to be redeveloped with 50,000-seat stadium, hotel, shopping center
- All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge
- Beautiful Ghibli sealing wax kits let you create accessories and elegant letter decorations【Pics】
Monthly
- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- Foreigner’s request for help in Tokyo makes us sad for the state of society
- Studio Ghibli releases Kiki’s Delivery Service chocolate cake pouches in Japan
- New definition of “Japanese whiskey” goes into effect to prevent fakes from fooling overseas buyers
- Our Japanese reporter visits Costco in the U.S., finds super American and very Japanese things
- Studio Ghibli unveils Mother’s Day gift set that captures the love in My Neighbour Totoro
- Japanese ramen restaurants under pressure from new yen banknotes
- All-you-can-drink Starbucks and amazing views part of Tokyo’s new 170 meter-high sky lounge
- More foreign tourists than ever before in history visited Japan last month
- New Pokémon cakes let you eat your way through Pikachu and all the Eevee evolutions
Yearly
- McDonald’s new Happy Meals offer up cute and practical Sanrio lifestyle goods
- Sales of Japan’s most convenient train ticket/shopping payment cards suspended indefinitely
- Sold-out Studio Ghibli desktop humidifiers are back so Totoro can help you through the dry season
- Japanese government to make first change to romanization spelling rules since the 1950s
- Ghibli founders Toshio Suzuki and Hayao Miyazaki contribute to Japanese whisky Totoro label design
- Doraemon found buried at sea as scene from 1993 anime becomes real life【Photos】
- Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
- One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions
- We asked a Uniqlo employee what four things we should buy and their suggestions didn’t disappoint
- Princesses, fruits, and blacksmiths: Study reveals the 30 most unusual family names in Japan
RECOMMENDED STORIES
- Historical figures get manga makeovers from artists of Spy x Family, My Hero Academia and more
- Heartwarming response to Twitter question confirms that yes, Tikuwa_0913, there is a Santa Claus
- Akihabara pop-up shop sells goods made by Japanese prison inmates
- Red light district sushi restaurant in Tokyo shows us just how wrong we were about it
- Smash Bros. director Sakurai stabs Kirby in the face, has delicious justification for it
- Japanese shiitake mushroom snacks from Don Quijote, created for people who don’t like mushrooms
- The oldest tunnel in Japan is believed to be haunted, and strange things happen when we go there
- Japan’s “Gap Tent” for solo campers fits just about anywhere, weighs almost nothing
- Japanese high school students hatch chick without an eggshell during class【Video】
- The results are in! One Piece World Top 100 characters chosen in global poll
- Japan’s massive matcha parfait weighs 6 kilos, contains hidden surprises for anyone who eats it
- Japan’s new manhole cover T-shirts let you show off your local prefectural pride
- Lola’s Cupcakes and Magnolia Bakery bring out sakura cupcakes in Japan for a limited time
- Tokyo lesbian love anime art/photography exhibition cancelled, thighs suspected as sticking point
-
Categories
Archives