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Julia Ling plays Anna Wu on Chuck. She has made appearances in a few episodes of Chuck. Anna Wu works at the Buy More store, as part of Chuck's Nerd Herd team. The techie geek girl likes Linux and Star Wars.
Tags: japanese, new, chinese, korean, music, show, asian, american, life, girl, star, anime, english, president, dance, singing, dancing, birthday, shooting, birth, martial arts, tennis, painting
Animated Resident Evil Movie First Screening At TGS
At this year's Tokyo Game Show, Sony Pictures and Capcom will have the world premier of Resident Evil: Degeneration, an all new CG-animated feature film. It's being produced by Hiroyuki Kobayashi...
Tags: japan, new, world, tokyo, video, us, 2008, show, american, government, movie, popular, release, film, business, festival, debut, new york, director, game, war, commercial, attack, video game, film festival, sony, premiere, horror, virus
Stationmaster cat boosts local economy by ¥1.1 billion
The Wakayama Electric Railway Co. was in serious financial trouble a couple years ago, but their brilliant decision to make a cat named Tama the official stationmaster of Kishi Station has drawn in thousands of visitors from across...
Tags: japan, new, tv, 2007, school, food, woman, money, couple, photo, dvd, economy, tourism
The Japanese Way to Fold a Tshirt Quickly
I saw this a couple of years back, but forgot all about it until today. Its a clip in Japanese demonstrating how to fold a tshirt in a cool and rather quick way.
Well its been nearly four months since we filmed this video ^^; The main reason that it took so long was because every time I sat down to edit it, it was taking ages to get the hand movements in sync with the music...
Tags: japan, video, tokyo, us, music, 2008, life, popular, dance, list, youtube, probe, ipod
2008 Web 2.0 Expo Japan - Cancelled
CMP Media Japan recently announced that a number of keynote speakers for the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo Japan have canceled and thus they are forced to cancel the event. This is unfortunate but not surprising.
Tags: japan, tokyo, 2008, media, 2007, asia, market, list, yahoo, google
Screaming Japanese Fans in Bus Shelter Advertising
Big in Japan is a Swedish reality show featuring two ordinary Swedes that have one month to make it big in Japan. To advertise the show, billboards are equipped with motion detectors and speakers...
An imprint of DC comics intended to function as an American alternative to manga, has folded shop. On the surface, Minx seemed like a good idea; why not translate the manga medium for a more America audience,.....
Tags: japan, japanese, new, world, love, american, life, popular, 2007, school, foreign, culture, manga, parents, otaku, design, launch, british
[Performance] Zeebra ft. Jeese (Rize) - Not Your Boyfriend
![[Performance] Zeebra ft. Jeese (Rize) - Not Your Boyfriend](http://ningin.com/photos/submits/3f2/c10499dee6988e6bddc5718495f5ea61-thumb100.jpg)
I usually don't rip performances on my own but when this week's Music Japan episode was released and I saw Zeebra as one of the performance I had to rip it. It is extremely rare to see Zeebra perform live on one of the music shows...
Jiko Shokai: Japanese Self Introductions
One interesting concept I learned about soon after coming to Japan was jiko shokai, which just means "self introduction" but which seems to have a special cultural significance here.
Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, group, children, students, parents, teacher
Japanese scientists identify daytime sleepiness gene
Japanese scientists believe they have found the gene that causes narcolepsy. It occurs in 1 out of 2,500 individuals in the United States and Europe, but is at least 4 times more frequent in Japanese.
Tags: japanese, united states
Taro Aso as Edward G. Robinson
Taro Aso, a direct descendant of the great 19th century political revolutionary Toshimichi Okubo, is the brashest and most charismatic prime minister since Jun'ichiro Koizumi (left). But if Koizumi is Elvis ...
Tags: japanese, visit, film, foreign, minister, prime minister
Press criticizes decision to display Japanese flag at official government briefings
When Finance Ministers in other countries appear before the press, it is quite common to see national flags displayed behind them. However, when Japan's new finance minister suggested such a practice, some members of the...
Sento-kun's creator auctions bronze sculpture
Sculptor Satoshi Yabuuchi is auctioning a limited-edition bronze statue of Sento-kun, the popular but controversial official mascot he designed for the Commemorative Events of the 1,300th Anniversary of the Nara-Heijokyo...
Tags: japan, popular, festival, yahoo, anniversary
Nendoroids : Cute, Large Headed Designer Toys
Danny Choo posts a load of photos of Nendoroids which are a series of figures from the Good Smile Company, where the key characteristic is a huge head on a small body.
Illustration of a Japanese person
The image used for the word "Japanese person" in a Japanese language textbook created by the Korea Association of Innovated Foreign Language Education (from Brian in Jeollanam-do)...
Beautiful Japanese lamps made out of recycled material
The Tokyo American Club has these awesome lamps by artist Shoichi Sakurai. He and his American wife make beautiful lamps and other furniture using recycled materials, like the breastplate of broken Edo period armor and old rusty...
Tags: japanese, tokyo, american, artist, art, beautiful, project, wife, charity
While TVXQ / DBSK recently came back to the Korean market after a long stay in Japan, Big Bang will be doing the opposite by going to Japan this month.
Oricon Top 10 CD Singles Daily Charts - NEWS takes the #1 spot
On new release Wednesday. Which artist or band took the #1 spot for Japan's Oricon CD Single Daily Charts?
Japan Tobacco vs the Neighborhood
ジャパン・タバコの中野区の寮When I moved into my apartment in Tokyo's Nakano ward, in the Chuo 1-chome district, about four years ago, the Japan Tobacco dormitory complex just a few meters down the road was in use...
Tags: japan, people, tokyo, couple, workers, yahoo, democracy