I was forced to consider the possibility of this being a collection of late entries in an April Fools contest: A pen that doesn't work properly. A notepad you

I was forced to consider the possibility of this being a collection of late entries in an April Fools contest: A pen that doesn't work properly. A notepad you have to make yourself. Grid paper with lines missing. A device making books hard to read. A paper stubby holder. A calendar, but it's difficult to tell the date. Maybe it is satire. It reads like confected pseudo-intellectual slop. Perhaps it merely demonstrates that the Japanese can have terrible ideas just like the rest of us.