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If you stroll along the back streets of Akihabara and visit robot sites on the Internet fairly often, it would seem that tiny robots that do increasingly sophisticated little things are popping up regularly in Japan.
Take this interesting pet robot for single geeks announced by Robo Engine the other day.

Diminutive Pyuuun (Weee! in English) uses [...]


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  • Macabre kids’ book art by Gojin Ishihara
    Here is a collection of wonderfully weird illustrations by Gōjin Ishihara, whose work graced the pages of numerous kids’ books in the 1970s. The first 16 images below appeared in the “Illustrated Book of Japanese Monsters” (1972), which profiled supernatural creatures from Japanese legend. The other illustrations appeared in various educational and entertainment-oriented publications for [...]

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  • Karuizawa Cosplay
    Asahi TV reporters Sahel Rosa and Alain visit an antique photo studio in Karuizawa and try on some costumes: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)

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  • Working mothers in Japan
    Here is another very interesting survey from goo Research, a look at child-rearing and working. This is the second time the survey has been conducted, the first time being in December 2007, but I didn’t translate that one. Demographics Between the 24th and 29th of June 2010 exactly 1,000 members of the goo Research online [...]