Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo has an impressive commercial for their Touch Wood SH-08C cell phone. The ad was produced by a Japanese agency Drill, Inc.

Watch it here:

Believe it or not, crows have a reputation for being one of the most intelligent species on the planet. Here’s an interesting video of a crow using a busy road to crack nuts in Akita, Japan:

Believe it or not, these neatly sliced apples and pears are actually notepads! Delicious Kudamemo notepads, designed by Masashi Tentaku and produced by D-Bros, look very much like real fruit, but if you look closer, you’ll see they’re made of 150 sheets of note paper.

Tired of cooling your drink with old school square ice cubes? Here’s something cuter! Japanese manufacturer Monos recently started selling a new product named Polar Ice, which is a set of two silicon molds that make ice cubes in the shape of a polar bear and a pair of penguins.

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has recently released a few photos of cracks on the seabed believed to have been caused by the powerful earthquake on March 11 as well as aftershocks that followed. The images were taken near Japanese coast around the epicenter of the quake at depths of between cca. 3000 and 6000 meters (9800 ft – 19,000 ft).

A crack 3218 meters under water, about 20 cm wide and several tens of meters long.