At a time when young people of all ages are focused on electronics and apps, the popularity of the kendama — a traditional Japanese toy made out of wood — seems like an anomaly. It hasn't caught on ...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima -- "Kendama" traditional Japanese cup-and-ball toys made by Iwata Co., the only remaining manufacturer ...

Like all good games, Kendama is easy-ish to learn and frustrating as all ever-loving £%&*@£^% to master. What’s a poor entrepreneur to do when a game hasn’t changed for 400 years? Rename it Dendama, ...

The kendama is a Japanese variant on cup-and-ball games. It is enjoyed by both children performing simple tricks and adults completing much more complex ones. The kendama has a long history, but the ...

The traditional cup-and-ball game “kendama” is back, thanks to a new “cool” image mostly nurtured overseas and imported back to Japan. “Definitely, people who had never been associated with kendama, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — If it feels like you’re seeing Kendamas everywhere lately, you’re not imagining it. The classic wooden skill toy, which became wildly popular in the mid-2000s before fading from the ...

A worker produces a "kendama" toy at Yamagata Koubou Co. in Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, on May 1, 2020. (Mainichi/Akane Matono) YAMAGATA -- Before they were sucked into the virtual worlds of ...

Almost every child that has grown up in Japan has seen a kendama, a wooden traditional Japanese toy consisting of a ken (sword) and tama (ball) connected by a length of string. The ken has three cups ...

Many of you may remember the sudden rise in popularity of a particular game-sport resembling a ball on a stick from almost a decade ago. That toy was none other than the skill toy, kendama. Back then, ...

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