Get More Face Time with Your iPhone – While You Eat

Constantly Connected: The theme song of our current epoch, the Tech Epoch. There’s no running from your devices, from the Internet, from the digital documents. No, not even while you’re eating. …

Sick Japanese Ladies Restroom Prank Sure to Terrify

You are a lady, in a ladies' lavatory. You want to quickly do your business and move on. But no, there’s a BIG problem. Moving toward you without pause is this INCREDIBLY HUGE head, intent on crushi…

Cute Curio Kicks in a Really Weird 2013: The Japanese Talking Fork!

Belated this probably is, but anyway...Happy New Year to all our lovely readers here on WAN! So what’s your resolution? Could it be to have quieter, etiquette-conscious meals? Not this year -- s…

Sock Theft: Japan’s Newest Crime Trend

A series of crimes has been occurring in the streets of Japan lately. The victims are mostly teenage girls, but it’s not just another crime like robbery or sexual harassment. There have been …

115-year-old Japanese Senior Citizen Breaks Age-long Record

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to live through two millennia, three centuries, and an obscene number of decades? For we mortals, hoping to hit the 90-year-old mark at some point, …

Jewelry Store Sells Solid-Gold Christmas Tree

Christmas is just around the corner, and surely, Christmas trees can’t be missing from our homes. In a jewelry store in Tokyo, a Christmas tree made of pure gold has been on display for a wee…

A Computer Rack for Lazy People

This is perfect for people who just want to spend their whole day lying on their beds, and at the same time, surfing their favorite websites. A Japanese manufacturer developed this. I think …

Japan’s Burger King Offers All-You-Can-Eat Burgers and Fries

A few days ago, Burger King Japan offered a promotion for unlimited burger and fries. However, one cannot simply get it in a blink of an eye. To take advantage of the promotion, a customer had …

Capturing Life in Tokyo’s Subways

A lot of people take public transportation to reach their destinations, whether it be to and from the office, school, or a simple breakfast with friends. What happens, though, if transportation ser…

The Super Great Toilet Keeper: Toilet and Goalkeeper in One!

And you thought you'd seen it all?! Two Japanese companies, toilet maker Toto and lottery agent Toto, have teamed up to invent a toilet that is way out of the ordinary. Featuring legendary Japa…

Japanese Company Introduces Fart-Proof Undies

Have you ever been in a situation when you really needed to pass gas, but in the middle of a date or a meeting? Worried that the bad smell would ruin the moment? A Japanese company just may have so…

One-room Hotel Built Out of Public Restroom

World renowned Japanese artist Tatsu Nishino has made another one of his unique ideas a reality. In Nakanoshima Park in Osaka, Nishino built a one-room luxury hotel out of half of a public restroom…

Teens in Japanese Cause Internet Buzz over McDonald’s French Fries

After a McDonald’s in Japan offered a price of US$1.90 for any size of their famous fries, one group of teens decided to take full advantage of it -- placing 60 orders of McDonald’s large fries. …

Japan’s Unit 731, Revisited (Warning: Graphic)

What is Japan’s Unit 731? Led by microbiologist Shiro Ishii, Unit 731 was a biological warfare research and development unit that operated during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. …