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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 ....
The first official Japanese Star Wars convention kicked off last week. StarWars.com's Bonnie Burton covered the event with photos now viewable on her Flickr page.
Tags: japan, japanese, tokyo, 2008, star, asia, anniversary, flickr, celebration
Japanese poll monitors arrive in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (Kyodo) Japanese poll monitors have arrived in Cambodia to observe the election campaign, the voting and the counting process in next Sunday's National Assembly election, Japanese Ambassador ...
Tags: japanese, government, ceremony, election, cambodia, ambassador
Quiet changes in Japan's defense
Japan appears to be drifting aimlessly under a divided government, and its external policy seems equally disoriented under a Fukuda administration that has been up to its neck and largely unsuccessful in blazing new trails...
Tags: japan, japanese, new, government, military, osaka, politics
Katakana makes Japanese trendy and accessible
Words and phrases in katakana may appear to be easily recognizable to non-native speakers of Japanese, but they are often fiendishly difficult. This generally comes as a surprise to Japanese, who naturally assume that we can understa...
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
Taiwan's China thaw good for Japan, Ma says
TAIPEI (Kyodo) A recent warming in relations between bitter rivals China and Taiwan "is significant for Japan," Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said Monday while meeting with a delegation of Japanese lawmakers...
Tags: japan, japanese, china, release, president, taiwan, taiwanese
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
Seoul's choice: Busan or Takeshima
SOON OR LATE, South Korea will have to choose which paradigm to apply for its relations with Japan. They have two choices, both of which can be represented by geographical entities.nOne choice is Busan, a city of more ...
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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
Ayumi Hamasaki Visits HK Prior to Sept. Concert
Japanese pop star Ayumi Hamasaki was welcomed by delirious fans when she arrived in Hong Kong for a new project on Monday.More than 20 security guards were summoned to the airport to hold fans at bay, Tungstar reported.
Tags: japanese, new, star, fans, hong kong, concert, project, ayumi hamasaki
Despite my better judgement I braved the teeming Marine Day holiday masses in Shinjuku yesterday to see Sakamoto Junji's "Chameleon" at Toei's - or rather T-Joy, their distribution arm - flagship multiplex Wald 9.
Tags: japan, japanese, new, tokyo, korea, man, single, life, film, release, hong kong, party, free, south korea, men, death, money, fashion, market, style, artist, director, actor, female, review, system, car, dvd, fight, fire, environment, shooting, death note
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
Yui Ichikawa and Nana Eikura in Japanese Red Cross commercial
The Japan Red Cross Society JRCS 日本赤十字社, is the Japanese affiliate of the International Red Cross headquartered in Tokyo and with offices in all 47 prefectures of Japan. Founded in 1877, it has...
Tags: japan, japanese, tokyo, visit, website, international, commercial
Mangobot: Cool Futurist Female Artists from Japan
This week on Mangobot, I profiled two of my favorite female futurist artists, Yayoi Kusama and Mariko Mori. Although they're from two different generations, both are well-known in global contemporary art circles....
Tags: japan, japanese, new, tokyo, us, show, life, art, new york, female, global, artists
A recent survey found that 37% of the world's 70 million blogs are in Japanese. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications even more recently found that about 20 percent of Japan's over 88 million Internet...
Tags: japan, japanese, people, chinese, world, life, popular, english, blog, internet, blogs, sumo, boom
Filipino born to Japanese dad meets kin, pays respects
KAGOSHIMA (Kyodo) A war-displaced Filipino born to a Japanese man finally got to meet her Japanese relatives and pay her respects at her father's grave in Kagoshima Prefecture on Wednesday.
Korean protesters smash birds with hammers
Apparently this actually happened: About 40 military veterans wearing army uniforms staged a gory protest outside Japan's embassy yesterday.nThey cut the heads off live pheasants, Japan's national bird, and ...
Tags: japan, japanese, korean, live, minister, death, military, prime minister, protest, army
Well you may remember the Rockstar Bento Boxes. This time, I have bento boxes from the Dragon Ball anime. I could not find the source of these images, only a Youtube clip with screenshots of all the boxes...