Toyco (トイコー), a toy maker in Sumida, Tokyo, makes sound trains and buses that play Japanese station announcements, departure melodies, Shinkansen chimes and the bus stop button's "tsugi tomarimasu....

Nagaoka's MP ladder runs from the entry MP-100 to the top-model MP-700, each sold mounted on a headshell (H), bare, and as a JN-P replacement stylus, plus a dedicated mono pair. By Nagaoka's own fi...

Western studios wound down 3D Blu-ray; Japanese editions kept the 3D disc. A complete list of the 126 Japanese 3D-inclusive titles in stock, with the region and hardware facts that decide whether y...

The KEIBA Micro Nipper MN-A05 is a 125 mm electronics-bench cutter made in Sanjo, Niigata, by Maruto Hasegawa, a pliers maker founded in 1924 in a town that has forged since the 1600s. The maker it...

Japan eats its pork cutlet under a cold mound of raw shredded cabbage, a habit that spread with the tonkatsu boom of late Meiji and Taisho. The NONOJI Cabbapy MAX is the two-blade shredder built to...

Japan is the country where washing replaced wiping, and the TOTO Travel Handy Washlet YEW350 is what an 82%-bidet-seat country carries to the hotels and flights that have none: a 180 mL tank, one A...