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Japanese can maker says it’s OK to microwave cans with their new invention
- Master Blaster
Jul 14, 2025 - Tweet
Can the Range de Can do what it says it can?
- Japan
- (cans • Daiwa Can • inventions • metal • microwaves • Range de Can • safety • sparks • technology)
Trying out the revolutionary adhesive bandages developed by a 10-year-old Japanese girl
- Master Blaster
Feb 22, 2024
If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway.
- Japan
- (adhesive bandages • band-aids • Easy-Wrap Finger Plaster • finger plaster • inventions • Kotone Ugamochi • Matsukiyo • Matsumoto Kiyoshi • technology)
Are you brave enough to wear Thanko’s new Folding Umbrella Sometimes Poncho?
- Oona McGee
Jun 16, 2021
When staying dry is more important than the way you look.
- Japan
- (backpacks • clever • COK • funny • gadgets • inventions • rain • rainy season • SNJO • Thanko • umbrella • umbrellas • weird)
An umbrella to keep your backpack dry is just the thing we need this rainy season
- Katie Pask
Jun 4, 2021
No more wet backs and soggy backpacks with this umbrella!
- Japan
- (backpacks • clever • funny • gadgets • inventions • rain • rainy season • Thanko • umbrella • umbrellas • weird)
SoraNews24 founder develops effective yet inexpensive COVID-19 guards for restaurants
- Master Blaster
Sep 3, 2020
It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, and I’m not just saying that because he signs my cheques.
- Japan
- (100 yen shop • AS Field • coronavirus • COVID-19 • inventions • public health • restaurants • safety • umbrella • Yoshio)
“The revolutionary way to pick your nose!” We try out the Nose Picker
- Katie Pask
Jun 9, 2020
It’s “what you have always wanted and needed.”
- Japan
- (crazy • funny toy • inventions • Japanese inventions • nose • nose picker • technology • toy • toys • wtf)
Japanese genius invents a machine just to help you get out of unwanted video chats【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 2, 2020
Loading Circle Machine for Escape from Zoom is a communications solution for our weird new normal.
- Japan
- (cool • crazy • funny • inventions • telecommuting • video • video conferences • weird • working from home)
Why do Japanese stairs have red-and-yellow marks on them?
- Oona McGee
Jan 13, 2020
Even people in Japan are surprised to learn what they’re for.
- Japan
- (architecture • clever • design • eyesight • inventions • Japanese train stations • society • stairs • train stations • trains)
Why do Japanese toilets have double hooks on their doors?
- Oona McGee
Oct 24, 2019
Contrary to popular belief, this design wasn’t made for coats, hats, or doorstoppers.
- Japan
- (clever • inventions • Japanese toilets • public toilets • society • Toilets)
Japanese performance artist develops kit to let you experience a summer music festival anywhere
- Master Blaster
Aug 2, 2019
“Fuji Rock Anywhere” can be made with ordinary household products.
- Japan
- (art • Bokunou • crazy • Dokodemo Fuji Rock • Fuji Rock • Fuji Rock Anywhere • funny • inventions • music • music festival • video • weird)
The one-person kabe-don machine: A terrifying way to experience anime’s steamiest move【Video】
- Casey Baseel
Jul 30, 2019
Could anything be hotter, or scarier, than this wall-pound apparatus?
- Japan
- (crazy • funny • inventions • kabe-don • manga • scary • video • wall pound • weird)
We test out a product that promises it will make cars obsolete: these goofy looking boots
- Master Blaster
Oct 14, 2018
Dr. NakaMats, you’ve done it again!
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • Dr. NakaMats • Dr. Nakamatsu • exercise • funny • inventions • Jumping Jax • Seiji Nakazawa • shoes • SNOJ • Super Pyon Pyon • weird)
Twitter user’s ridiculous tissue launching invention will revolutionise getting a cold【Video】
- Richard Simmonds
Nov 22, 2017
Japanese Twitter user’s crazily extreme device is perfect for when you need multiple tissues, stat.
- Japan
- (crazy • funny • inventions • technology • tissues • video • weird)
Crazy cool product ideas designed by Japanese Twitter that we wish were real
- Scott Wilson
Apr 9, 2017
Necessity is the mother of inventions… and we need these!
- Japan
- (cool • funny • inventions • product design • twitter)
Japanese inventor creates musical strobe light bra that flashes to beat, adds fills when squeezed
- Casey Baseel
Sep 18, 2016
It’s like a soft, silky dance club.
Crazy Japanese alarm clock features the sound of Mom’s cooking
- Shannon McNaught
Aug 16, 2016
Can’t get out of bed in the morning? Japan has one possible solution.
- Japan
- (alarm clocks • alarms • cooking • innovative tool • inventions • motivated by food)
Nissan unveils the world’s first “Intelligent Parking Chair”【Video】
- Oona McGee
Feb 16, 2016
You’ll never waste time pushing in chairs ever again thanks to this amazing new invention from Japanese car manufacturer Nissan.
- Japan
- (auto • cars • inventions • nissan • parking chair • technology • video)
Real-life Iron Man? Partially paralyzed Indonesian welder claims to have built bionic arm【Video】
- Meg Murphy
Feb 3, 2016
Scientific breakthrough or elaborate hoax? Either way, that’s a cool arm, bruh!
No more fuel! Young entrepreneur creates lantern that runs on ocean water
- Meg Murphy
Nov 25, 2015
Aisa Mijeno, a young Filipino engineer and environmental advocate, has conceptualized a product that is not only environmentally friendly, but will provide basic lighting to the less-privileged: a lamp that runs on salt water!
- SE Asia
- (environment • environmentally friendly • innovation • inventions • Philippines • women entrepreneurs)
Amazing tool fixes ingrown nails, looks like a torture device
- Mike
Oct 21, 2015
The somewhat euphemistically named process of “denailing” has remained a popular torture method since medieval times and, according to the sort of creepily detailed Wikipedia page for the method, it remains in use today.
There are a few good reasons for that. It apparently leaves no permanent marks or injury – after the nail grows back, of course – and requires only the most basic of tools to pull off. It also objectively hurts like hell and there’s something about the tips of the toes and fingers being manipulated that leaves a person feeling unbearably vulnerable.
All of which has us wondering why anyone would voluntarily use this tool, which is clearly just a re-purposed torture device, to fix their ingrown toenails, regardless of how amazingly well it supposedly works.
- Japan
- (beauty • crazy • inventions • technology • video • wtf)
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Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Experimenting with making hot sandwiches in the microwave with a device from Japan’s 3COINS
Matcha ice cream discontinued by one of Japan’s favorite ice cream brands
Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
New Sonic the Hedgehog figure costs 1 million yen, is made of Arita ware Japanese porcelain [Vid]
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Japan announces new permanent residency guidelines, foreigners must earn more than average Japanese person
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- Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
Make-your-own-Totoro plushie workshop event coming to Ghibli Park park this fall
Osaka man arrested for running little pet shop of horrors with dangerous crocodile
Starbucks Japan says sayonara to the Filone for new sandwiches and a Pumpkin Soupuccino
Casio collaborates with a Kyoto foil master for a luxurious one million yen G-SHOCK
Foreign tourist numbers drop in Osaka, despite record-setting highs from U.S. and Korea
Japan’s first-ever conveyor-belt Sushi Bus announces Tokyo tour start date, reservations now open
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- Japan announces new permanent residency guidelines, foreigners must earn more than average Japanese person
- Family Mart releases 47 convenience store socks and stickers, one for every prefecture in Japan
Starbucks Japan unveils new Pokémon collaboration with Pikachu Latte and exclusive goods- Studio Ghibli’s Calcifer is ready to light up your home as a magical-looking candle lamp [Photos]
Lady Gaga and Family Mart team up for a Japanese convenience store work video [Video]
New Gundam Base superstores coming soon in the U.S., with one opening this month
Studio Ghibli releases new plush mascot character collection with a focus on friendship
Studio Ghibli releases new onigiri rice ball-shaped lunch bag for Kiki’s Delivery Service fans
Do Japan’s new single-minded convenience store bento show depressing poverty or satisfying focus?
How to watch Studio Ghibli’s new anime in Japan, with a special after-dark outdoor screening for Halloween
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Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
Starbucks Japan releases new drinkware and goods for Valentine’s Day
Starbucks Japan releases new sakura goods and drinkware for cherry blossom season 2026
Japan’s newest Shinkansen has no seats…or passengers [Video]
Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad
Salomon releases Japan-exclusive Mt. Fuji hiking gear that doubles as an amazing souvenir
Japan reportedly adding Japanese language skill requirement to most common foreigner work visa
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My Neighbor Totoro calendar for next year can be yours right now at Donguri Kyowakoku
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