Street Peeper is a new blog devoted to global street fashion. The Asian cities featured here include Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo, but Bangkok hasn’t yet joined the party…
PinkTentacle.com:
Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun […]
Check out “The Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks.”
I would kill for a taste of the Pepsi Ice Cucumber. Not to mention the Coolpis Kimchi Drink.
Hi, all. I’m back.
I have a story at Tripmaster Monkey today about Asia’s craziest buildings. Enjoy (and leave a comment at the bottom of the article, if you like).
Seriously. Click on the link for a bigger pic of what appears to be a pizza with sausage and cheese embedded in its crust. Can any Japanese readers out there help me with a translation?
(Via.)
I’m not making this up.
(Via.)
– “Shutting Themselves In,” about Japanese boys who hole up in their rooms for years at a time;
– “10 things to do for free in Tokyo”;
– Weird Japanese TV clips compilation.
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The December 20th issue of the Economist contains a fascinating, must-read story about robots and Japan. Why is that Westerners tend to be afraid of artificial intelligence, and yet many Japanese actually prefer the company of robots to real humans? The answer, the Economist says, has to do with religion and popular culture:
Few Japanese have […]
Guess what this is:
Why, it’s a cuttlefish, of course. Duh!
Check out some more Japanese emoticons.
Check out this Japanese game show — women wear hats of meat and test their courage in the face of a hungry lizard!
(Via BoingBoing.)
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CS Monitor:
Japan is stereotyped as the land of the $80 watermelon and the $90 mushroom. Many expats think it easier to rearrange the rings of Saturn than use the word “affordable” and “Tokyo” in the same sentence.
Yet as urban real estate values rise globally, and as prices for Japanese basics like food and clothing drop, […]
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Why, yes they did.
castles
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Japan Times:
SAGA (Kyodo) Kidsbeer, a nonalcoholic brew aimed at children, is catching on with young drinkers and is posting monthly shipments of 75,000 bottles, according to maker Tomomasu Co.
(Via Winkie.org)
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…from the Japanese. I like this one the best: