The interesting two foreign news. The one is this "TAU takes first steps in creating living cyberbrain". It made me nervous a little. Always in the movie, cyberbrain has to go out of control :-) I love this one from Manchester "Police rake in leafy robbery suspect".
I read Chinese people argue about this artificial panda dog, the guy color his dog with white and black. In Japan, we have a lovely heart dog. Ahhhh cute, his heart is natural. Of course his name is heart kun.
I am watching this TV just write now. I think it is interesting and I wonder someone up it on the Youtube, then I found it. Please check it befor it's deleted. "Naked Festival with Tokyo Shockboys-1" and 2. It's a traditional Japanese festival of Holy man and naked men.
Capgemini and Merrill Lynch released their 11th annual world wealth report. They say 1.48 million people have a million dollars in this country. It means one out of every hundred Japanese has a million dollars. Of course that hundred includes babies and kids... Hmm, it means some of my co-worker should have a million dollars... I don't think so. This is a single women's topic site. Their monthly magazine "psiko" sent a readers・questionnaire to 1000 working single women in their 30s. According to the result, 30.2% of the 30s women have less than 500,000 yen saved. 56.7% said "no savings" or "I save when I have money," "I don't save every month." Well, to be honest with you, the results sounds a little bit unreal for me. I think working women in their 30s will have more. On that point, this site shows a 36 years old woman's monthly income and expense. Her income is 331,045 yen. Rent is 78,000 yen (in the Kansai area). Food 40000 yen, Energy 4518 yen, Tel 5537 yen, Internet 5143 yen, cable TV 3675 yen, clothes 25640 yen, cosmetics 15000 yen, hair 17850 yen, Gym 9975 yen, Insurance 2180 yen, and the biggest one is social expenses 52000yen. But she is doing well because she saves 54464 yen per month. For me, her account looks very real.
By the way, psiko magazine asked "How much do you pay during dates with your boyfriend?" 41.2% replied "I don't have any BF." I wrote this post, " teh Single, 30's and older, No kids" woman can be called "a loser" a few year ago. Now we have another trend "Himono Onna"(web translate). Himono is Japanese dried fish. Himono Onna means "Dried fish woman." A himono onna is a woman spending a "dry" life without romance and other luxury events. The words originated from the manga "Hotaru No Hikari". And the official site has your Himono Onna check. Here is some of their check list.
-You are not sure of your correct BRA size.
-Your mail reply is slow and short. (YES!)
-You say it's a pain, messy, what a pain often.
-You taje off shirts and sweater or jeans and underwear together.
-You eat standing in the kitchen sometimes.
You think you are a Himono Onna? "Hotaru no Hikari is being made into a TV drama, so this boom might be bigger.
This is the site where mc-API will rap with your site URL in Japanese. I made this rap "mari diary".
You know what?! It is very very difficult to find hamburger buns in Japan. I am planning on having a hamburger party, though I am not sure I can have it anymore.... By the way I checked the hamburger page of Wiki. In the Japanese burger part, they say tsukimi burger means "artisan taste". Hmm I think it's wrong-- tsukimi burger means "the moon festival burger." (it will be the same as Mid-autumn festival in other countries) It comes from Sunny side up inside burger. I think wiki confused with Takumi burger of Mos. It can be said "artisan taste".
Yes!! a frozen mammoth will come to Japan. I was so exited to read this news. I wonder if it will be woolly? How big? Is it possible to carry it on an airplane? etc. BUT! here is the picture of mammoth. Hmm CHIBI!!(small) mammoth was a boy, he would be one years old, 130cm in height and 50kg in weigh. Japanese scientist are trying to bring woolly mammoths back by Jurassic Park style . I think the boy will work for them too.
This is the post shows "a weird picture book of girls car gangs". The book is old, and I am not sure we can find those people still now in this country. The funny part was the last picture. A girls gang went to Hiroshima and took a commemorative picture....They hoped for peace? Ha ha, I hope so.
The season of "Beer Garden" has come. Here is the 2007 beer garden information site. I checked some good place. My coworker is going to this place "New Tokyo" they have beer and eat Mongolian BBQ all-you-can-eat buffet for 3980yen. Takao san is the good hiking point in Tokyo, they open a beer garden for only two months. Beer will be delicious more after two hours of climbing. You like Beer? Beer garden is much more enjoyable in summer time.
'Beware of Dog'? This is a very cute generator, and you can use Japanese there. It will be nice to make icons for SNS.
I really love this news. Researchers Chart Internet's 'Black Holes.' There is a Matrix world or Motoko Kusanagi would dive into there.
The embassy of Sweden in Tokyo has a small exhibition "Human Dimension-Industrial Design from Sweden". It's free.
I think this is a nice idea (web translated). A sample shop has opened in Harajuku. You pay 300 yen to register and 1000 yen for an annual passport to enter the shop. The shop has various product samples: foods, cosmetics, electric products and you can use or take some home freely. The shop collects the user's opinion and reports it to the company. Don't you think this is an interesting idea?
Collective Store is a T-Shirt store where you can buy your order T-Shirts or Collaboration T-shirts with cultural stuff. As the same project, UNIQLO's UT store is much bigger though, this Collective Store has some more Tokyo local collaboration, customized cloth types, and color. This is the collaboration with club LOOP in Aoyama. Hm, I like that black simple one. This is the one with a sort of independent music label S2S . They have popular graphic artist Shu Thang's original T-shirts too. Recently they released another Tokyo local T-shirt: "Save the Simokitazawa". I wrote about it before in this post. Shimokita lovers including me want to keep the Shimokitazawa the way it is, funky, free, artistic and small. The project opened an English site so please check it out.
I am walking around Yamanote line now. You may check where I am now and drop a line to me in this site.
とにかく がんばります。
I will walk the Yamanote line in this weekend. On the 9th (Japan time), we will update where we are walking in real time by GPS. You can see it in this site and hopefuly you will drop me a line, "Go, Mari, go." Thanks!
Is he okay? A newscaster of NHK has made a drastic change in just a month. Hmm what has happened to him?
Warren Cromartie came to Japan to join Hustle Aid 2007. What is that? Pro-Wrestling. Here is his comeent movie. Cromartie, Dennith Rodman...Well at least they will make big money from this.
How many sheets of tissue can stop a gun? This is a topic of the TV show "Spring of Trivia." Since it is impossible to test in Japan, they tried it in a live firing range in Korea. Ha ha ha, Check it out in this video. Hmm, tissue is strong. But useless trivia.
Talking of trivia, a small Studio Ghibli trivia quiz became a topic on the Internet last week. Unfortunately I didn't watch both movies. If you like it, you will notice it without my explaining. "The end of Colonel Muska from "Castle in the Sky and "The result of Gina's wager (she will love him if he visits her in the garden) from "Porco Rosso". Here is the movie of answer. But I 've found those are written in the English Wikipedia.
I like robots, but I can't like this one...My type is the poker-faced Murata Seitaku.
Ahhhhhhh!!! Every topic sucks today. Apparently America has better topics today. I love this "Red Sox fans mock A-Rod's frolicking with blond babes". Wow, did you see this? Google Street the best 10 views. That dog and homeless guy story is sad but others are nice. I wish we have it soon on Goggle Japan.
The Japanese Hotel Mikazuki has a 1.2 million dollar Golden bath. You can take a bath at no fee, but it has a time restriction and the guard would stand at the door. How can I relax in that? Then yesterday it was stolen. It would be melted and made into bars already. Bye bye, vulgar shiny bath.
I checked the Japan page of Uncyclopedia. Ha! It is getting funny and worse. Recently I found some foreign topics about Japan and Japanese.
This is an article from Wired: "Fetish Cafes Cater to Geeks." Originally "Shomuni" was a TV drama about office ladies in uniform; this is their DVD. Hmm, you want to them to serve your shabushabu? ....orz
"Eigo de Shabera night" (Can you speak English? ) is an English study and entertaiment TV program of NHK(national channel). Not only studying English, they have good contents sometimes. I picked this before. Recently they introduced BBC TV shows about Japan. Ahh, really? I admit they are funny but I have never gotten a fish in return for chocolates ....orz
Pato Fu is a popular Brazilian Rock band. ( I didn't know them though.) Their song "Made in Japan" has weird lyrics and a strange video. Here it is. Here are their lyrics. I will add them to my Japan/Tokyo in music collection..
Pato Fu - Made In Japan
Up to now, human beings have had terrible experiences
Japan was the only one that received a hot atomic bomb
They sell good, inexpensive, pretty products to the world
It is revenge for the atomic bomb
A genuine America-made amplifier
is a surprise to open
almost all of it is made in Japan
I thought, "It can't be helped."
made in Japan, made in Japan, made in Japan
There is a secret in the project
NASA has the solution to this
I am relieved about this
NASA is always by our side
人間は、今まで恐ろしい目にあってきた
熱い原爆を一人で受けた日本
良くて安くてきれいな商品を世界に売っている
原爆のあだを返している
本物のアメリカ製のアンプ
開けてびっくり
ほとんどの部品は、日本製
私は、思ったの「ああ、仕方がない」
メイドインジャパン・メイドインジャパン・メイドインジャパン
プロジェクトには、秘密がある
これは、NASAが解決する
これで私は、安心だ
NASAは、いつも私たちの横についてる。
Ahhh, nothing fun to write today. So I picked something weird. Look at this fat rabbit, it's cute? Funny? Weird? But the photo has some fantastic charm.
I didn't know this: Moetan is a series of English language study aids for Otaku. You can hear the samples on this official site. And it will be made into the TV anime in July...For me, it looks weird.
Tokyo Dome is the home ground of the Tokyo Giants. They have a Monday special beer ticket. This is the official site with some retro mood song which we call "Mood Kayo" and here is the movie of that song...funny but weird.
This is "Faux Repair" plate. They say "notes: in the Japanese tradition of drawing attention to a flaw in the glaze by filling it with gold." Hum, it will mean "Kintsugi." We say a href="http://www.anagama.co.uk/5-2_fakes.html" target="_blank">"Kintsugi" is not just repair, but to add some gold makes a new appearance and new worth for ceramics, so I understand their idea. But I can't agree with the price: $550... Art? Design?
I have muscle pain because of Billy's Bootcamp. The DVD is really really popular now and we can't buy the DVD without waiting for three weeks. In the official store, Billy's band costs $15 or so, but in Yahoo Japan auction it costs around $50 now. This is a part of the Japanese TV ad. Hmm, it looks like magic. But getting popular means he has to be a toy of the Internet. I suppose Billy will come to Japan because of this crazy boom. People need exercise, especially desk workers like me. BUT what do you think about this??...weird.