Ken Tanaka recently came back to the motherland for a visit, and he discovered the joys of Tokyo Teleportation. Ken also got a YouTube gathering going while he was here. I attended and won a YouTube ...

Some video from a national competition for high school fashion design clubs (”the Koshien of fashion”): 241 schools competed, and 40 made it into the final round. In the video clip we ca...

The TV Tokyo program that introduced the foreigner learning traditional Japanese manliness from an ouendan also contained a brief segment on how Japanese men sit down at toilets to urinate instead of ...

Throughout Japanese history there have been many recorded encounters with tsuchinoko, the snake-like animal shown in the above illustration. However, nobody has been able to actually catch one dead o...

TV Tokyo’s “Champions” recently held a competition to see which Michael Jackson mega fan could perform the fastest 30-meter moonwalk (English captions have been added to explain what...

A strange fellow has appeared in my village recently.  What the hell is he doing? A closer look reveals that this is not a “fellow” at all, but rather a mannequin.  Apparently the i...

A couple clips of “Itte Q” regulars Daisuke Miyagawa and Imoto competing in an office chair race in Switzerland: — Training The Big Race — Akihabara News – Gadgetry ...

A mildly disturbing Japanese commercial for Zespri kiwifruit: — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe) Kirainet.com ̵...

A clip from NTV’s “Super Surprise” featuring a man who has trimmed his hair to look exactly like a hat: The narrator introduces him as “Danny, a man who has never taken off hi...

A strange commercial for Jewel Cafe, a business that buys used jewelry: The other commercials in the retro jewelry detective series can be viewed on their website. — Akihabara News – Ga...