watashi to tokyo

"Mame!!"- "BOW!"

This is so cute!! His name is Mame. 

"Mame!!"- "BOW!"
"That's it? "- "BOW!"
"You think it's good?" - "BOW"
"Softer, right?" - "bow"
"more, more soft" - "pow"
"prettier, prettier" - "how"

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Olive is a site for sharing designs, food, and ideas that help people living in disaster areas.

This is the worst tsunami video I've found. Guess which structure was still safe in the end.

Do you know the game "Disaster Report"? You play a character that is trying to survive and escape from a city slowly collapsing because of big earthquakes. My coworker likes this game very much, but she said that "Disaster Report 4 Cancelled" was announced today. Ahh, what bad timing.

 

Ninjya squirrel

Ninja squirrel!!! He can scale walls very well.

Shonen Jump released the latest issue of their magazine for free this week for the people in Tohoku. It's only in Japanese, but if you like, go ahead and try reading it (you need to download a special viewer). Please check out Naruto, One Piece, and more!

Searching for Godzilla, I was so suprised to read this post! 

 

Earth Hour!

We're having an "Earth Hour" from 8:30 to 9:30 pm in Japan. Tokyo Tower will turn off its lights and I will join in at home.

Super strange ad from somewhere. I don't think WWF Japan made it, what are those characters on the wall?

 

Japanese critics on TV

Some Japanese pundits on TV. They have dramatic hair styles.

Military critic.

Emergency medical care critic.

Sudo Genki and World Order released a new slow motion music video. Cool!

 

amenimo makezu

Radiation levels are rising in the Tokyo water supply and Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano said "Don't let babies under the age of one to drink from the tap". Bottled water sold out quickly at Yahoo! Japan Shopping after we got the news. Crazy... "don't panic, calm down" is what I want to say to the Japanese people.

Ken Watanabe created the site "Kizuna311" with his fellow artists to support the disaster-hit areas. He read a famous poem called "Ame ni mo makezu" that was written by Kenji Miyazawa, a poet from the Iwate prefecture (part of the tsunami disaster area). This is one of my favorites, a beautiful poem. This translation is better than the video.

 

Power saving game

Today, Yahoo! Japan set up a power usage meter at the top of its homepage for people in the Kanto area who are trying to save power. Actually, they say that this power shortage will last until summer! If we have a super hot summer like we did last year, it will be hell. Also, I found this "saving power game," people check their power meters and tweet the numbers with the tag #denkimeter. Playing this game will help you learn which appliances (TV? fridge? microwave?) use the most power, it's a good idea.

This is Lum-chan of the manga Urusei Yatsura, as drawn by famous manga artists. Tetsuo Hara's Lum-chan is too sexy. She looks like she's from "Fist of the North Star".

 

I found this viral ad for Intel on the Internet! The ad's not released here in Japan, but I really like it.

I must admit, Japan Intel has made a lot of strange TV ads.

"Centrino, Centroino, Centrino"

"Travian, samuhai, samuhai!" The ballerina says: "This morning when I woke up, I became like this!!  Hmm... Kafka world.

 

The pro soccer team Valencia changed their jerseys to spell out their names in katakana to cheer up Japan! Wow, so great! Thanks! That's lovely!

Akira Toriyama, viewing this video will be donated to the victims in Japan

TEPCO says they may restore power to the cooling systems of the #1 and #2 plants in Fukushima, and maybe they will make it to the rest of them tomorrow! Things are getting better now. :-D And it's a miracle! Wow, a young guy was found in a broken house over 186 hours after the tsunami!

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Yes, we have the seed of hope. This is an opinion piece by Ryu Murakami that NY Times published.

 

Finally, people are actually starting to freak out and some are panic buying. I really don't need to check Geiger counters or hoard a lot of toilet paper because the earthquake doesn't make me poo more than usual. But the good thing is that there are lot of people who are staying calm. Here are posters that advise people to "stop panic buying."

 

The Twitter #tag "#edano_nero" is hot in Japan now. Edano is the Chief Cabinet Secretary. Since the earthquake hit, he has been appearing on TV everyday and has been explaining what is going on in a calm tone of voice. He tries not to avoid questions from the press. Now people are tweeting with the tag “#edano_nero” at the end of their tweets to encourage Edano. It means “Edano— go to sleep” in Japanese. Because we know that he has not been sleeping enough during this disaster. And some Twitter users are getting frustrated at Prime Minister Kan. They have added the hashtag “kan_okiro” (Kan – Wake Up) at the end of their messages.

Understand the Fukushima Nuclear Plant situation with manga

An animator made a video so that people can understand this nuclear accident. I really like this idea because the Japanese have a poop obsession. :-)

thank you very much

Thank you very much, we really appreciate your support. This is a video showing a village that received an unexpected donation of food from the US military.