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A Japanese company sold Adult Milk – for adults living in a stressful society. The milk cost ¥5000 ($47) per bottle, and was taken from cows once a week at the break of dawn, as they discharge a lot of melatonin, a stress-relieving hormone. It contained 3-4 times more melatonin than regular milk
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In feudal Japan, merchants were at/near the bottom of the social hierarchy because they didn’t produce goods. Artisans were a step above them because they produced non-essential goods and peasants were above artisans because they produced food.
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Earlier this year, Gundam Factory Yokohama began construction on a 60-foot tall robot. This summer, the team revealed that their Gundam is nearly complete, and that the robot can even walk.
If you are unfamiliar, Gundams have appeared in over 50 films and television shows since the 1970s, and the robots are endlessly popular in video games and manga.
The films Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising are even about Gundams that are used in a war against monsters that rise from the sea.
While the global health crisis definitely slowed down production, the team has been able to resume their work.
In a recently released video, you can see that the Gundam is able to pick up its legs and rotate its torso. Once the project is complete, the robot will be able to walk totally on its own.
The team has been filming and sharing videos that track the progress of the project. In one, viewers are taken on a tour of the factory where the Gundam was built.
The factory is home to quite a few projects, including one that is dinosaur-themed.
This particular Gundamn is only 25 tons, which sounds like a lot but isn’t when you consider how heavy a robot like this could have been.
Jun Narita, who is in charge of design at the factory, noted that the team used specific materials to keep the Gundam as lightweight as possible. Otherwise, one hand could have weighed 1,500 pounds on its own.
This is definitely a really exciting development, and it will be fun to see what the team uses the Gundam for. What do you think of the project? Let us know in the comments!
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Nasubi, a contestant on a Japanese game show, was forced to live alone, naked, in a small room and required to enter contests in magazines to provide him with physical objects, such as food and cloths. He never knew he was on TV as the producers had lied to him. The show ran for 15 […]
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When Japanese street gangs refused to accept female members in the 1980s, teenage girls formed their own gangs. These sukeban roamed the streets, eventually rivaling the yakuza in size.
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Products made in Japan were ridiculed and thought to be low quality until 1950 when The New York Times reported the excellence of Nikon cameras during the Korean war with the headline “Japanese camera”.
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The concept of Shuhari, a Japanese philosophy on learning, teaches the student first to follow the rules (Shu), seek to break the rules (Ha), then to become the rules (Ri) as they have achieved mastery and the rules are no longer necessary.
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Elementary school children in Japan came together online by creating a virtual graduation ceremony in a Minecraft-rendered graduation hall with students attending as Minecraft avatars.
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The “Herbivore Men” of Japan are the men who have basically given up on marriage and love. They often can’t afford it, and they don’t want to work to death to raise a family, instead they have hobbies or anime or the internet to fill up their time.
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In Japan, 40% of golfers have hole-in-one insurance. Celebrations of the feat have become so expensive, millions of golfers pay $65/year for $3500 of coverage to reimburse any costs incurred (champagne, food, tree-planting ceremonies, etc.) while celebrating the “lucky” shot.
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