In these tiny Japanese houses.
Although I am skinny enough, my 6″ 4′ head would be hurting me thinks.
I don’t think i could put my arms out straight in some of these.

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This set of typographical word blocks can be rearranged to spell the word in Japanese or English.
Reminded me of Parrots 1 to 10 flash.
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This thing looks clunky, utterly vulnerable, and prone to falling over. But it’s still pretty freaking cool! and we’re one step closer to Robotech!
oh, and it shoots sponge bullets.

The Land Walker was made by Masaaki Nagumo, measures 11 feet tall, weighs one ton, and sprays bullets from air guns mounted outside the cockpit.
Link: Gizmodo, [...]

Japan kills whales. . . Fortunately they were unexpectedly totally defeated on this issue.
Conservationists and anti-whaling countries had predicted that the Japanese were likely to win a narrow overall majority of pro-whaling nations at this year’s meeting.
I heard about this on the news the other day and it made me pretty upset. Japan was [...]

I thought this was an interesting entry from the Jlist dudes blog:
When you learn a foreign language, the first thing you usually learn are the “naughty” words. However, people studying Japanese are often surprised to find that most of the bad words they’re used to in English don’t really exist. Popular Japanese insults include baka [...]

I almost forgot my favorite difference between Japan and the U.S., that I have my fingers crossed it doesn’t change: Bathrooms. You can find a clean bathroom anywhere you go in Tokyo(virtually). If it’s not a shiny clean public restroom then there are bathrooms in all the stores and restaurants that don’t require you to [...]

*I collect these frog toy motherfuckers like a madman over there!
Goodbye: ubiquitous, heated toilet seats, with their loving, automated bidet functions.
Hello: to all my fellow Americans who hate me and everybody else around them(well, can seem that way sometimes).
Goodbye: expressionless masses cramming into trains.
Hello: crazy people staring at me, people blabbering on their cells, [...]

Well, we’ze iz goin’ to Japan for about a week. Catch ya on the flip flop*, YO!
*Bob Odenkirk

Japanese salary man robot crawls for his next beer.

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There’s this new Japanese place in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,(As of Dec 3rd 2005) and you might not ever know it’s there unless I tell you - so, I’m telling you:
KatsuJapanese Home Style Cuisine & Sushi1013 Manhattan Ave. (near Green St.)Brooklyn, NY 11222
The trick was, it used to suck really bad when it was under different [...]

Can’t shoot all the bad guys fast enough? You sound like you need this!(watch the movie):
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/wbs/2005/10/31/toretama/tt.html

http://www.jbox.com/japanese_toilet.html

These Japanese comedy clips are really funny - you gotta check em out. They have a show where people can’t laugh or else they get beat with a cane. For real:
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*note: The place that stores these clips moves them around sometimes. Sorry if they don’t link to the proper movie clip. If [...]

Here are a bunch of short Aikido clips if you wanna know how to beat the shit out of people:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Aikido+technique

I actually expected a little bit more from this.Yes the animation and art is great. and I love the percussion track.
But i watched this waiting for something to happen.
But it’s still worth the 1 minute to view:tokyoplastic v.2

Tohoku: Hitchhiking through Japans Deep North
This is a 7-minute documentary that spans the entire trip. It has a quite different feel than the travelogue and stands on it’s own, having screened in several film festivals.
http://www.professorbright.com/tohoku/movie.html

http://www.robpongi.com/pages/comboJTVHIGHLIGHTS.html
No wonder they wanted to close off entry to Japan from westerners, at one point… maybe they should have kept that rule(U.S. threatened to barrage Tokyo with cannon fire):
http://robpongi.com/pages/comboPERSONALSOUT.html
This must be the guy who collected these clips(and starred in that last one). This one is kind of funny. Heard of Engrish?:
http://www.robpongi.com/pages/comboCONNATUREHI.html
In this one you can [...]

http://www.tucky7.com/3works/skdx.shtml

For those of you who didn’t download the torrent file - this kind person has posted several download-able “Hard Gay” movie clips of this most recent web viral movie, plus extra, for you to analyze and decrypt. I’m not sure if I understand what’s going on so I put this into the bizarre Japanese category [...]