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Ramen for Geeks Changes Flavors while you Eat
Otaku (Japanese geeks) are usually too busy figurine-shopping to worry about what they eat for dinner. Most of them subsist on a strict diet of instant noodles so much so that there's even an instant noodle specialty store ....
An Asian Parents' Worst Nightmare: Son Gives Up Medicine to Blog
Source: New York Times. Arnold Kim, founder and senior editor of MacRumors.com.nWhen I first began to read this New York Times article, "My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple...
Tags: new, people, asian, popular, home, blog, money, new york, parents, technology, increase, figure, google, apple, rumor, medicine
Ichiro Suzuki's Favorite American Expression
For those who need the subtitles, he says it's, "August in Kansas City, is hotter than two rats in a fu&$*ng wool sock."
New protein named after Pikachu
You just have to already know this is coming from Japan. A group of researchers at the Osaka Bioscience Institute has discovered a protein that is vital to transmitting information to the brain Yomiuri writes....
Tags: japan, new, group, anime, media, popular, osaka, energy
Brilliant Japanese coffee commercials
The best commercials on Japanese TV recently are the coffee commercials, in my opinion (that is, if you don't include the Softbank commercials, of course, since they are in a class by themselves) n Lately, two coffee brands stand...
Tags: japanese, song, tv, website, english, youtube, commercial, singing
Japan is a great country, with a lot to offer both short-term visitors and tourists as well as people like me, who like the place so much we put down permanent roots. But still, Japan is far from perfect, and there are ...
Tags: japan, japanese, people, american, english, live, free, foreign, war, language, rural
Umi no hi 3-day holiday weekend in Japan
The 3Yen is on vacation—Monday is Marine Day Umi no hi, which makes a 3-day holiday weekend here in Japan. Marine Day is claimed to be, "a day of gratitude for the blessings of the oceans and to hope for the economic prosperity...
Tofu vendor on Tokyo's streets
I was wandering through the streets of Tokyo's beautiful Minami Azabu district yesterday afternoon, a part of the city's Minato ward with perhaps the biggest concentration of foreign embassies.
Tags: japan, tokyo, foreign, summer, beautiful, youtube, yahoo, tradition
A TEAM of student soldiers is going to India to help 450 disabled children.
Foreign athletes train in Japan for the Beijing Olympics
About 1,000 athletes, coaches, trainers and officials from at least 25 nations have chosen Japan instead of China as a training location prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics...
Tags: japan, japanese, china, new, chinese, world, korea, 2008, beijing, women, food, international, south korea, men, foreign, games, shanghai, olympic, olympics, train, tibet, rich, safety, rules, crackdown, pollution
Bored with mainstream exercise routines? Why not try the Yakitori Jiisan, a dance from Fukushima Prefecture that has become popular on the internet because of how funny it looks....
Reuters is reporting that Chongqing is now rationing power along with 12 other provinces in their article China's Chongqing starts to ration power...
Tags: china, man, free, couple, shanghai, list, power, water, energy, shortage
There is now a Mac Store in China! The unveiling of the first Apple Store in China took place Saturday at the new Villages mall at Sanlitun. Over the weekend there were huge crowds packed in, especially around MacBook Airs...
Bullshit: Made-Up Japanese Sex Stories
The good news: Everything you ever read about the sexual perversities of the Japanese may still by true. The bad: If you read it in the "WaiWai" column of the Mainichi Daily News, it probably isn't.
Tags: japanese, tokyo, popular, english, women, language, sex, restaurant, copyright, apology
Stationmaster cat gets summer bonus
The Wakayama Electric Railway has given a special summer bonus to Tama, a cat that serves as stationmaster of Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line. The bonus consists of a cooling pad and a custom-made mesh hat to replace the...
East Japan Railway Co. began the school summer holidays with the launch of a fleet of bullet trains decorated with characters from the popular anime Pokemon...more...
Tags: japan, japanese, 2008, anime, popular, school, summer, train, launch
I had the craving for sushi a few nights ago, but never made it out. But Mona came to the rescue with her Lego Sushi find. It didn't satisfy my hunger, but it definitely made me smile.
A new Dragonball movie post was released by the Sankei Shimbun paper which shows the lead actor Justin Chatwin standing in Goku's trademark orange gi. The Kanji on the poster literally means "The legend comes to life."
Family gets Tokyo Disney Sea all to itself
For the Fukuyo family, Friday was the chance of a lifetime: They had the entire Tokyo DisneySea theme park to themselves for 2 1/2 hours, with no waits for all the rides they could handle.nYasuhisa Fukuo, 38, his wife, Sumiko...
Tags: tokyo, family, wife, anniversary
Randy newman's "korean parents"
I don't know what to make of this. Singer/songwriter Randy Newman, whose work has been no stranger to controversy, has a song on his latest album called "Korean Parents," which he is apparently...