Bouncing Red Ball

One of the most popular videos in Nico Nico Douga, Japan’s video-sharing community, is this nifty little robot that makes coffee: preparing the cups and dripper, grinding the beans, filtering the coffee and pouring the finished product into a cup.
Hina, a little humanoid robot, is the creation of mujaki (Blog), and is based on Kondo’s [...]

memory is an independent animation film directed by Junichi Yamamoto (山GEん).
Set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by nuclear war, it tells the story of a damaged robot found by futuristic soldiers investigating a devastated area.
The humanoid appeared to be household robot, reminiscent of Asimo, and when the soldiers booted it up, they were able to [...]

Put your plans to see the Giant Gundam of Tokyo on hold.
According to reliable sources, the recently erected Giant Gundam of Tokyo, during the recent thunderstorms that swept through Japan, was struck with lightning in the head and burst into flames.

Firetrucks came to the rescue but was greeted with a headless Gundam.

If only it were [...]

There have been a lot of photos and videos of the Giant Gundam on the Net that it has become almost unnecessary to actually ride a train to Odaiba and see the thing with your own eyes.
Here are three more great videos.

Ohta Industries, in order to show off their metal-bending laser technology, has been building a 1-meter Evangelion Unit 00 figure made from stainless steel scrap metal and titanium. Gigazine went to their factory in in Hyogo Prefecture in central Japan and took photos of the metallic robot figure.
Metallic Evangelion Unit 00: videos
The purple eye and [...]

Imposing night-time photos of the 30th Anniversary Gundam in Odaiba, Tokyo from Pink Tentacle.

This is, of course, the famous Gas Mask Girl (although she wasn’t wearing a real gas mask).
{Moth Kingdom via かせいさんのクリップ}

A number of great Japanese magazine cover designs from the early 1900s posted by Will Schofield, a rare books collector, in his wonderful blog A Journey Round My Skull.

These covers come from Bookcover Design in Japan 1910s-40s (ISBN 4-89444-426-7) edited by Masayo Matsubara. Published in 2005 by PIE Books, this incredible book is already out-of-print [...]