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Will virtual plate procession become the new normal for conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Japan?

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 28, 2023
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Digital Sushiro Vision seeks to recreate the fun of old-school kaitenzushi with modern technology.

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• Japan
• (clever • COK • Conveyor belt sushi • food • kaitzenzushi • restaurants • revolving sushi • sushi • Sushiro • technology)

Real-life pilotable anime-style robots now on sale in Japan【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 28, 2023

Pre-orders open for Archax, which follows anime tradition right down to having an awesome start-up sequence.

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• Japan
• (awesome • cool • crazy • mecha • robots • technology • Tsubame Industries • video)

Yokohama finally releases details on futuristic theme park set to open in 2031

• Shannon
  Sep 26, 2023

Yokohama sure knows how to plan big.

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• Japan
• (fun • Japanese culture • Kamiseya Park • technology • theme park • Yokohama)

Japan’s Minister of Digital Affairs catches attention by skipping escalator and using stairs【Photo】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 15, 2023

While other high-ranking politicians waited for the escalator, digital policymaker opted for analog method.

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• Japan
• (COK • escalator • funny • politicians • politics • Taro Kono • technology • weird)

Japanese educators want to allow students to use robot substitutes to attend school

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 7, 2023

Kumamoto City Board of Education thinks robots can help ease kids with anxiety issues back into social interaction.

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• Japan
• (education • robots • schools • society • students • technology • youth)

Giant life-size Alolan Exeggutor Pokémon appears at Pokémon World Championships in Japan【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 15, 2023

Tropical variant, first seen in Pokémon Sun and Moon, stands tall in Yokohama.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • COK • cool • cute • drones • Mark Is • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Sun and Moon • Pokémon World Championships • Pokémon World Championships 2023 • SNO • technology • video • video games • Yokohama)

Human hair from India helps make Japanese buses more efficient

• Master Blaster
  Aug 15, 2023

Better living through hair.

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• India, Japan
• (buses • business • fare collection • hair • strange • technology • transportation)

Giant Pokémon appear in Yokohama sky in awesome drone art show at World Championships【Pics, vids】

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 14, 2023

Pikachu and Poké-pals featured in amazing, adorable aerial display over Yokohama harbor.

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• Japan
• (anime • art • awesome • COK • cool • cute • drones • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon World Championships • Pokémon World Championships 2023 • SNO • technology • video • video games)

Japan’s cat robot waiters meow when you pat them, and we find out why【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Jul 26, 2023

Putting the fun into Japanese family restaurants.

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• Japan
• (Bellabot • Cat robot waiter • cats • COK • cool • cute • food • restaurants • robot waiter • robots • Skylark • SNJO • technology • video)

Japan’s new wearable air conditioner belt is here just in time for the Tokyo heat wave

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 14, 2023

Keeping you cooled down from the hips up.

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• Japan
• (air conditioner • cool • fashion • gadgets • heat • hot • technology • wearable air conditioner)

Otaku tech company creates Digital Figure Box for anime figures with no physical form【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 29, 2023

Gatebox continues to blur the boundary between digital and physical worlds.

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• Japan
• (anime • cool • digital figures • figures • Gatebox • manga • otaku • technology • weird)

Robot-operated soba stand in Tokyo is too busy for its machine chef to keep up with

• Master Blaster
  Jun 27, 2023

A sobering soba experience.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • food • Mr. Sato • Noodles • restaurants • robots • SNJO • soba • stations • technology • Tokyo • Ueno • Ueno Station • unmanned shops • Yo-Kai Express)

AI is being used to write a new chapter in the God of Manga’s Black Jack series

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 14, 2023

Project “may give birth to a new way of creating content,” says Osamu Tezuka’s son.

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• Japan
• (A.I. • AI • anime • artificial intelligence • Black Jack • COK • manga • Osamu Tezuka • technology • Tezuka Productions)

Japan’s “just-born” AI-generated swimsuit/lingerie model’s career/existence is officially over

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 9, 2023

It’s time to say bye-bye to the AI Ai.

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• Japan
• (AI • AI images • Ai Satsuki • beautiful women • Shueisha • technology)

AI-generated swimsuit/lingerie model makes debut in Japan’s Weekly Playboy magazine【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2023

“Even if she doesn’t actually exist, the love for her that sprouts in your heart is real.”

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• Japan
• (AI • AI images • Ai Satsuki • beautiful women • Shueisha • technology)

Japan’s newest vending machine absorbs CO2 from the environment

• Oona McGee
  May 17, 2023

Eco-friendly system turns vending machines into metallic trees. 

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• Japan
• (Asahi • carbon dioxide • carbon neutral • clean environment • cool • drinks • eco • ecological • environment • environmental issues • environmentally friendly • Japanese vending machines • marketing • news • technology • vending machine • vending machines)

Testing the automatic jump rope spinner from Akihabara’s Thanko

• Master Blaster
  May 16, 2023

Coordination and fitness are just a hop, step, and jump away.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • exercise • fitness • funny • gadgets • jump rope • Masanuki Sunakoma • shopping • SNJO • technology • Thanko • weird)

Japan’s new portable handheld microwave shoots to the top of our cooking gadget wish list

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 12, 2023

No cord, and no cold food either.

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• Japan
• (awesome • clever • cooking • cooking gadgets • cool • food • gadgets • microwave • portable • technology)

A visit to Green Lawson, the futuristic Japanese convenience store where you get served by an avatar

• Oona McGee
  Apr 4, 2023

Strangely, this convenience store turns out to be surprisingly inconvenient…

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• Japan
• (avatars • bento • combini • convenience store • cool • ecological • environment • environmentally friendly • food • konbini • Lawson • marketing • Mr. Sato • new • remote work • self-checkout • technology • unstaffed store)

Retro PlayStation bags and accessories take you back to the ’90s without breaking the bank

• Katie Pask
  Mar 18, 2023

Celebrate your love for Sony’s flagship home console with these cute (and cheap!) accessories.

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• Japan
• (39 Mart • accessories • cute • playstation • PS One • Sony • technology • Thank You Mart • video games)

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