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 [...]

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 [...]

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.