Leave it up to the Japanese to have a cool looking note book for to bring to class this fall.  If you’re an Ipad fan, you can  consider getting a cool looking 64page Padnote （189.7×242.8mm） notebook that looks deceivingly similar to the Ipad.

Made by GOCCO and it can be purchased from triggerdevice for 735 yen.

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Do these drink cartons look real to you?  They are in fact cute pencil cases made by JaJapanese stationery company, Sun-Star Stationery Co., Ltd.

The padded pencil cases are the same size as a regular milk/juice cartons in Japan with a capacity of 850 ml (but obviously not to store  liquid!).  Each has zipper opening and a hole at the top so you can hang it somewhere.

There are six design choices to choose from – 2 milks, orange juice, apple juice, pear juice and strawberry.

Cost of pencil case is 840 Yen.

What are these guys playing on their iphones?  Could it be Japan Celebrity poker (or Japan Idol poker)  ジャパンアイドルポーカー?  That iphone app  features photos and some video of some of Japan’s top JAV artists including Maria Ozawa 小澤 マリア, Mihiro みひろ, Honoka 穂花, Risa Coda 倖田梨紗 Ai Takeuchi 竹内あい and Tina Yuzuki (Rio) 柚木ティナ.

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Which av idol do you want to playing 5 card draw with?

Non Japanese people usually sign legal contracts or other important documents in ink, but Japanese traditionally prefer an engraved stamp called a hanko. One concern though, is that the stamped signature, usually the owner’s name, can be easily forged. Mitsubishi Pencil’s Security Enhanced Personalized Hanko stamp ダイヤルバンク印 alleviates the risk of fraud by adding a two-digit dial that creates a series of marks around the printed name, making it difficult for an unauthorized person to copy someone’s stamp. It also wards against theft by requiring a code to be entered before use.

Cost of the stamp is 21,000 Yen.

Japanese products are known for their superior quality and craftsmanship.  One IT product that caught our eyes is  a Japanese lacquered computer mouse sold at Ryou art pc.  The mice are hand lacquered by individual craftsmen so each  mouse is unqiue and comes packaged in a beautiful wooden box.

Because each mouse is hand lacquered, the price is high; it’s between 28,000 Yen to 40,000 Yen.

If you like the mouse, you can also get a very nice hand lacquered key board too which costs 46,000 Yen.

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If you want to see sexy Japanese lingerie babes on your iphone, one nice little app is LOVEYONE special issue vol.1 LOVEYONE X Ravijour photo by Yasumasa Yonehara.

YONE a.k.a Yonehara Yasumasa is the only photographer in the world using “Cheki” as the main camera and this is his first collaboration project with Japanese lingerie brand “Ravijour” for iphone (released in October last year)

The app features two of Japan’s hottest babes, Nanao Arai 菜々緒 and Anne Nakamura 中村アン in 186 images and 11 movies.

Nano Arai and Ann Nakamura in LOVEYONE X Ravijour photo by Yasumasa Yonehara.

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Nao Tamura is a Japanese and US based designer who recently won the Salone Satellite Award at Milan Design Week 2010 for Seasons, her functional kitchen and serving ware.  The plates are leave-shaped containers made of silica sand, which means that they can easily be rolled up.

She was inspired by Japanese customary traditions of using leaves as decorative objects in the presentation of food.  In the Spring, cherry tree leaves are used to wrap sweets. In Autumn, fallen foliage is used to decorate the table. Leaves are also used as dividers when presenting an assortment of dishes.

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Japanese engineers have invented something completely useless, yet totally cool. This time it’s a grabbing device for potato chips so you don’t get grease and salt all over your fingers and crumbs dropping into your keyboard

Potechi ポテチの手 ( a Japanese neologism derived from the English “potato chip”) is an ingenious device manufactured by Takara Tomi, that grabs potato chips, so you don’t have to.  This device features technologies like NBCS (No Broken Clutch System), NTTS (No Touch Table System) and FECS (Finger Easy Cleaning System) allows you to gently pick up potato chips without breaking them. Simply press the button and let Potechi do the rest of the job for you.

Takara Tomy displayed and demonstrated the Potechi Hand at the recent TOY Forum 2010. The Potechi comes in your choice of green, orange or brown trim and costs only 699 Yen (about $7.75) each.

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Momotaro Jeans in Kojima, Okayama, Japan have the reputation of being the best denim manufacturers in the world.  They were the first in the world to make denim from 100% best grade Zimbabwe cotton which is well known for its whiteness and soft shiny texture.

The denim manufacturer also dyes yarns with natural indigo by hand. Dying the denim by hand means that is loses its color in a different way from ordinary denim.

Mostly aimed at the local domestic Japanese market, Momotaro Jeans have 4 labels – Copper, Vintage, Going to War and the premium brand Kintan Golde Label where the denim of these jeans is handwoven using very rare denim looms. The handwoven denim is so soft that you will not believe it is a denim.  The buttons of this jeans are sterling silver.

Cost of a pair of Momotaro Kintan gold label jeans are about 300,00 Yen

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Japanese design duo Yuruliku (comprised of Bananao and Kinue Oneda) get their pleasure from designing the smaller things in life. Their prime focus is on stationary and one of  their latest designs is will excite design minded people.  Their new Green Marker grass shaped post-its serve as cute book marks.

The Green Market post its  come in three different sizes and cost 700 yen for 75 posts its.