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 ...

Japan is one of the most high tech nations in the world, yet even so a million Japanese children a year learn to calculate using a mechanical, pocket-sized contraption that has been around for ...

The abacus, for centuries an essential computation tool, has today largely been replaced by electronics. In Japan, though, it remains in use as a way to teach children basic arithmetic and to keep ...

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 ...

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.

TOKYO -- An app developed in Japan for people to learn the abacus-method of math calculation skills is gaining global popularity, with more than 8,000 students at home and abroad using the app to ...

KYOTO >> The caller read out the numbers at a speed evoking an auctioneer on fast-­forward, each multidigit figure blurring into the next. Within seconds, Daiki Kamino’s right arm shot up in the air, ...

A Sydney-based Japanese mum worked over her plan of opening a school during her pregnancy. When her child turned one, Akiko decided to make a move. A Sydney-based Japanese abacus teacher Akiko (left) ...

When I first heard my daughter was going to take abacus lessons after school, I didn’t really know what to make of it. I never touched one myself and just considered it one of those obsolete tools of ...

Schools in Japan are bringing the abacus back to class, it's reported. Some teachers have been reintroducing a version of the traditional counting tool - the soroban - to help young people think ...

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 Japanese abacus or soroban has ...