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Silent hill was stopped sales in Japan

The new Silent Hill Homecoming game has stopped its sales in Japan. Konami didn't release any details; they just said that this game isn’t suitable to the Japanese market. I guess they judged that it is too violent or freaky. Maybe I can see the trailer on the US site, but I can't... it’s too scary.
 
I picked this topic before: "Japanese couple charged nearly 700 Euros for a seafood lunch become an unwitting symbol of tourist rip-offs in the Italian capital." But the Japanese couple turned down an offer from the Italian government. Now, three Japanese guys were charged over 7,000 Euros at a club in Italy and the Italian government is doing a lot to help them. I guess the Italian government must act quickly in such cases because Japanese people love brand-name products and pay a lot of money to buy Italian brands.
 
PlayStation Eye Research Paves the Way for Auto-Generated Avatars, Augmented-Reality Porn. Wow, it's a great technique. We may get to play online games with our own faces soon.
 
A reasonably-priced kaiten-sushi chain KURA opened up a shop in California. They will have some special types of sushi aimed at the America market that they won’t offer in Japan, but now we can eat those American sushi rolls for a limited time only. They are offering eel California rolls, Philadelphia rolls with salmon and cream cheese, and Rainbow rolls (salmon, tuna and shrimp with avocado). Do these sound good to Americans? I prefer the original rolls. :-)

Rare custom cars in Japan!!

Rare custom cars in Japan!! It's funny.

Ninja office

I has spend super busy week and I hope I can write my blog more in next week.

A T-shirt says "It wouldn't matter if you die" is sold well on the Intenet. That was phrase that comedy group DownTown of my favorite serise "can't laugh" use on the TV show. That's T-shirt is cute and in back it say "lie". I would love it.

Samurai factory is Japanese web company, I used thier an access analysis service Ninjalyzer for my Japanese web site before. By the way this blog talks about their office. They made office Samurai and Nijya mood with Japanese taste, that's funny IT company has such office. The guy is Samurai factory president. wow cool.

Ninja game

 

This is promotion video of Ninjya Game.

   

Ha ha ha... Letterman show picked Hatoyama wife. Talking about UFO, I also couldn't understand why Google use this UFO logo. Telegraph UK wrote "Google UFO logo 'mystery' solved". They said it will be related to "All your base are belong to us " . One of my favorite topic! Really? What do you think?

Peko chan is a target of Yakuza

Yakuza steals giant Peko-chan dolls. The Giant peko-chan doll can sell about 200,000yen to collecters.

This graph show an average commute　time to work and school. Pink is time to school, blue is time to work. Left is Tokyo area and center is Nagoya area, right one is Kansai Area. Students in Kansai take 76 minutes to school! Wow long ride. I ride a train for one hour to work. Time is not so bad, but it's so crowded and recent years so hot because ecology issue, they don't use AC well. This morning, a fat guy stand next to me and I had to be patient to his sweat attaching me all the way to work. Here is the worst rush train, the train I ride everyday is not so crazy like that though.

Our new prime minister's wife was caught on a UFO, she said. 'My soul rode on a UFO to Venus... it was very green'. Hmm it's interesting. I hope she won't shut up such her straight talking because of this news.

Ryogoku is Sumo town, you can see Sumo wrestler there. In Ryogoku, you can find big size clothes and shoes. And McDonalds in Ryogoku has big size chair for Sumo wrestler. By the way, American Japanese twins has passed Sumo wrestler test. They have American father and Japanes mother. They went to American high schoool and did football and wrestling in high school. Ganbare!

I laughed to read this one "The most WTF pic I've seen today (PIC)". Comments are so funny. This video is sauce of this photo, it doesn't make sense to Japanese too. Crazy.

Toyota will make car with alcohol sensor

Today is Doraemon's birthday. So Google Japan has a Doraemon title logo.This will only happen in Japan.

10 people died from flu in Japan. At my work, we have antiseptic solution at each door and have to use masks if we have a cough. Today I read an article that a new mask from America will be released, this one. Duck? Do you use this?

Today's new technology from Japan, Toyota will make a car with an alcohol sensor. If it senses alcohol on your breath, the engine won't work.

I like this news, Thailand is trying to make Pad Thai a global food like Pizza or hamburger. I like Pad Thai very much so I welcome it. Japan is doing the same thing for Yakisoba, since global Japanese foods are all expensive stuff like sushi or shabu shabu that even the Japanese don't eat every day. (Ramen is not though.) I hope you can know more casual Japanese food like yakisoba, okonomiyaki, oden, Japanese curry, etc.

eco fridge

Very cute origami work. The Completed Origami is great, though I like such simple ones.

Panasonic released the eco-navi washer/dryer and fridge. This washer/dryer will change the amount of water and washing time automatically by sensor. The fridge learns its user's life time. If you don't open the fridge in the daytime but after 7pm you open it often like that, then it changes the washer & dryer and saves energy. The electric appliance makes eco and saves by itself. That's wonderful, I will buy those things when I change my fridge and washing machine. The problem is my electric stuff doesn't break so easily except for PC. My TV was made in 1984, I bought it to watch the Los Angeles Olympics in my room.

Wow, beautiful! A Chinese guy transformer.In Japan, we watch "O-ne chara" who are gay guys or a bisexual guys, who by their behavior (sometimes their looks too) are like a lady on TV every day. Now the most popular O-ne chara will be Ai Haruna. Since he got sex reassignment surgery, I should not call him O-ne chara though.

I wrote we have a Samurai boom, and now we have "samurai maid cafes". Here is the costume of the maids...orz