2012/08/20
The best seller author and the BBC visited Tomoe Soroban
Mr. Alex Bellos published his book, titled "Alex's Adventures in Numberland," in 2010. Since them, this book has been one of the Sunday Times Bestsellers in U.K.
Japanese soroban is introduced as a very sophisticated educational tool for sevral pages in this book. Mr. Alex Bellos came to visit Japan with one of the BBC producers in August, 2012 for the report of soroban study. They also visited Tomoe Soroban and intervewed us in order to deepen soroban knowledge and further information.
