On Friday, Takeshi Kitano hosted a TV show focusing on how young men in Japan are apparently not as manly as previous generations. The show spent a lot of time discussing the traits of Japan’s ...
The town of Taiji began its dolphin hunt yesterday. Taiji is now infamous in America and Australia because of “The Cove,” a documentary created by animal rights activists who feel its dol...
While checking Google News a few moments ago, I discovered some shocking news: the Taiji dolphin hunt has been halted. According to the headlines, “The Cove,” a documentary that highligh...
The guys at Daily Yoji have created this amusing spoof of McDonald’s Japan’s Mr. James ads:
I couldn’t help but think about how this commercial leaves McDonald’s WIDE OPEN to ...
Hugh Jackman was in Japan this week to promote the upcoming theatrical release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine*. As part of his promotional activities, he went on NTV’s “Sukkiri” mornin...
In a news segment yesterday morning about the Okinawa military base issue, Fuji TV included a summary of some of the complaints Japanese have about American troops enjoying special privileges in Japan...
A day after NTV aired its show about taking Hugh Jackman to Tsukiji so he could enjoy sushi, Fuji TV’s “Mezamashi TV” morning show aired its own Hugh Jackman interview segment. They...
The Ueno Royal Museum is currently hosting an exhibition of Chinese government-owned Tibetan artifacts, and “Free Tibet” activists are not happy about it. Here’s a video from a prot...
A TV Asahi news piece from 2006 about Eddie, an American in Tokyo who dreams of becoming a lawyer in Japan and living in an expensive apartment in the Roppongi Hills complex:
Eddie was living in an o...
A Japanese TV program visits the island of Tsushima to investigate the frictions between Korean tourists and locals. At one restaurant, they found a sign banning the entry of Korean customers. Here...
