This is funyy news from Poland, "Panther was a cheater"
Some Japanese made this automatic mario with Queen don't stop me now. Good job.
automatic mario with Queen
Fender guitar colaborates with Evangelion
This is some interesting news. Scientists create artificial meat. It could be a solution to the food supply crisis. But I hope we won't just have only fake meat to eat in the future. I don't trust artifical foods. But I like soy meat. It's not so easy to get it in Japan so I have to a special Taiwanese restaurant to get it.
Yahoo!Japan auction started a special auction, it's a collaboration between Fender guitar and Evangelion. Fender made telecasters with an REI face motif. There are only two guitars in the world with this design. One is $70,000 now and another is $50,000. I am not sure successful bidders will pay so much for a guitar, but I will tell the result when it's over.
Except for some special Japanese menu items, McDonald's sells the same menu in Japan, and also when we order here, we use the English menu names without changing them, like Burger, Chicken McNuggets and McDonald's Fish McDippers etc,. However only one McDonalds uses a translation for menu. Sugamo is called Grandma's Harajuku, so McDonald's in Sugamo has translated each menu item into Japanese for old Japanese people.! Cute!
I laughed a lot when I saw this post "please make this photo cool!" That's funny. I like the soccer one.
new street computing style in Akihabara
There is a new phenomenon in Akihabara... a standing typing style called "Koike Style" (named after Mr. Koike, who was the first to do it). Anyways, why don’t they just use an iPhone?
Tatsuya Ichihashi was finally arrested today. His cosmetic surgery “after” photo was pretty shocking to us, and all Japanese people kept a lookout for him.
This is another Japanese curry fan's post, she wrote down her recipe too. She cooks curry udon, but penne or macaroni or Chinese noodles are good too. If you make the curry sauce a little bit thick (using less water), it would be good with bread too; you can make a hot sandwich. Curry is really good for chilly winter nights, try it.
Lipton Tea started a new sweets
collection. This is the 7th series and this time, they collaborated
with DAMEL. When you
buy a bottle of Lipton tea, you can get one of those dessert keychains. Since
they are exquisitely designed, the Lipton sweets collection is a very popular series and there
are a lot of collectors.
The 1st series was Pierre Herme.
The 2nd was Westin Tokyo teatime.
The 3rd was the sweets collection.
The 4th was Pierre Marcolini.
The 5th was the sweets collection II.
The 6th was Delray.
They can be good free souvenirs :-).
This is a funny site: "create the facial _expression on a real face." The upper right one is "eyes turning round," which means "to marvel at something" in Japanese. Eyes turn into dots has almost the same meaning. Can you catch the meaning of each phrase from the face? How about this? We say "the face below the nose sinks down," which sort of means "be soft on women" or "thinking of something ecchi!"
Axolotl bowl
Ferrari will open a theme park in Dubai in 2010 and this is the design of the park. I, along with many other Japanese people, think of the Angels from Neon Genesis Evangelion when I look at that design. Apparently it's the seventh Angel, Israfel, right?
I love monjya yaki. I know, it looks like quot;puke" (sorry), but it tastes very good. It's a little bit sticky, so we use a small flat paddle to serve it. I heard that a monjya yaki izakaya opened in Shimokitazawa, which is my favorite town. I will check it out soon.
We sometimes have animal booms in Japan. In the past, we’ve had had a chihuahua boom, a red panda boom, and then a frill-necked lizard boom because of this TV ad:
Axolotl were also very popular in the 1980s. Because of their funny faces, they became popular as a kimo-kawaii character. Since we have an international trade regulation, there are axolotol that are bred within Japan. In the 1980s, one axolotl cost about 15,000 yen or so, but now the price is only 1/10 of what it used to be. So a breeding factory started to market them for edible consumption. This is an axolotl donburi. They say it tastes like chicken. Hmm, I am not sure I would want to try it.
This is a funny (or serious) list of Google suggestions. When you search the word "husband" in Japanese at Google Japan, Google suggests the popular search terms "husband, hope he dies," "husband, hate," "husband violent with words," "husband, fired," "husband, die, pension," and other negative phrases. On the other hand, when you search for the word "wife," the first suggestion is "wife, birthday gift" and the next is "wife, birthday gift ranking." Husbands are looking for gifts for their wives! Hmm… what a sad reality for Japan.
superalloy Apollo 11
Do you think this is real? "Geo-engineering Moscow Mayor Promises No Snow This Winter." We don't need snow! So let's have it fall in Alaska, he he he. If this can come true, the world will fight over rainclouds versus sunshine.
BANDAI will release this "Super Alloy Apollo 11 with Saturn V." Its total length is 76 cm. It’s constructed the same as the real Apollo 11; divided into 9 parts so you can reenact all stages of the Apollo as it traveled from the earth to the moon. Cooooooooool! I want it but it costs around $500! What do you think?
When I started my blog 5 years ago, there were not many good blogs about Japan, but now we can find really interesting ones like Pink Tentacle, Tokyomango, tokyololas. I found a new one today: "Michael Mckinlay.com" It's really fun to read! I like this silly Japanese shirt post, it's very true. Actually, one of my American friends collects silly English T-shirts. But I will say that foreign Japanese tattoos are the same. I can't understand why this guy would want the word "tomato" on his neck. By the way, when I found such great blogs about Japan, I realized that "introducing Japan" is no longer my role and it would be fun to change my blog into something new. I don't know yet what would be good though.
This is the new book "Otacool worldwide otaku rooms." If I search for the words "Otaku room" in Japanese, we can find some Japanese otaku rooms. It would be torturous for me to have to sleep in such a room.
Sachiko Kobayashi is a Japanese enka singer and she is well known for her super big electric dress on the Kohaku Utagassen (here is a photo of last year's dress). By the way, she came from Nigata and a 7.4m tall doll of her serves as part of a tourism campaign for Nigata. Since Nigara is famous for its "Koshi Hikari" rice, she is depicted on one knee, holding a rice paddle. Ha… how silly.
