Category Archives: Vaguely Japan-related

Stuff that is kinda sorts (but not usually directly) related to Japan

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!”

Japanese Yurei Gallery

[inspic=58,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] Image gallery of photos from the Yurei-ga gallery at Zenshoan temple in Tokyo. “Yurei” is Japanese for “ghost”, “apparition” or “spirit”. The Yurei-ga Gallery is a private collection of Edo-period (1603 to 1867) scrolls with images of a variety of Japanese ghosts which range from sad, haunted spirits, to ghastly, monstrous demons. Seemed appropriate […]

Okami PS2 Game

[inspic=51,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] This is a game called O-kami for the playstation 2. The name of the game is a play on words because in Japanese Kami can refer to a wolf or a god, and the main character of this game is a wolf-god. Anyway, the game is absolutely beautiful. It’s done in an Ink and […]

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 […]

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