June 7th, 2010 by Nathan | No Comments
As a part-time aficionado of eccentricities of Japanese people (including, but not limited to, the family I married into), I am a fan of Japantrends.com. They cover a wide range of wierdness, from ads against crotchrot to personalized baby handprint stamps. My favorite find of their are user-supplied videos of nakipita, the art of making baby [...]
March 24th, 2010 by Matt | 3 Comments
As we all know, Japan is always on the cutting edge of everything. And with a perennially ailing economy and a declining birthrate, the Japanese have an awesome new tool to get their citizens procreating: a robot baby with vaguely human facial expressions! The video: On the one hand, you’ve got to admire the Japanese [...]
January 22nd, 2010 by Nathan | 6 Comments
If I’m crunching the numbers right, DadWagon kids are 30% Asian. Two are Hapa, two are one-quarter, and one poor DadWagon kid is absolutely not Asian at all, unless you expand Asia Minor to include Greece, which, as Xerxes learned, can be very difficult to do. So who cares? Well, mine are the only Japanese kids, [...]
