Impressive

A college student's obsession with a 1998 wearable computer brought a legendary crew of veteran engineers back together to bring it to life.

A finished order: 180cm, about 10kg, 6cm thick — and a comment section that recognised it instantly.

A brown apartment block, an overcast sky, a pedestrian overpass — and not one pixel of it is a photograph.

Hospital footage from the Kumamoto earthquake shows a surgical team spending the first few seconds on everything except themselves.

A former Hello! Project idol ran a 10-hour, fan-powered livestream on a platform she built herself — and says she never read a single line of the code.

A donation to Tokyo National Museum's tea houses comes with air conditioner panels styled after traditional Japanese lacquer inlay.

A traveler's offhand suitcase comparison turns into a small love letter to Hankyu Umeda Station's famously glassy platform floor.

One single person's hospital-bill anxiety spirals into a surprisingly reassuring thread about Japan's welfare safety net.

A Japanese equipment maker's heavy-duty mowing attachment went viral for how weirdly good it looks in action.

As Europe sweats through another brutal heatwave, Japan's AC makers are winning hearts — and premium price tags.

The detail that sent everyone over the edge: you can open the shell.

A massive bioluminescent bloom lights up the nighttime coast of Aichi Prefecture, and the photos look like something out of a fantasy game.

A video of Kiyomasa casually tossing and catching a tomato has the internet in shambles — and he's Shabaani's son.