Showing posts with the label Japan

Nightingale Floor: An Ancient Japanese Intruder Detection System

Apr 27, 2018

Squeaky floors are annoying, which is why when you search for “squeaky floors” in Google, you get hundreds of articles offering you tips and...

Osaka Stadium’s Housing Expo

Mar 17, 2018

Where the magnificent Namba Parks stand today at Naniwa-ku, in Osaka, Japan, once stood Osaka’s baseball stadium. Opened in 1950 with a cap...

Ise Jingu: The Japanese Shrine That’s Torn Down And Rebuilt Every 20 Years

Nov 3, 2017

The Ise Grand Shrine, also known as Ise Jingu, located in the city of Ise, in Japan, is one of Shinto's holiest and most important sites...

Japanese Milk Delivery Boxes

Oct 25, 2017

For many western countries, doorstep milk delivery is a thing of the past, but in Japan, millions of people still rely on the milkman for fr...

Hill of the Buddha

Aug 30, 2017

The Hill of the Buddha is a giant Buddha statue located atop a small hill near a cemetery in the Japanese island Hokkaido. The statue was bu...

The Art of Deliberate Imperfection

Aug 28, 2017

Some people are perfectionists, going great lengths and through punishing routines to achieve the perfect figure, the perfect score, the ini...

Heikegani: The Crab With A Human Face

Jun 26, 2017

In a small seaside park near the Kanmonkyo Bridge, in the Japanese city of Shimonoseki, stands two bronze statues depicting two Samurai warr...

Underwater Mailboxes Around The World

Apr 25, 2017

Remember the last time you were diving underwater and you suddenly remembered an important letter you had to post that very instant? Yup, it...

The World’s Quietest Train Stations

Apr 5, 2017

Some of the world’s busiest train stations are located in Japan. Indeed, as per statistics that surfaced in 2013, out of the top 51 train st...

The Japanese Hotel Staffed By Robots

Apr 5, 2017

In the last few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about how robots have been replacing human workers across industries in developed countrie...