Category Archives: Japan

Stuff related to Japan, duh!

Watermelon Carving

[inspic=173,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] Watermelon carving. Pretty amazing in a weird kind of way. Tons and tons of photos. Please take a look at what Takashi Itoh from Japan creates with delicious and beautiful watermelon! http://takashi64.hp.infoseek.co.jp/profile.html

Weird ass Nike Commercial

Really, really weird Nike commercial. Just click play, no words will suffice.

Pythagoras Switch

Pythagoras switch, a Japanese science TV show, this episode is on coating teddy bears with hair using static electricity.

Japanese anti-smoking campaign

[inspic=66,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] A page of images from a new Japanese anti-smoking campaign. Some of them almost make sense, but a lot of them (unintentionally?) hilarious. It’s only funnier if you know that the biggest tobbaco manufacturer in Japan is the Japanese government and between that and taxes on cigarettes they make a ton of money on […]

Panda Surprise

The Japanese voice over is (roughly): “Shonyan (mother panda’s name) eats a soybean and bamboo ‘panda ball’ (panda dango) oblivious to the world.” “tyun tyun (baby panda’s name) is dead asleep at her feet, but suddenly…” “Wow that surprised Shonyan!”

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