It's good to own land picked by gammerus 1 year ago

A 71-year-old farmer has found a unique solution to Japan's chronic shortage of space: grow 11 different kinds of fruit on a single tree. Sure beats eating fruit cocktail from a can! picked by mitzuzake 8 months ago

Wasabi, or Japanese Horseradish, has a particularly pungent taste and scent. Now researchers in Japan are using Wasabi's overpowering odor in a new type of smoke detector / fire alarm that wakes the deaf through scent instead of sound. picked by Mitzuzake 5 months ago

Did anyone else know there was baseball still being played in November? Yeah, me neither. picked by Wingnut 2 years ago

...no one applied, for the first time in its recorded history. picked by kxmk 1 year ago

This puts a whole new twist on that Friends' song "Smelly Cat":

Mice are naturally terrified of cats, and usually panic or flee at the smell of one. But mice with certain nasal cells removed through genetic engineering didn't display any fear. picked by henkspaan 8 months ago

Japan launched a rocket Saturday carrying a satellite that will test new technology that promises to deliver "super high-speed Internet", many times faster than what is now available over residential cable or DSL services service to homes and businesses around the world. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

Sweet Breast Pudding - twin rounded mounds of jiggling, milk-flavored pudding topped with a cherry or vanilla "nipple". picked by Mitzuzake 4 months ago

4 to 7 are the cleverest, as for why I don't know. picked by camro77 1 year ago

Wonderful photography of many different cultures. My favorite gallery is of the infamous love hotels of Japan, its really fascinating. picked by queenofhearts 9 months ago

"Save the Cheerleader, save the whales"... Hayden Panettiere, the cute young actress from Heroes, recently performed another role: bringing attention to a traditional dolphin hunt in Japan. Next stop, a Montana feed lot... NOT picked by mitzuzake 10 months ago

Toyota has begun building malls stocked with their cars, since consumers in Japan would rather cruise the shops than shop for a cruiser. picked by Mitzuzake 5 months ago

Getting tigers to mate is definitely as dangerous as it sounds. picked by carguy4life 2 months ago

Cute adorable Kewpie dolls, they've been delighting little children and bringing smiles to faces since 1909. Then Japan discovered them and things went terribly, horribly wrong... picked by mitzuzake 9 months ago

Sony Corp sold about 250,000 units of the new version of the PlayStation Portable in Japan in the four days since its launch. picked by punthe 11 months ago

Sony Corp said it will launch four models of new Blu-ray high-definition optical disc recorders in November in Japan, as its format battle with the HD DVD camp heats up. picked by punthe 11 months ago

The mystery of who is leaving envelopes of 10,000 yen ($82) bills in men's toilets at government offices around Japan has gripped the Japanese public. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

I saw there was an article about the fastest train but no clip, here is the clip, 500KM/h train. picked by niceplime 12 months ago

The novelty of $4,300 "communication robot" Ifbot wore off after about a month of active service in a Kyoto nursing home, with elderly residents preferring the silent, unconditional love of teddy bears. picked by suebe 11 months ago

Somehow in Japan this passes for a public toilet. Apparently you just kind of squat over it. picked by theamelianator 9 months ago