Entertainment
Beautiful Japanese commercial for the Touch Wood cell phone by NTT DoCoMo
Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo has an impressive commercial for their Touch Wood SH-08C cell phone. The ad was produced by a Japanese agency Drill, Inc. Watch it here: Read More
Smart crows uses cars to crack nuts in Japan
Believe it or not, crows have a reputation for being one of the most intelligent species on the planet. Here’s an interesting video of a crow using a busy road to crack nuts in Akita, Japan: Read More
Pitagora Suichi
Pitagora Suicchi (ピタゴラスイッチ or simply Pythagora Switch) is a 15 minute educational television program for kids that has been running on Japanese TV since 2002. There is also a 5 minute format called Pitagora Suicchi Mini. Read More
5 beautiful Japan time lapse videos
Movie watching time! Today we are featuring a collection of five pretty awesome Japan time lapse videos that were shared by users on YouTube. Read More
Trailer for ‘Kokurikozaka Kara’, new animated film by Studio Ghibli
Kokuri… Kokuriko… Koku… Kokurikozaka Kara (コクリコ坂から) is a new animated feature film by Studio Ghibli, released in Japan on July 16, 2011. Read More
New movie ‘Rock: Wanko No Shima’ opens in Japan
Rock: Wanko No Shima (ロック ～わんこの島～), a new movie directed by Isamu Nakae, started playing in Japanese cinemas this weekend. The touching drama is based on a true story about a family from the small island of Miyakejima where a massive volcanic eruption in August of 2000 forced all residents… Read More
Japanese band plays European polka music
Previously we’ve been listening to singing parrots, and now something equally fascinating. In Japan, there is a band called Edelweiss Kapelle (エーデルワイスカペレ) that plays oberkrainer/polka music from Austria, Germany and Switzerland, as well as famous songs by the Avsenik brothers in Slovenian language. Read More
Talented Japanese parrot sings My Neighbor Totoro
Fuku-chan is an extremely talented singing cockatiel from Japan who can sing (or rather whistle) some famous melodies like My Neighbor Totoro. The videos were uploaded by asayasufuraion on YouTube. となりのトトロ (My Neighbor Totoro) Read More
Japan – The Strange Country
Recently we came across this excellent video titled Japan – The Strange Country. Kenichi Tanaka, a 23-year old graphic designer from Nagoya, created this motion piece as his final thesis project. The 11-minute tragicomic animation features some interesting facts and stats about Japan while pointing out certain social problems that… Read More
Magnet-like Slopes: amazing optical illusion
Kokichi Sugihara, a researcher at the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences (phew!) has come up with an interesting device to create an awesome optical illusion. There are no special effects or magnets here. Watch: Sugihara has won last year’s Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2010.… Read More
