The Nagoya-based CBC TV has a niece piece on Japan Nationals, held in the city last week.
There’s some of the usual “the yo-yo is not what it used to be”, but there are some quite interesting bits on Tatsuya Fujisaka and Izuru Hasumi’s lives outside of yo-yoing.
A rare glimpse into the production and development of YoYoRecreation products is also provided, with a brief visit to the machine shop, and a close look at YoYoRecreation’s titanium yo-yo prototype, complete with Tatsuya Fujisaka testing a freshly-turned piece wearing his everyday suit.
And as a bonus, courtesy of YouTube’s translated subtitles, here’s your bad yoyo translation of the week: