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Once again, a team of archaeologists from Japan’s Yamagata University have discovered new Nazca Lines, this time announcing that they’ve spotted 168 previously undocumented geoglyphs on the Pampas de Juman in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru.

Hundreds of mysterious drawings, often monumental in scale, dot the Peruvian landscape, many of them visible only from an aerial view. The newly identified figures on the desert sands depict humans, camelids, birds, killer orca whales, cats, and snakes, and are thought to date to between 100 B.C.E. and 300 C.E.

(via Artnet)

N&B Block was a toy line created by Nintendo in the late 60s. They were designed by Nintendo’s game department, headed by Gunpei Yokoi (you know, that dude who designed the Game Boy, Virtual Boy, and WonderSwan). The N&B Block used a stud-locking system similar to LEGO bricks, although there was a variation to the design as not to copy LEGO’s patented tube-locking system. That didn’t stop LEGO from suing Nintendo, and while Nintendo won, they eventually discontinued the toy in the early 1970s.

More on N&B Block

• Collector Opens Up 50-Year-Old Set Of Nintendo N&B Blocks
• Nintendo N&B Block – Introduction (任天堂 ブロック, 1968-72)
• N&B Block vs LEGO (任天堂 ブロック vs レゴ)
• 1968 Nintendo N&B Block Set
• Nintendo N&B Block Ringer TV Commercial (1970)

In 1868 a group of female samurai took part in the fierce Battle of Aizu for the very soul of Japan.

‘The view from either end of the bridge amplifies the actual incline, hence the rollercoaster nickname. It looks terrifyingly high.’

An archive Tumblr of anime/manga/game-related material scans from the late ’70s to the early ’00s.

Model, actress, singer and designer.

Omakase is another example of blending Japanese architecture with Chinese dining.

From 2008:

When the reporter went to check out the new age-verifying machines after they were introduced in the Osaka area in June, he soon discovered that the machines equipped with face-recognition cameras would let him buy cigarettes when he held up a 15-centimeter (6-in) wide magazine photo of a man who looked to be in his 50s.

The reporter also went to Kobe, where different face recognition hardware is being used. There, he bought cigarettes using an 8-centimeter (3-in) wide magazine photo of a female celebrity in her 30s. He also reportedly tried to use a 3-centimeter (1-in) wide photo, but the machines rejected it.