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- Japanese Robot walking from Tokyo to Kyoto
- September 24th, 2010Category: Culture
- We all remember the Duracell bunny and the series of ads that ran on TV, pointing out that the fluffy, little guy with a heart of copper could go on and on and on...... and on. Panasonic, however, has taken the concept and put its own unique (Japanese) spin on things ... » Continue Reading
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- Capoeira as a cross-training tool
- September 22nd, 2010Category: Culture
- Not too long ago, I was responding to a comment made in a previous entry I had written about correlations between Capoeira and Break dancing. The writer had mentioned that he was a jiu-jitsu student and that he thought that studying Capoeira would be great for his gam ... » Continue Reading
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- Akihabara morphing into a Sextoys ‘R’ Us
- September 21st, 2010Category: Culture
- Shops hawking sex toys, inflatable dolls and such SM goods as whips and dominatrix costumes, are what you’d typically expect to find in raunchy drinking areas like Kabukicho. But increasingly, reports Japanese magazine SAPIO (Sept 29), such outlets have been springing ... » Continue Reading
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- Love Exposure vs. Battle Royale
- September 17th, 2010Category: Culture
- Why had I not heard about this movie? Not Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル) - I picked up that DVD a few years ago (in Australia) and it remains one of my favourites. I'm talking about Love Exposure (愛のむきだし), a 4-hour 2008 romp directed by poet/filmmaker Sion Sono that I wa ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese Crime
- September 13th, 2010Category: Culture
- Flipping through recent crime reports, the Japanese magazine Spa! noticed a strange thing. A disproportionate number of perpetrators seemed to be in their 30s. So it proved, on closer examination. In the past three months, among 296 crimes serious enough to draw media ... » Continue Reading
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- Ocean Sustainability: From Taiji to the World
- September 9th, 2010Category: Culture, Photography
- The photo depicts a peaceful inlet of coastal water in Taiji, a little known whaling town on the Pacific coast of Japan's Kii Peninsula in Wakayama Prefecture. Taiji is on the tail end of a larger area known as Kumano, which boasts an impressive array of world heritage ... » Continue Reading
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- 2.7 billion yen – the price tag for cool Japan
- September 9th, 2010Category: Culture
- Late last month, Asahi News reported that the government ministries involved in promoting the image of 'Cool Japan' around the world have requested a budget of 2.7 billion yen (32 million USD) for next year. That's the money used to help promote food, manga, fashion ... » Continue Reading
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- More Western movies being dubbed as Japanese tire of subtitles
- September 7th, 2010Category: Culture
- The number of Western movies subtitled in Japanese is rapidly declining as 3D movies become more common and viewers grow more averse to reading text on screen. Instead, many cinemas in Japan are opting to show films dubbed in Japanese. That's the story coming out of ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo Gloss
- September 7th, 2010Category: Culture, Photography
- You want something. But you don’t know what it is. She is there for you. Swathed in concrete and electric light, sublime and feral, frenetically interconnected in ways neural synapses are jealous of, she can provide anything you can imagine. Prowling the back-alleys and ... » Continue Reading
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- Money Worship
- August 31st, 2010Category: Culture
- We took a look at his business background previously and now Japan Trends is reporting on a new move by Takafumi Horie, the former CEO of Livedoor who dropped out of Tokyo University and tried to take over one of the biggest media companies in Japan. That move? Into ... » Continue Reading
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