In the winter of 1992, All Nippon Airways (ANA) held a contest to design one of its Boeing 747 jets. The result was Marine Jumbo, a whale-shaped airplane decorated with sea creatures and designed by Yukie Ogaki, then a 6th-grade schoolgirl.
The highly successful and much publicized design was soon followed in 1996 by another 747 [...]
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The Media Arts Festival Executive Committee, composed of people from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, the National Art Center and CG-ARTS Association, has announced the winners of the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival. 2,091 works from 43 countries and regions were evaluated to come up with winners in Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. [...]
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- Crazy custom cars in Japan
- 10 awesome views of Tokyo’s Giant Gundam
- Tokyo’s giant Gundam is geared for battle
- Shohei Otomo’s intense illustration art
- iPhone meets Denso robotic arm, coolness ensues
- Tokyo: even the rest rooms are claustrophobic
- Import anime car overload in Tokyo
- Lunar probe Kaguya’s final shots of the Moon
- Hina: nifty little humanoid robot makes coffee — and a cute face while offering it up to you
- memory, a short film by Junichi Yamamoto
- » Picture of the Day: Japan in ruins | Blog | Ningin: [...] More of these pictures can be seen here. [...]
- Speak Japanese: Terminator factories!! Imagine an earthquake hitting one of these!
- Pearl Fujita: that wiesman car is soo sexy, very sleek, would love to take a ride it that
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This blog is about robots, gadgets, travel and hiking. In Japan.
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Pink Tentacle
- YumeAnimation and music by Shunsuke Saito. + Video
Japan Probe
- Sea Shepherd member arrested for illegally boarding Japanese ship“I’m not interested in Japan. I’m not interested. I don’t care if everybody in Japan supports us or doesn’t support us.” – Paul Watson, president of Sea Shepherd On Friday, a whaling ship returned to Japan carrying Pete Bethune, a member of the radical animal rights group Sea Shepherd. As soon as it [...]
What Japan Thinks
- Are the rumours about Japanese girls schools true?I am occasionally accused (quite rightly!) of spicing up story titles, but today this survey from goo Ranking needs no extra help from me, when they asked what rumours about Japanese girls schools are they curious to find out if they are true or not. Demographics Between the 20th and 22nd of January 2010 1,071 members of [...]
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