Bouncing Red Ball

If you’re a Gundam fan, you might be happy to learn that Nippon Travel Agency is now offering the “Green Tokyo Gundam Project Official Tour” through which you can stay at either Grand Pacific Le Daiba or Hotel Nikko Tokyo in Odaiba, where you can gaze at the Giant Gundam from your room and sleep [...]

The giant Mobile Suit Gundam now standing in Odaiba in Tokyo won’t be officially open to the public until July 11 but it looks increasingly ready for action by the day.
After being fully assembled last week, technicians are now testing its arsenal of lights, smoke and sound before the official “unveiling” two weeks from [...]

Shohei’s illustrations, sketched with ballpoint pen, are characterized by sparse use of color, bold lines, high contrast and gritty subjects. “Intense”, as one website (NSFW) put it.
Loud and dynamic, Shohei’s artworks are illustrative of Japan’s manga-influenced style of drawing.
Many of his illustrations (four of which are shown below) are displayed at Hakuchi Land; many are [...]

Japanese iPhone user ozma2x connects his cellphone to the very fast Denso robotic arm he uses at work. Will they play nice?
It turned out that not only did they talk; ozma2x also was able to control and monitor the robot in real time with the iPhone using Wi-Fi.
It’s pretty impressive that a standard cellphone [...]

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 Tokyo Special Import-Car Show (SIS) which ran from June 19 to 21 in Tokyo Big Sight exhibited about 1,000 imported customized foreign supercars which drew multitudes of car enthusiasts from all over Japan.
As a side show, there was also the Import Anime Car (Itasha) Show in SiS which featured imported foreign cars painted with [...]

Launched in September 14, 2007, Japan’s Kaguya (a.k.a. SELENE) successfully completed its mission of collecting data on the Earth’s satellite and was terminated by a controlled collision on the lunar surface on June 11, 2009.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which supervised the mission, just released Kaguya’s final motion picture shots of the Moon’s surface [...]

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 [...]