Category Archives: Japan

Stuff related to Japan, duh!

Funny Japanese TV Commercial

Still busy, but I need to either take a break or go absolutely insane from nearly a week straight of translating =P Rant about video game translation coming soon =P Funny Japanese commercial for Ransael, which is a Japanized French/German term for these horrible bright red/black leather backpacks that elementary school kids here use. They […]

How much fish would a cat… nevermind

And my last post for the day I think, I present cats carrying fish. This is from a TV show here called Trivia no Izumi (fount of trivia), where they go through and introduce weird trivia and occasionally create their own. This is one of the latter. In this clip they set out to determine […]

Drilling game

[inspic=15,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb]http://www.ossya.com/fup/show/28.php Fun little drill game. The game and website are in Japanese but I put a simple (extremely) translation in the image above. Basically you click retry (no need the first time) and then drag the mouse across the rectangle at the top of the screen, you can drag from left to right or right […]

Hornet and Bumblebee Siege!

Sort of a bug theme here of late. Giant Japanese wasps, which have a venom that can dissolve human tissue, raid a colony of imported european honey bees and 30 of the wasps slaughter 30,000 of the bees in under 3 hours, then “gorge themselves on honey and cart off bee larvae to feed their […]

Fun little Web game

Kind of power rangers-esque, but still fun. The site and game are completely in Japanese but that shouldn’t stop anyone. The first (top) box in the menu is start, second is stage select, third key settings, fourth game settings and last is instructions (which are also in Japanese). Arrow keys to move, “Z” to attack, […]

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