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Main entrance and buildings at Toyota Auto Body’s Fujimatsu plant.

Monozukuri

Monozukuri means making things and is used across Japanese manufacturing, craftsmanship and management, with meanings that depend on the context.

Rows of dōjin stalls and visitors inside the West Hall at Comic Market 106

Japanese Indie Games

A guide to Japan’s independent and dōjin game cultures, their home-computer roots, distribution networks, tools, festivals, and global circulation.

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Shodo (Calligraphy)

Shodo is Japanese calligraphy: the art and practice of writing characters with brush, ink, and focused movement.

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Soroban

Soroban is the Japanese abacus, a decimal calculating instrument used in commerce and education and still practised for arithmetic and mental calculation.

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Origami

Origami is the art of paper folding, spanning historical Japanese practices, popular models, modern design systems, mathematics, engineering, and education.