I found a little puff piece of video produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about tradtional Japanese toy tops, so I put it online. In a world with short attention spans, Tamagotchis and Transformers, I hope there is still a place for the kind of toys I played with when I was a little kid.
The video is 3 minutes, 25 seconds, in English, and requires QuickTime 6. Stick with this through the slightly annoying first half to get to the demonstrations of the toys. Or just click forward in the timeline and watch the instant-on streaming magic of QuickTime, with no downloading delay.
