# Japanese dopers in Tokyo - a cool thing you can see this weekend.

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**Created:** [November 21, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-dopers-in-tokyo-a-cool-thing-you-can-see-this-weekend/473802 "2008-11-21T09:44:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-dopers-in-tokyo-a-cool-thing-you-can-see-this-weekend/473802/1 "2008-11-21T09:44:15Z")

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I happened across this during my daily scouring of various Japanese news sites:

[http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo\_mango/2008/11/maywa-denkis-no.html](http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2008/11/maywa-denkis-no.html)

Basically, it’s a “nonsense toy” workshop. I don’t know much about it, so I will let the links speak for themselves.

Oh, and here is the guy’s main webpage. From a cursory link, it looks very cool:

[http://www.maywadenki.com/english/00main\_e\_content.html](http://www.maywadenki.com/english/00main_e_content.html)

If you have some free time this weekend, it looked like something fun to check out. I know I would if I was there.