Category — Japan

Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo has prepared for any houdini rhinos with their drill training for capturing them, using these two guys dressed up in a rhino suit!

The dramatic music adds to the “tension” as multiply attempts to prod the beast into submission fail, leading to the only possible solution - tranquilizer darts!

Via Gizmodo

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I thought scorpion snacks in Beijing were extreme enough, but here are sushi made with dead insects!

A couple in Japan that eat insects, make these sushi rolls. The rice looks like it lays down a final resting place for these insects (apart from your stomach, if you like).

On TonyMcnicol.com via TokyoMango

Technorati Tags: cuisine, insect sushi, Japan, sushi

Keiko Suzuki is a pretty woman with a strange obsession: she likes to carve faces into her ice cream…

Her blog, called IceFace, chronicles her obsessions and encourages people to post their own where people can post pictures of their own icefaces!

Her number one rule of thumb? “Always eat the faces you create!”

Via Tokyo Mango

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This is the crazy Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan! It’s a life-size rendition of a banyan tree and is twenty foot tall with a pan-Asian restaurant nestled amid its branches.

Accessible by a spiral staircase around back and an in-trunk elevator, the restaurant specialises in locally grown and organic harvested foods fresh from the farm.

Via Inhabitat

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This is a Japanese newspaper (shinbun) that has been expertly folded and glued by hand in Towa Village by farmer’s wives.

Ecologically sound, it looks like a great idea to recycle your own mags and papers into reusable totes. Choose the right prints and you’ll get a looker.

From Pop Wuping

Technorati Tags: ideas, Japanese, Japanese newspaper, newspaper tote bag, tote bag, shinbun

Having featured a multitude of Hello Kitty stuff and lots of bento box variations, here something with a combination of both. Just in time for Halloween today - Hello Kitty Zombie Bento…

Via HelloKittyHell

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New York writer Melanie Berliet gives being a naked sushi model a try and writes about her experience. The practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a naked person is called Nyotaimori.

Nyotaimori is a well-accepted and practiced tradition in Japan. It is recognised as an art form and has been part of the Geisha culture dating back hundreds of years.

Read more about Melanie’s experience here

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We’ve featured origami on feature films before (Iron Man and WALL-E, Lord of the Rings and Pan’s Labyrinth) , but not space battles like this!

Here are some fantastic dollar bill origami depicting mini space battles between tie fighters and x-wings, with the Millennium Falcon making an appearance!

And if these get you up for Star Wars origami, check out how to make a (simpler) X-Wing fighter here.

Via Gizmodo

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