Categories
Traditional

Showering samurai style

In the following video, an actor (who ironically turns out to be Kusanagi) showers/takes a bath in some kind of goemon-buro, the same way as it was supposedly done two hundred years ago. He cleans his teeth with his finger using salt.


Vídeo by Japanprobe

Categories
Various

Giant Rubber Duck

I was browsing through the flickr account of Tetsuya Blues and I came across this video. It seems that for some weeks now people in Osaka have been able to see a giant rubber duck roaming around the city. The duck is not a Japanese creation but an idea by a Dutch artist called Florentijn Hofman and the duck has already visited some other countries and cities before..


Video by TetsuyaBlues

Patito
The Dutch duck in Osaka waters.

Categories
Technology

Electric motorbike prototype

The electric motorbike prototype in the video is able to reach 150 km/h, while the battery charging time is only 6 hours and has autonomy of 200 km. It will cost around 3.000 euros and will be released to the Japanese market next year.


The motorbike design reminds me of the motorbikes in the movie Akira.