Asahi TV news uses computer graphics to add some flavor to its coverage of the bear that attacked and mauled 9 people at a highway rest stop on Saturday:
It looks like it might have been created by t...
A really impressive work of shadow puppetry from some Japanese performers:
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An interesting video report looking at a sewage treatment plant in Tokyo, hosted by Stuart, the Australian who was yelling about whales in the TV debate I posted about yesterday:
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The Beat Takeshi “World Summit” program (seen in this previous post) asks its Australian panel members to explain why they don’t like whaling (partially subtitled in English):
A ver...
A painful-looking video clip from Japanese TV showing a Malaysian kung-fu master breaking coconuts with his finger:
Maybe he should have tried it with pre-cut coconuts instead?
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An interesting discovery I made yesterday while sampling the many Ken Shimura comedy clips available on YouTube:
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Two amusing clips of Japanese kids riding roller coasters:
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A special investigation of the teenage prostitution in Japan (”compensated dating”), from a Japanese TV news program:
The narrator introduces information about a “new” type o...
Two clips of a Fuji TV reporter asking random New Yorkers to give their opinion on Japan’s new Prime Minister:
As usual with these kind of things, the people being asked don’t really know...
A pretty strange news story:
Police arrested Hiroshi Inaba, a 42-year-old man of no fixed address and a member of a gang connected to the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza group, on suspicion of theft.
Inaba is...
