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Lots of cool prizes to be won from this Cup Noodle Quest campaign Nissin is running. Cup Noodle headset for your next zoom meeting:
cupnoodle.jp/quest/
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After the Great Tohoku Earthquake 10 years ago, this company began making kokeshi doll flashlights that activate when they are toppled over: shimanuki.co.jp/products/akari…
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Studio Ghibli (@JP_GHIBLI) has been tweeting images of Mei and Satsuki’s home being built in the new Ghibli Park and I can’t 😭😭😭
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At the NBA pre-games, being held at the Saitama Arena, the courts were mopped by robots developed by Nissan. Gotta love the teammates cheering on the mops 😂
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West Japan Railway is rolling out humanoid robotic railway construction vehicles that will perform dangerous repairs:
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In the wake of #COVID19 an old Japanese folklore has recently resurfaced.
According to legend, a yokai called アマビエ (Amabie) emerged from the sea and told locals how to combat a coming epidemic: “draw a picture of me and show it to everyone”
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New favorite Japanese word game. Each person is secretly assigned A~H and you have to guess which they’re acting out just by the way they say the word:
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Reporter: Have you seen Demon Slayer?
Miyazaki: No. But I hardly watch anything. No TV. No movies. I’m just a retired old man picking up garbage.
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For the next game:
Players must remove the packaging around the conbini onigiri without damaging the seaweed
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That person who brought their own bag to the supermarket but it wasn’t enough twitter.com/dosanko_madam/…
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Getting the voice actresses of Doraemon and Goku together was perhaps the greatest moment in Japanese television
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Japanese prefectural government worker’s high-tech solution to social distancing. Omg I can’t even...
sankei.com/smp/photo/stor…
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Kobe’s RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research utilized a supercomputer to analyze how cough germs can spread inside an office, even with partitions.
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Wow - fashion magazine publisher Takarajima-sha took out full page ads in today’s Asahi, Yomiuri and Nikkei newspapers.
“No vaccine. No medicine
Do you expect us to fight with bamboo spears.
At this rate, politics will kill us”
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Kinki University (@kinkidaigakuPR) has developed a free printable template to decorate your face mask to look like a tuna.
kindai.ac.jp/kindaipicks/pd…
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Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer has simulated the germ spread that occurs when two people without masks are chatting as they walk
twitter.com/nhk_news/statu…
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If you live in Tokyo and get Covid, the government sends you this: twitter.com/frenchbeanstar…
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A huge shooting star lit up the skies last night over western Japan
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Guy who leans in as his Mario Kart character turns a curve: twitter.com/NendooMAN/stat…
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Given all the bear attacks that have been happening in Japan, I suppose it was only a matter of time before authorities staged a drill
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The Kusama-bot is wild
instagram.com/reel/CnM9wbkoy…
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Modern-day chindogu maker Marina Fujiwara created a tool that lets you escape from Zoom meetings or online happy hours
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Yoshida is known for her creative use of analog hacks that replace digital effects. You can see more of her work here:
spoon-tamago.com/tag/yuni-yoshi…
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It's 地味 (mundane) Halloween time again!
spoon-tamago.com/2020/10/31/jap…
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Nice initiative from Japan to reduce plastic waste: edible food trays made from potato starch and produced by a company that makes ice cream cones
スプタマ編集長。Founder and Editor of @SpoonTamago and @SpoonTamagoShop. Raised in Tokyo, based in Brooklyn.