If you have ever wondered what the notorious American-turned-Japanese (but still very much ugly gaijin) Debito Arudo actually looks like and sounds like, wonder no more for here he is, doing what he does best. . . bitching about Japan.
Via Matt at Occidentalism.
Caught the Japan-U.S. women’s soccer game yesterday, which the U.S. won 4-2.
The game was pretty good and both teams should be congratulated for giving their all and fighting it out right up until the final whistle.
Less than stellar, however, was the Japanese coverage both during the game and in the aftermath. As very often happens […]
Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV) has gotten into hot water for inflating the number of plates of food downed by “a celebrity known for her enormous appetite” during an NTV program.
According to NTV, the woman devoured “only” 39 plates of food, though it was reported on the program that she had eaten 48.
“We failed to […]
Sent in by Colin Fletcher, who says:
Eight Year old Japanese guitar playing phenom Yuto Miyazawa was on Conan O’Brien last night and brought the house down with Crossroads by Eric Clapton. He completely butchered the lyrics, which are in some strange English Japanese gibberish, but his shredding is impressive nevertheless.
A ceremony was held today to mark the beginning of construction work of the 610-meter Tokyo Sky Tree, which is scheduled for completion in 2012.
Tokyo Sky Tree will commence operation in the spring of 2012. NHK and the five major commercial broadcasters are currently using the 333-meter-tall Tokyo Tower to transmit both analogue and […]
News about the following TV commercial for a company named EMOBILE has gotten Obama supporters the world over up in arms.
The voice over has the monkey giving in a speech in which he promises that EMOBILE is committed to change. Obama supporters claim that the monkey is a racist reference to Barack Obama.
Word is that the BBC has purchased the rights to broadcast the Japanese TV show Tunnels no Minasan no Okage Deshita, which starts the Tunnels comedy duo of Kinashi Noritake and Ishibashi Takaaki.
The BBC is understood to have produced 11 episodes of the show. But, like other foreign media buyers who have dabbled in Japanese […]
A recent California Supreme Court ruling paved the way for gay marriage in the state. Many news outlets, including the BBC, are covering perhaps the most famous person to take advantage of the opportunity, Japanese-American actor George Takei, best known as Sulu from Star Trek. He obtained a marriage certificate and plans to wed his partner […]
Here is a TV commercial for zero-calorie Kirin Fire canned coffee that features the popular U.S. enka singer Jero. Apparently, the ad is going for a play on similarity between the Japanese pronunciation of the word “zero” and the name Jero.
VBS.tv is running an 8 part interview/tour with former Super Girl contestant, Yang Lei. VBS went to Shanghai, China to meet Yang in order to learn about the phenomenon that was the Super Girl, and ends up learning lot about current day China.
Super Girl is the Chinese equivalent to American Idol or the UK’s […]
Popee is a brilliant series of animations that is longer being made, apparently because of complaints that it might be bad for kids. It is no more violent than Tom & Jerry, but certainly creepier and incomparably esoteric.
For better or worse, my daughter loves these. The same animator also made a series called Stain, well […]
As you can deduce from reading JAPUNDIT and just about any other Japan blog, Japanese TV commercials are pretty popular the world over. . . Except in Japan, where people tend to tune them out.
So what do Japanese advertisers decide to do? Produce a TV commercial about TV commercials, of course.
Public broadcaster NHK has decided that if non-paying viewers won’t answer the door to the collectors, then they’ll get in by other means.
By law, anyone with ‘equipment capable of receiving a television signal’ is required to pay subscription fees to NHK. But with the number of dissenters growing, along with the cost of going […]
SNL did a Japanese version of the popular US television show “The Office”. What do you guys think about this? I thought it started out really funny but then kind of creeped me out towards the end.
View the video here (it’s a flash video at hulu.com)
It’s one thing to idolise someone who happens to be stupid. It’s quite another to idolise someone because they’re stupid.
Japan’s pushy mothers may be missing a trick by keeping her offspring in juku (cram school) until late at night every day, when there is a clear alternative - professional idiocy.
There used to be a […]
Japanese broadcaster TBS has the citizens of Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima Prefecture in an uproar after it reported on a recent game show that it was a massive build-up of human waste that cause the defenders of the Aizuwakamatsu Castle to surrender during a major battles during the 19th century.
Aizuwakamatsu Castle was one of the […]
Here it is.
The news program is in Japanese, though there is a message from Madonna wishing KimuTaku good luck on his new shop and a thank you for her meal 3 years earlier on SMAP x SMAP.
You know who Domyoji is, right?
And here is the behind-the-scenes report in which his outfit is scrutinized. Personally, I don’t think he really needs to drink a zero calorie drink–he’s gotten awfully thin again.
So, what do you think about the yellow suit?
It is a meeting of pretty people. Newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Madonna has “penned” a song, Miles Away, for pretty boy Takuya Kumura’s new drama, CHANGE. It is the first time one of her songs will appear in a drama. We will present a video to you when one is […]
