Titties even some obligatory Japanese content...
Topic: Media
Here's the R-rated trailer for the film "The Girl Next Door" with titty-bouncy left in and even some obligatory Japanese content...
Via "The Sun Online is the only website in the whole world where you?ll be able to get a sneak preview of the film with all the naughty bits left in."

What shiny balls? Japanese "hikaru dorodango"
Topic: Media
SHINY MUD BALLS:
Kyoto Professor Taps into the Essence of Play
Japan Information Network
At elementary schools, kindergartens, and preschools all across Japan, kids are losing themselves making hikaru dorodango, or balls of mud that shine. Behind this boom is Professor Fumio Kayo of the Kyoto University of Education. Kayo is a psychologist who researches children's play, and he first came across these glistening dorodango
...after trying many times, Kayo found that he just could not make a shiny mud ball. Once, he thought he had succeeded, but after a few days the mud ball lost its luster. Through 200 failed experiments and an analysis using an electron microscope, Kayo was finally able to devise a method of making dorodango...

Sometimes learning English isn't such a great idea
Topic: Japanese life
Super Japanese blog of the day from mr. redleon


mr. redleon wrote: March 04, 2004
Shopping in Yokohama
I went shopping with my friend Keigo in Yokohama because our parents would buy a bag as a graduation present... We went to Takashimaya because we were boring. We can't look for a nice bag.
So we went to the roof amusument center of Takashimaya because we tried carp fishing. We fished a lot of big carp.
We met a fucktard in the mall.--->

Let's WWII!
Topic: Japanese life

Nambu World: Teri's WWII Japanese Handgun Website

Put Your Hands on the Screen....
Topic: Japanese Tech

Put Your Hands on the Screen. And let my spirit come into you. Do you feel it? The Pongi sends me...To show how good your life can be. We don't care if you're a lost soul. Let the Mirth take you and be SAVED!

IBM Japan to sell easy Internet terminal for handicapped, elderly
www.chinaview.cn 2004-03-04 20:30:21
TOKYO, March 4 (Xinhuanet) -- IBM Japan Ltd. said Thursday it has developed a large-screen computer terminal offering easy Internet access for elderly people and the handicapped, including sight-impaired people.
.... installed its Internet-browser software onto a terminal with a 50-inch plasma TV display.... Users need to indicate what part they want to see enlarged and read out by touching the screen...

Japanese magnetically-operated bra
Topic: Japanese Tech
I've sure some use could used the help of this Japanese invention, although bras seem to magically disappear when not "needed" with any of my help.
Bra wars
japantoday > new products / March 4
Women no longer have to worry about dowdy bra hooks creating unsightly lines and bulges beneath their tops. Lingerie marker Gunze has designed a stylish medal-shaped magnet hook for bras. The two magnets are firmly attached and fasten very easily. Pulling the bra from the side or sliding it up and down won't open it.
See: http://www.gunze.co.jp/sabrina/index.html

Tokyo jumper blog
Topic: Japanese life
I've watched four jumpers in Japan do it but this one takes some sort of prize....


Same Planet, Different World Series
Tokyo --11:31am
Picture, if you will, a stuffy room on the 20th floor of the Nakano-Sakaue Sunbright twin south tower. A dull thud echoes up through the steel skeleton of girders clad in glass...

...A French bakery, windows spotted pink and red, full of patrons. They sit, eating their patisseries calmly surveying the carnage. Cultural shock offends the senses. Exactly what are these people thinking as they masticate?

Sumo Hostesses for me
Topic: Media
Here party pix at a "Sumo Hostess" bar.

Refer also to Cal's new hangout where my act will be appreciated.

Sad, sad day for Japan
Godzilla calls it a day...again.
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan - March 3
Godzilla, at various times Japan's scourge and savior but undoubtedly the country's most famous movie monster, will retire aged 50 with a final movie to be final movie to be released later this year, Toho Co. said.
Shooting will begin in May on "Godzilla Final Wars," where the monster's record of merciless destruction of urban centers will be bolstered by the addition of New York, Shanghai and Paris.
...Though hailed as the end for Godzilla, Toho has retired the monster several times in the past and Toyama did not rule out the creature emerging from the depths again some time in the future.

Geisha in Blackface?
Topic: Media

black on both sides

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will present iona rozeal brown "?black on both sides" beginning January 22, 2004. iona brown's paintings are an unprecedented mixture of anonymous courtesans, geisha and other Japanese subjects in blackface....

Kal and Kazy Kabuki in the USA vs Japan
Topic: Media
Nakamura to recreate 17th-century Kabuki theater in N.Y.
Japan's leading Kabuki actor, Nakamura Kankuro V, on Tuesday announced his grand plan to recreate an authentic 17th-century Kabuki theater in the heart of Manhattan for the Lincoln Center Festival opening in July.
"It's like dream come true," Nakamura, 48, who first developed the idea of bringing the temporary Kabuki hut to New York more than two decades ago.... visitors now will enjoy the ambience of a small Japanese village.



Hmmmmmmmm,, I wonder if NY kabuki will have a lot of Kiai-Jutsu screaming for the authentic ambiance?
Before I shipwrecked here in Japan, I'd had already seen a half dozen Kabuki-za Tour performances since none of my Chicago relatives would use their season concert pass to see "cats yowling." The first time I went to Tokyo Kabuki-za, I about crapped in my shorts when a little barcode ojisan sitting next to me see his favorite actor's virtuoso pose bellowed, ?Matte imashita!? (I have been waiting for that!). It's one thing to read about in a book but I felt like I was at a Greek melodrama 3,000 years ago.

Posted by trek/taro at 2:09 PM JST
Updated: Wednesday, March 3, 2004 2:11 PM JST
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