Bouncing Red Ball

A while ago Bouncing Red Ball featured twenty of the narrowest houses and buildings in Japan which drew a lot of responses from people who are probably used to living in mansions with wide open views.
Incidentally, a “mansion” in Japan is usually a cramped communal housing complex, not the grand dwelling that it is known [...]

The reason why foreigners (and some Japanese) don’t like natto is probably because they don’t stir it well. 30 to 50 times is the optimal range to get a nice and even gooey blob.
Taking that idea further, a Japanese asked herself, “What will I get if I stir a bowl of natto 10,000 times?” Interesting [...]

Whoaa!
The look on the schoolboy’s face is priceless.
Don’t you just love cleaning time after class when you were in grade school? Brings back good memories of classroom camaraderie, of endless chatter, and above all, of cute female classmates.
This little guy will no doubt have fond memories for years to come.

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What is it like to scrub the head of the Ushiku Daibutsu, one of the tallest statues in the world? One crazy guy finds out.
It’s one thing to look up at this 120-meter giant statue and quite another to stand on its head, with a cleaning rag on one hand. With only a rope preventing [...]