What Surprises Non-Japanese While Living in Japan? (1)
Heated bidet toilets and convenient store rice balls top the list of Japanese things foreign residents love about this country. “The toilets freaked me out at first. But now I’ve looked into bringing those seats home with me. It’s too bad though American bathrooms don’t have electric outlets in the right places,” says Jeremy, an […]
Japanese Factory Robot with AI technology (video 2)
It selects and picks up only the triangle-shaped objects that are placed randomly and rearranges them neatly. Like a lunch box, it is used to arrange food on a tray.
Japanese Factory Robot with AI technology (video 1)
Robots are appearing in human workplaces. There are concerns that combined AI and robotics services will take over human jobs, but the race to develop robots and AI continues amid the coronavirus pandemic. What can Japanese robots do?
Play or Work: New SOHO building in Tokyo Bay area
It is not a posh hotel or sample rooms of an expensive condo. It is a newly built SOHO (Small Office, Home Office) building in the bay area of Tokyo. Some people feel that play and work should never be mixed. But here, the boundaries between play and work seem non-existent. Sure enough, various parties […]
Old Game Machines Are Back in Business in Japan
These machines once stood in front of friendly candy shops, familiarly called “dagashiya” in Japanese, found near schools in every neighborhood in Japan. Thirty years later, they have been replaced entirely by smart phone games, Nintendo or PlayStation, etc. But this museum of old game machines pulls in a steady stream of locals, young and […]