Great videos of La Machine’s gigantic spiders prowling the streets of Yokohama. The giant arachnids from Nantes, France are part of the months-long program of events that celebrates the 150th opening of Yokohama Port.
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As if giant reptiles and radioactive moths are not enough, Gundam has to take care of another menace that has invaded the shores of metropolitan Tokyo.
As preparations for the 150th anniversary of the opening of Yokohama Port get underway, French technicians have been surreptitiously assembling the appendages of [The Spider], two which will be unleashed [...]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a Quicktime VR panorama may be worth ten times more. (Depending on your equipment, it may take up to 10 images or more to stitch a panoramic picture.) So for you out there who long to visit Tokyo but have neither time nor money to do [...]
Robots, robots, robots. Robots of every size and shape. The Robo Japan 2008 exhibition will open its doors tomorrow in Pacifico Yokohama. I hope I can get decent pictures.
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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
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Pink Tentacle
- Ultra Monster paintings by Toshio OkazakiA pair of action-packed Ultraman Monster paintings by Toshio Okazaki were published in Shōgakukan's 1979 edition of Ultra Kaiju (Shōgakukan Nyūmon Hyakka Series #97). [+] [+] Alien Guts, Windam, Gyango, Black End, Kingsaurus III, Bemstar Alien Icarus, Gomora, Muruchi, Alien Baltan, Alien Magma, Kemular Dancan, Giradorus, Astromons Gandar, Gabora, Alien Metron, Agira, Antlar, Seabozu, Woo [...]
Japan Probe
- Japanese Police Shut Down Chinese Brothel Near Yokosuka BaseJapanese police have raided a Chinese massage parlor in Yokosuka and arrested 24 people: The parlor, which was located near an American naval base, had actually been a brothel offering illegal sex services to members of the American military. It managers and the women who worked there were Chinese. The Yomiuri Shimbun has reported the [...]
What Japan Thinks
- Aozora and electronic books in general in JapanIf you’re a learner of Japanese, or just wanting to get hold of classics of Japanese literature, the free repository Aozora is a good place to start, but judging by this survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into Aozora, it’s not that well-known. Demographics Over the 19th and 20th of August 2010 [...]
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