One of the few Japanese rock bands I like is Qomolangma Tomato and I hadn’t even heard of them until last week. That’s when I saw the cover artwork of their latest CD Camouflage , with (pink?) tentacles and slime in equal measure. How could you fail with a band name and cover art like [...]
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By non-Japanese artists that is.
The gaijin’s popular impression of Japan is that of a sprawling urban jungle of neon lights, imposing structures and narrow, winding streets populated by crushing throngs of people (and occasionally beset by gigantic creatures). There are plenty of these themes in the following videos.
Madonna’s cute video shows her cosplaying throughout; Elastica [...]
Tags: beastie boys, bedouin soundclash, elastica, Japan, jay chou, kanye, keepon, madonna, shampoo, sofa rockers, the killers, the police
The Media Arts Festival Executive Committee, composed of people from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, the National Art Center and CG-ARTS Association, has announced the winners of the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival. 2,091 works from 43 countries and regions were evaluated to come up with winners in Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. [...]
Around the time of Golden Week in 1993 in Tokyo, for the first time in my life I had enough money to buy some CDs and a stereo to play them. These are the very first CDs I bought.
The Best of the Velvet Underground. This has the dubious distinction of being the very first CD [...]
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- Crazy custom cars in Japan
- 10 awesome views of Tokyo’s Giant Gundam
- Tokyo’s giant Gundam is geared for battle
- Shohei Otomo’s intense illustration art
- iPhone meets Denso robotic arm, coolness ensues
- Tokyo: even the rest rooms are claustrophobic
- Import anime car overload in Tokyo
- Lunar probe Kaguya’s final shots of the Moon
- Hina: nifty little humanoid robot makes coffee — and a cute face while offering it up to you
- memory, a short film by Junichi Yamamoto
- » Picture of the Day: Japan in ruins | Blog | Ningin: [...] More of these pictures can be seen here. [...]
- Speak Japanese: Terminator factories!! Imagine an earthquake hitting one of these!
- Pearl Fujita: that wiesman car is soo sexy, very sleek, would love to take a ride it that
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Pink Tentacle
- YumeAnimation and music by Shunsuke Saito. + Video
Japan Probe
- Whale meat sold at California sushi restaurantA restaurant in California has been caught serving meat that allegedly came from an endangered species of whale: Two undercover diners requested whale as part of a $600 “chef’s choice” meal. The women were working with producers of the Oscar-winning documentary, “The Cove,” to videotape the meal. Court records say they pocketed a sample, and testing confirmed [...]
What Japan Thinks
- Twittering on TVAs if Japanese television wasn’t mindless enough (there are good shows, but even the good shows are cheap time-fillers), nearly half of the respondents to iShare’s survey into Twitter and television thought the two make a fun mix. Demographics Between the 9th and 15th of February 2010 516 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service [...]
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