Extraordinary Ordinary Guy In Japan

A Little about a Dog

I really appreciate your kind messages, suggestions, and recommending my blog. Also, I'm sorry but I don't have enough time to reply to each of your comments.

There's still nothing new to write about. But let me show you some pictures of a dog in my neighborhood. He or she seems to not be able to keep its teeth inside its mouth. (Note that the dog was not threatening me. This is its usual face.) I like that dogs or cats with funny faces may not realize it themselves (perhaps), and it makes me laugh. Excuse me, dog.

BTW, Don't you think that Japanese dogs look like Japanese people?

Silly but Elaborate

It's still busy... Sadly, my only pleasure is looking around some websites in a short break.
NIPPON STYLE is the project which commercializes ideas collected from the people. Although all of its products are quite silly, they have taken lots of time and energy to create.
(The following linked pages are written in Japanese. I hope you enjoy the images in them)

World's Smallest Die
The length of one side of this die made from brass is only 0.3mm (300micron). This is an example of wasteful using high-precision processing technology of Japan. This image shows that its size is about the same as a space of two fingerprint lines.
99,750yen (969USD)

This company also made "The Fastest Die in the World". It was named like this because of having been made from the same elaborate technology as an engine of Formula-One. The central point and the center of gravity of this cube are almost the same with 99.99999999% of accuracy.
49,875yen (484USD)

Wooden Keyboard
Each key and the cover of this keyboard are made from wood. It was made manually, and is more expensive than my PC itself. We have to take care not to bring coffee close to it.
262,500yen (2,550USD)

Condom Glass
This glass is originally a mold for manufacturing a condom. Once you fill this glass with a drink, you cannot put the glass on a table until you drink up (see the bottom shape of the glass). This page says that the smaller one is the Japanese specification and larger one is the European specification (especially French). What's the hell!
European Spec: 14,100yen (137USD) / Japanese Spec: 12,600yes (123USD)

Wrist Watch for Safe Sex
You can hide your condom into this wrist watch for an unexpected chance of sex. This animation shows how it works. This wrist watch will start to be made actually if the total orders come up to 120, but there are still only 8 orders. I think it's because of its bad design.
16,800yen (163USD)

Unfortunately, they are all too expensive for me (perhaps for many other people, too). If these were more cheap and sold on TV shopping channels, many people would buy them.

New Years Day Morning

I must say long time no see. And I apologize if you have been waiting for my new post such a long time.
I have once mentioned that I was suspecting the Japanese people were not-so hard workers. But I'm sure that there is a really hard worker here. In this two months, I've been working every day, every hours except when I'm sleeping. Even when people took their new year's holidays. I'm eating my lunch in front of the PC now.

But, I did not miss the chance of once a year. Each New Years Day morning, I wake through the night and go to walk around the center of Tokyo-city in the early morning. Because this sleepless city's main streets become almost empty only this time.
It had been said that people disappear from Tokyo in the New Year since many of them had visited their parents' home at the same time. And it had caused terrible traffic jams every years. So in these years, many people came to prefer to spend the holidays in their Tokyo home rather than wasting time on crowded highways.

Then I had to start my exploration of the streets with a width of 50m and no cars before they woke up. See the pictures of the empty towns I took. Half a month had passed from the New Years Day and this is already an off topic though. Oops, I have to back to work.