IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This wooden instrument has an open ...

Under fire for easing standards and creating a generation of educational slackers, some Japanese schools are finding a new use for a tool from the days of the samurai. The abacus is making a comeback.

Two vastly different restaurants—one, Niwa Japanese BBQ, the other Abacus—are teaming up to offer an expensive variety of Japanese wagyu and serve it in their own ways. When I learned of the small ...

Parents in Japan who are having their children start early on learning the abacus hope that it will improve both calculation and concentration. A survey conducted by the abacus education organization ...

1946: The United States Army holds a contest pitting a Japanese abacus user against a soldier using an electric calculator. In four out of five rounds, the abacus wins. The soroban or Japanese abacus ...

HAEBARU TOWN, Okinawa — A 6-year-old Japanese girl stood with her back to Defense Department students gathered Thursday to learn about the Japanese abacus, or soroban, at the Tsukazan Community Center ...

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Abacus, the direct marketing data and research provider, has launched Abacus Japan KK, a subsidiary that will begin operating immediately. The Broomfield, CO company, a division of DoubleClick, will ...

Co-op database compiler Abacus on June 30 launched Abacus KK, a wholly owned subsidiary that has launched operations in Japan. The new unit begins with two of Abacus’s basic services–prospect modeling ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This wooden instrument has an open ...