A new mascot was recently announced to take over the promotional role vacated by the scandal-plagued Tsuyoshi Kusanagi for the impending transition to all-digital broadcast in 2011.
Chidejika (a word-play on “terrestrial digital broadcast” and “deer”), the anemic-looking deer with antennae for antlers immediately spawned hundreds of antenna-horned characters, mostly cute little moe girls and parodies [...]
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10 Feb, 2009
12 fantastic photos of factories in Japan
Posted by: brb In: Japan| Photos| architecture
Lately, I’m having a “factory fetish”, (or “kōjō moe” as they say in Japanese) after browsing through some fascinating pictures of factories in flickr, especially those of sielbleu, hanazuc, totoon and beef.200%. The photographers kindly let me reproduce their photos here.
There is something fascinating about factories at night: the surreal colors, the dazzling lights, smoke [...]
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