Japan has a proud history of science and inventions that can seem crazy to the outside observer. Most of it is just – crazy – but, as you will see at the end of this list, some of the products below ...

In other words, smooth as fuck. Honestly, I could keep on going all day. The number of insane, ingenious, and downright astonishing inventions was almost too much for me to handle. If you’d like to ...

An invention to keep from splattering your clothes and hair with broth as you slurp your noodles. Also worthwhile if you want your friends to think you are a flower. Chindogu are Japanese inventions ...

ON December 23, 1934, the Japan Times and Mail published a special “Invention Number“in connexion with the commemoration of the jubilee of the Japanese patent law. The number contains much interesting ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured-and transformed-the world's ...

Located in the industrial city of Chiba, just outside of Tokyo, CEATEC is the biggest electronics show in Japan. Each year, the nation which gave the world the bullet train, the Walkman and blue LED ...

Asahi Kasei Receives Imperial Invention Prize in Japan for Nickel-Coated Absorption Layer - Mitigating the Deterioration of Electrodes and Contributing to a Stable, Long-Term Electrolyzer Operation ...

Kazuya Shibata, 27, is a Japanese engineer who makes what he calls "barely useful" inventions. His comical designs are often overly complex, but they've let him quit his job to do inventing full-time.

Yuki Tsukada of Shiga International Patent Office says the rulings will ease enforcement of patent rights on network-related inventions and suggests legislative reform may be on the horizon ...

The new photographic experience achieved through the fusion of analog and digital has received high praise.Tokyo, Japan, ...