watashi to tokyo

Sappro beer TV ads

Kamawanu is Japanese towell "Tenugui" shop. Tenugui decreased with the advent of towell, but it gets a higher opinion because of its design and variety of ways of use. This summer they released Kamawanu deisgn band-aid. Don't you think it's good for suveniour?

Sapporo purchased Canadian beer company Sleeman Breweries in 2006 and stared to make beer in Canada. This is their ad for North America, "Legendary Biru".

Sapporo Black label has great ads in Japan. Enjoy them.

A salary man hero

 

Karaoke party version, they fight to get microphone to sing "My way".

I will pick this "For people who been to Japan, what misconceptions did you have about Japan that you were surprised were untrue when you actually visited?"
"I used to think that Japanese people could be walked all over, and if pushed to their limit (which was almost impossible to do), they would quietly excuse themselves.I have since learned that their politeness covers up seething anger and contempt if you act like a jackass, and if pushed to a not-so-far-off limit, they will explode on you." orz my American said the same.

A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan

Ha ha ha lovely dog! 

This is a nice Tokyo video "A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan" made by Brad Kremer.

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Who can find it? great job! "The Most Famous Newspaper on TV Shows". Desperate Housewives, Married... with Children, etc. It seems like everyone is reading the same newspaper.

You can make your name in Kanji

My American friends said it's interesting that we can watch o-ne chara on TV programs. Actually gay, transsexual, bisexuals, divas appears on TV everyday, but basically we take them as a part of entertainment, actually most of them are comedian. How can I say... TV never show such sexual ! issue seriously. So we never ever have this type of TV commercial in Japan now. wow sad mood.

June 20th is Fathers day in Japan, I will go for dinner with my parents because I really don't know what he wants. At Yahoo!Shopping sake with father's name label is popular. It maybe good gift for foreign fathers too.
Anyway when you want to create your name with Kanji, "Kanji Fandom" will be useful, when you write English name, the site changes it into Kanji automatically. A good point is you can choose kanji characters checking the meaning of if by yourself. A bad point is we their combination is limited, they pick one character for one syllable, but some one kanji can tell two or more syllable, so there is more character combination.

I read Icebar Tokyo has changed their interior, they made nautical flavor wall and reindeer statues etc,. Entrance Fee3,500 yen (within tax), includes Cape to keep you warm during your stay, Personal ice glass, Choice of cocktail in your glass (or non-alcoholic drink). If you follow them on Twitter, they will give free second drink.

news of the world

Two news of animal! One is this; "Out of their tree: virus blamed as drunken parrots fall from sky". Native parrots are falling out of the sky because they are drunk! And other one is this ;"Millions of frogs close road in Greece". The massed ranks of frogs has forced a key highway near the town of Langadas in the north of the country to close for two hours on Wednesday. Strange news...it's sign of something bad?

I picked this ipad magic video, today I found one with English subtitle. I didn't notice yesterday but people's comments are funny. "on 1:05-1:09 he tries to? take the string out of his fingers that connects to the dove." "You can see the bird at 0:58 aww poor birdy, but I think this video? is great otherwise" ha ha ha

WILLER TRAVEL is bus tour company, they have released new bus with shell type seats "willer express cocoon". You can lie down and enjoy on-demand movie, music, games. One way ticket between Tokyo and Osaka costs 9800yen - 11800yen and it will take 10 hours or so. Considering that we can get air plane ticket less than 10000yen in Hayawari which a system of advanced purchase discount fares and it will takes less than one hour, I am not sure I will use this bus.

Amazing Animated Optical Illusions!

Great CG? ad of Korean car "soul"

iPad magic!!

Wow Great magic on iPad!!

Hatoyama resign announces resignation, he has worked as primie minister for 8 months, 259days only. It's short! But this is nothing new.Here are last 5 prime minister recored : Aso Rozen Taro 358days, Fukuda "I am different from you"365days, Abe "Abesuru" 366days, Legend Koizumi 1980days, Mori 387days. It's matter of politician's ability but this time poeple p! oint out of media hype. At least I can read such words on Twitter. We need start to think without media's filter and personally we can select prime minister by ourselves like the U.S. We should take responsibility to our own choice.

Anyway, as usual TV Tokyo do the same. They follow their own path anytime.

Finally home...

"Because Every Country Is The Best At Something." Japan is number 1 in robots and number of web users.
Speaking of the web,Yahoo! Japan announced a partnership agreement with China's largest commerce site, Taobao, and opened Yahoo! China mall today. We can buy Chinese products in Japanese, since the site uses a translation bot, the translations are funny, but not impossible to understand. Today, I found a "Vii," maybe I can find an "Iped" soon! Anyway, this is the reason why I was so busy at work last week. Hope I can get off earlier this week.
 
Wow!! Don't you think this is a good idea? "FIFA World Cup: T-shirt." By the way, did you know this? The Japanese team made all the goals, but still lost to England!
 
I read that Japanese straight hair perms are pretty good and that foreign people love to have them done in Japan. Would you try it when you visit?