Everything you ever wanted to know about the birth city of Godzilla, Gundam, all-you-can-eat shabu shabu, panty vending machines, and me.
1 Sep
Last Friday, a well-known criminal lawye...
1 Sep
In this commercial for food company Glico, actress Rie Miyazawa stars as Hello Kitty, an aspiring Broadway actress. So random! (Thanks, Kazu Y!)
1 Sep
My friend Lisa G sent me this funny video for Honda in which Australian hipsters answer the question: How much hipster can you fit into a Honda Jazz? They quote Haruki Murakami and Jack Kerouac while putting beer in the...
31 Aug
Figurine maker Sillof has re-imagined the cast of Star Wars as samurai-era people. Funny. Link (Thanks, Walter!)
28 Aug
For the first time ever, the Japanese justice officials took a few journalists to see its execution chambers. All executions in Japan are done by hanging. Hiroko Tabuchi's NY Times article describes the process: The inmate is handcuffed and blindfolded...