Wow so cool! Flying Aqua Jelly. The company "festo" made Air Ray, Air arm etc,. Cool company
This is an article from U.S TIME: "Self-Injury in Japan". I don't know much about "Self-injury", but I read the study of self-injury is so slow in Japan, and also our society is stressful very much and I wonder if it might be related that Japanese tend to hide our real feelings in society. My ex boss's daughter did self-injury sometimes, then his wife had to go to hospital from stress about her daugther. So my ex boss offered demotion and went back home as early as he could before. I realized self-injury was not a rare case in Japan.
This is funny. Namco has released the game program "99 tears" for Nintendo DS. You input your feelings for today and the game picks the most fitting story for you. The game site says tears will clean up your stress, would you cry? Here is the official site and here is the trailer. I am not sure it will be released in foreign countires. (Maybe not.)If you can read Japanese, you may try the game here. I did! and I cried, ha ha ha.
The Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization did commercial research about "Companies' design power". The result was here.
Free answer
No.1 Sony : I like this one Black Diamond.
No.2 Apple : For me, Apple's best is this logo. Very happy mood.
No.3 Toyota : Hmm, I didn't have any good image for Toyota about design, I liked Toyota Celica though.
In multiple-choice questions, MUJI ranked in No.4. I agree MUJI's products have good design. MUJI holds their own design award every year. Last year's result is here. The winner was a bath towel. Towels will be dirty and have damage, so that the towel has "further options". From a bath towel to a bath mat, and then to a floor cloth and dust cloth. Simple, eco, and useful.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Posted by: Air Jordan shoes | Tuesday, November 02, 2010 at 12:58 PM
"99 tears" sure looks interesting. Guess I'll try to get my hands on it either via internet - or, if that fails, later this year when I'll visit Japan again.
Somehow I always loved and inside resonated with the concept of "mono no aware", which even nowadays still is inherent in much of Japans contemporary pop-culture.
The late 'Nihongo Journal' always used to present readers with stories that were intended to move you to tears, (best entries imho were Ekuni Kaoris "Negi o Kizamu" and one story called "Eki - Station in my Heart") and even now I go shikushiku when I listen to some of the stories on NJs audio-drama discs. T_T
ja ne,
-andy
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Posted by: Leo | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 07:12 PM