Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You (Live at The Tokyo Dome)

Resurfacing yet again, another great Christmas classic with over 1.5M views...

“All I Want For Christmas Is You (Live at the Tokyo Dome” is a rare live performance by Mariah Carey from her 1996 live performance concert at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan.

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Making the Thinnest Sheet of Paper in the World

How thin can you go? REAL thin and it all starts with the boiling of the inner barks of the kōzo plants. Fascinating!...

In Japan, one company is taking paper thinner than it’s ever been before. Hidaka Washi Ltd. creates paper as thin as human skin, using methods that date back a thousand years. The paper is then sent to museums and libraries around the world—including the British Museum and the Library of Congress—and is used to restore and protect books and works of art.

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sharpest Cardboard kitchen knife in the world

That's one sharp cardboard knife. The video, uploaded by YouTube channel, kiwami japan, has been viewed over 2M times in less than a week...

sharpest Cardboard kitchen knife in the world

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Aquatic Affection: How a Scuba Diver Found a Good Friend Under the Sea

Scuba diver Hiroyuki Arakawa and Yoriko are the unlikeliest of friends. While they both share a love for the sea, Yoriko's gills and tail make her a little more aquatically inclined. Nearly every day for the past 25 years, Arakawa has been diving into the waters of Hasama Underwater Park in Tateyama, Japan, to visit Yoriko—an Asian sheepshead wrasse. One day, Arakawa found her looking exhausted and carrying an injury. So he did what any friend would do: he took care of Yoriko, feeding her crabs and nursing her back to health. Their decades-long friendship is proof there's no greater bond than the one between man and fish.

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Check out Japan's Ultra-Luxurious Sleeper Train (6 Photos + Video)

Talk about the ultimate travel experience...
This new luxury sleeper train, “Train Suite Shiki-shima” by JR East, made its debut on May 1.

East Japan Railway’s new Shiki-Shima suite will allow passengers a more leisurely journey through some of Japan’s most beautiful landscapes between Tokyo and northern Japan.

Of course, a ticket to ride on these 'penthouses on rails', doesn’t come cheap. 

Prices start at JPY320,000 ($2,810) per person, making it one of the most expensive rail tours in Japan.

The dome cars, located at both ends of the 10-car train have large windows on the sides and ceilings and sofas allowing passengers to relax and enjoy the view as the train travels through mountain and coastal scenery.

Japanese skating rink causes uproar by freezing 5,000 dead fish in ice (2 Videos)

Owners of a skating rink at Space World amusement park in Kitakyushu, Japan, came under fire for what they called an "Ice Aquarium".

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Mile-Long Wooden Xylophone In Forest Plays Bach When You Roll Ball Down It

Wow. And all this for a cell phone commercial. Impressive! 

A Japanese adverting agency, Drill Inc., built a mile-long giant wooden xylophone in the middle of a forest where each wooden key was made up of individual notes so that when a ball was rolled down it, it would play Bach's famous Cantata 147.

The video from 2011 has been viewed over 14M times...

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This man lovingly cuddles his alligator and brushes its teeth

Cool! And check out the pearly whites on that alligator...

Nobumitsu Murabayashi bought a baby alligator at a festival over 30 years ago, and they're still best friends. He takes the gator for walks, brushes its teeth, and even tucks the reptile into bed at night.

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Thinnest Wood Shavings You Have Ever Seen - Japanese (3 Videos)

Whoa that's thin! Real thin. The uploader recommended a second video explaining the importance of wood planer fine tuning so we've added that one also!...

Fast Fact: There's a unique wood planing competition held every year in Japan. (See final video)
The competition test competitors' skills by seeing who can shave off the thinnest piece of wood possible.
It seems pushing the limits of one’s abilities with their tools in Japan is not only entertaining - but quite impressive!

In November 2012 the wood planing competition was held in the port city of Uwajima, on the island of Shikoku, and the thinnest shaving was only 9 microns thick. A micros is one-thousandth of a millimeter…Just to give you an idea of how impressively thin that is, the average human hair is 100 microns across, a cloud water droplet is 10 microns in diameter, and a human blood cell measures 8-9 microns. Even more incredible is the fact that the record for the thinnest shaving currently stands at 3 microns.

Update: Original video no longer exists. Sorry! We hope this one will suffice...

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The Quint: Japanese Farmers Plant Coloured Rice Crops to Create Masterpieces

Farmers in Inakadate Village, Japan have created detailed artworks in rice paddy fields by planting different coloured rice crops. These crops are grown to depict different characters from all over the world.

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