Share Okay, the title is horrible, but here’s a little off-beat post from the GS4U team. We recently got an order for the Mega Cockroach on GeekStuff4U, and we also decided to get a sample to play with!

GeekStuff4U welcomes you to a brand new holiday season, a full eleven months after the last one! May the season bring you joy, glad tidings, your most secret wish, chocolate-chip cookies, and – of course – Japanese gadgets and gizmos and goods!

Share As you may (or may not) know, dear readers, GeekStuff4U deals almost exclusively in products that are intended – and manufactured – for the Japanese market. We position ourselves as a bridge between the Japanese consumer market and those fans of Japan overseas that otherwise can’t get their hands on the kawaii, hilarious, cool, [...]

Running an Internet social interaction department makes you privvy to a lot of buzz on the Internet. We reacted to one of them.

We met a Japanese company that crafts high-quality smartphone cases out of wood.

Spring is coming! In unrelated news, we got a tester sample of Thanko’s Mame Cam DX HD this week, and took it out for a spin.

Share Last January, the GeekStuff team decided to get the ball rolling on an eventual complete reboot of the website and services of GeekStuff4U. As part of that effort, two employees started a specialized community communications department – feature posts here on the blog, research into the social and community aspects of the Japan-fan demographic [...]

Share When we had a soft but long earthquake last Wednesday, we joked about it on Facebook – “I don’t know the rest of the team’s whereabouts” – but this time it’s something a little less to laugh about. Most of us were working at our desks at 2:46 (and I was eating my lunch [...]

Today, March 8, is the 76th death anniversary of the famous Japanese dog, Hachiko.

Share The GeekStuff4U office got this year’s Yellow Pages in our mailbox last week – the mailbox was about to fall off its wall mount from the weight.  The book is a millimeter shy of 3cm (1.18in) thick, and has 448 pages from cover to cover, including all the advertisements that make the tomes free [...]

Share Starting on Wednesday, February 9th and ending halfway through the three-day weekend is CP+,a convention for camera and photography nerds at Pacifico Yokohama in Minatomirai – the same venue as the Electronic Design Faire, incidentally.  We got to sneak in with press credentials during the exclusive media-and-invited-guests block in the morning of the first [...]

Share The 71st Tokyo International Gift Show happened this week at Tokyo Big Sight in Ariake, Tokyo.  200K buyers and other visitors from all over the world came to see over 2400 companies filling all ten convention halls at the expo center.  We went to the event to see all the amazing gifts that gift [...]

Share The GeekStuff staff are closet geeks and nerds, but we’re also all – albeit very secretly – very romantic at heart.  So when we realized that Valentine’s Day is coming up, we decided to put some of our hopelessly cute heart-shaped products on sale at a 20% discount for your enjoyment! Head on over [...]

Share Get off the station at Sakuragicho on the Keihin Tohoku line in northeastern Yokohama, and one of the first things you notice is a mass of vertical orange masts nestled cozily in the famous landmarks that make up the cityscape of Minatomirai.  The Nippon-Maru, a 2,278-tonne 4-masted training vessel nicknamed The Pacific Swan, traveled [...]