Death Note

"Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower". I read about a man who only loves cars.

Do you know iPong? It's a small ping pong game that you can play on the iTouch. A Japanese small company made it and they uploaded the movie where they were playing it. Then the company CEO got a phone call from APPLE! "That's nice, can you come over here?" The CEO will go to San Francisco. iPong will be a pre-install game :-)
A little bit old one, but I found it again, I love it: "Death Mewto". Ha ha ha ha, cute. By the way, it is true? Death Note will be remade in Hollywood! I wished Hollywood made Death Note first, not Japan. But now I saw an article about Dragon Ball and I began to feel even Hollywood shouldn't touch "manga". What do you think?

Here is very interesting research. This is the ranking of Japanese words that foreign people who live in Japan can understand. Since the question asked people who are living in Japan now, I guess you feel different on the ranking. I agree number 1 is OTAKU. But it is sad to know no2 is Karoshi. Do you know the word KAROSHI?? It's death from too much working. You can find the word "KAROSHI" on wiki. Katorisenko or Zangyo would be nessessary words to live in Japan? Very interesting. How many words do you know?
1.OTAKU
2.KAROSHI
3.MOTTAINAI
4.KATORISENKO
5.ZANGYO
6.KEIRETSU
7.KARAOKE
8.TERIYAKI
9.ANIME
10.SUDOKU

Comments

[mari]

Hi there. Thank you very much for you comments. tabehodai, I will find such type of site soon. I a sorry I didn't know that the site is dead link now. And thank your all warm comments, I will gambarimasu for new job!!

[Kris]

I find it strange that while the number one word is otaku, anime is almost at the bottom of the list.

[Marco Bresciani (マルコ·ブレシャ−二)]

iPongはすごいです。（＾＿＾）

I didn't know the words "mottainai" and "katorisenko" and "zangyo" and "keiretsu". I think there are many other words that foreign people living in Japan should know... such as 茶道 or many other.

新しい仕事おめでとう。がんばってくださいね。

As usual, thank you for your nice blog... I always read it through the RSS feed so I often forget to comment... but thank you! :-D

[chang]

I think Hollywood should leave the manga and other Japanese movie remakes alone. If they remake them, they should put Japanese or Japanese-American actors in it.

[tabehodai]

Hihi...
I've always enjoyed reading your blog. You always have very interesting topics and useful information.

Sometime ago, you recommended a Speech Machine site for those of us who don't know how to pronounce Japanese kanjis. I tried accessing it recently but I couldn't get it to work. Would you know of another site I can use? It's really frustrating not to be able to read the kanjis... if only I can paste the text on some site to make furigana... that'll also work... thanks in advance!

Good luck with your new job with Yahoo!