The chef of the soba restaurant of Okinawa cooked dessert of Ingress

Japanese players of Ingress seem to do interesting play a bit than players of other countries.

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This chef of soba restaurant is the one of them, too. The Chef owner of Komehati soba(米八そば) of a Soba restaurant in Okinawa has become crazy about Ingress. Therefore he cooked the dessert which reproduced portal of Ingress. the name is "Ingress Zenzai(Ingressぜんざい)".

Zenzai is a traditional Japanese dessert. It is a sweet porridge of Azuki beans boiled and served in a bowl with shiratama-dango(白玉団子: Japanese dumpling).

He said, "shiratama may look like a power cube".

He rode shaved ice on Zenzai and expressed portal. Originally this type of Zenzai was popular dessert of Okinawa as ice Zenzai(氷ぜんざい). Okinawa is a prefecture of the everlasting summer by the only tropical climate in Japan. So the people like cold desserts. He expressed Resistance and Enlightened by color syrup. This is 300 yen each, but is not included on the official menu. However, you can order it for the staff.



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The Japanese personifies everything, even cars

Battleships, Japanese swords, castles, Sushi, heavy equipments... every thing are personified in Japan.

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Yesterday, Japanese car information site Autoc-one announced that they released the game apps for smartphones "Syanago collection(車なごコレクション)" in this autumn.

Syanago collection is a race game of the Sugoroku(双六: Traditional Japanese board game played with dice. Wikipedia) which personified existing cars. "Syanago" is the coined word that combined "Sya" with "Onago". "Sya" is the Chinese‐style reading(On-yomi: 音読み) of "車" of the kanji to mean a car. (Most of kanji have two different readings of On-yomi and Kun-yomi, which are reflected of sound and meaning. On-yomi is originally from Chinese pronunciation, and Kun-yomi is the translation into Japanese native word). Onago is a Japanese archaic word meaning  women. Players collect the attractive Syanago which personified actual cars, and compete with other players in the race of the sugoroku type.

Interestingly, many Japanese car companies cooperate with this game officially. HONDA, NISSAN, Mazda and MITSUBISHI supervise designs of Syanago.

Of course a lot of other Syanago comes up in this game. I think if overseas car companies participate in this, it will become more fun.

The curious Japanese already got "Apple" Watch

Apple Watch becomes the topic all over the world. Natural Japan is no exception. Surprisingly, a certain Japanese guy already got it!

Unfortunately this Watch does not convey time exactly, but has overwhelming advantage. Well...WE CAN EAT THIS!

"The hand on the watch which does not work at all and the fresh fruit juice which drips. The device which spoils a sleeve of your brand-new shirt..."

By nice workmanship and a cool visual and explanation, this Tweet became popular in Japan. Now, this is retweeted more than 40,000 times. Let's praise his humor and fast work!

早速Apple Watchを入手してしまいました！ウェブサイトのビジュアルや説明文も凝っていて素敵です！すっごく気に入ってしまい、すぐに完食してしまいました！ pic.twitter.com/EVXqDbwARL
— しのもりつかさ (@sinomoritsukasa) September 10, 2014

Let's touch girl's tits in the virtual world!---When Japanese hentai has technology...

Oculus Rift is very popular among Japanese Tech geeks. They are not satisfied only by trying a demo and make use of the idea only by the Japanese and develop original application.
One day, Japanese developer Ryuto worried, "Even if we go to the virtual world using Oculus Rift, we cannot do naughty things with a sense of reality". Therefore he combined various gadgets with Oculus Rift and developed such a system.

He combined LeapMotion, pressure sensor, Arduino, camera, speaker and real size tits mouse pad(Well' it's the real product which is sold in Japan) with Oculus Rift.

The reaction of the virtual girl is fast. She screams as soon as touched her tits. Do you want to touch virtual girl's tits? There is a good news! This is exhibited by Ocu-Fes(Oculus Rift festival) held in Nagoya-shi, Aichi on September 14. You can watch the unique works of Japanese Oculus Rift developers.

LINE sticker finding new talent. Even 7-year-old kids

Japanese tech media ITmedia shows a cool episode.

LINE Creators Market is the market place that users of message application LINE can sell with own illustrations as a LINE sticker. Many housewives, students and office workers draw LINE stickers as a hobby and a side business in Japan. Most of them do not receive education about the art.

Hanaka of a 7 years old girl living in Tokyo is one in them. She draws illustrations of the cuttlefish, and it was used by celebrities and became the unexpected topic.

It will be difficult to devise the design of one set/40 kinds of LINE sticker even in adults. However, Hanaka says "it was easy". Hanaka draws illustrations well in home and a school and they are popular among her classmates and neighboring adults. Her father thinks that the illustrations of his daughter are interesting and he wanted to send them to relatives with a messenger. However, LINE Creators Market opened in this February. He knows it and thought to make illustrations of his daughter LINE sticker. He says "I only wanted to show off my daughter's illustrations. It's doting parents".

Hanaka's cuttlefish sticker was sold in LINE Creators Market on April 17. Her relatives and friends purchased it at first, but popular model Yura talked in Twitter about using Hanaka's stickers in the beginning of June. In August, popular pop singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu used these. too.

良すぎてプロデューサー本人にLINEしてしまった、、、 pic.twitter.com/cdMVw8EWkK
— きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ (@pamyurin) August 17, 2014

Furthermore, the uncle of Hanaka Taisuke Fukuno(He is CEO of Japanese tech startup jig.jp) wrote an article about her sticker on his blog, and the reaction spread more.

As a result of these, she earns 10,000 yen(about 9.5USD), and bought a cool bicycle. She is full of creative enthusiasm, and she makes the octopus sticker now.

via http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1409/05/news057.html