Kendamas are the anti-video game: ball-and-cup toys that are quickly becoming this generation’s Hacky Sack, a craze spreading across the Inland Northwest and the United States, disrupting school days ...

KOLOA — Matthew Myerson, 13, captured the Best Trick trophy, a new kendama, during the first Kendama Battle 2012, Saturday across from Sueoka’s Store in Koloa. Jaeda Dabin, coordinator of the kendama ...

PLYMOUTH, Minn. — Hundreds of people from around the world are in Minnesota this weekend to compete in North America's largest kendama tournament. Kendama is a traditional Japanese skill toy ...

If you've never seen a kendama before, you might think it's some sort of small wooden doll, or handheld weapon, or tool for assembling Ikea furniture. In fact, it's a Japanese toy made of two parts — ...

Sixteen Orchard Prairie third- and fourth-graders watched with rapt attention as Jacob Schultz spun his kendama through the air, under his leg, twirling the string from his fingers before landing the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

TikTok has found its latest obsession: kendama, a centuries-old Japanese skill toy now fueling leaderboard rivalries and TikTok fandom wars through an app called Kendamanomics. Kendama dates back to ...

The Japanese skill toy known as the Kendama has had a wild ride from its origins in France all the way to becoming intertwined in the Hip-Hop community via No jumper and Adam22. We would see rappers ...