Nevertheless, the abacus is enjoying a resurgence with parents in the Reiwa Era that started in 2019. At the Takashima Soroban School in the Akabane district of Tokyo’s Kita Ward, students ...

We chose to build two abaci from different cultures in order to compare them: the Russian (Schoty) abacus and the Japanese (Soroban) abacus. The Russian abacus was made specifically for counting ...