July, 2007
One of the first things you notice when you arrive to Japan (Or any other Asian country) is that there are lots of people crouching on the streets. For me, and most of my European friends it’s very difficult to squat during more than one minute, but Asian people seem to have an special ability. [...]
Watch next video where I’m just showing you the floor of some Tokyo metro stations: You can even see the people’s reflection while they walk, I’m sure many of us would like to have our home’s floor as clean as Tokyo’s metro floor. The funniest part is to see the cleaning employees cleaning something that [...]
Shigeru Mizuki is one of the most famous and important mangakas ever, but it seems he is totally unknown outside Japan. I love the manga called Kappa no Sanpei from Shigeru, but his most well-known masterpiece is Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro. His manga is usually “horror manga”, more concretely “yokai manga” (Yokai means phantoms, [...]
Many people sent me emails with a link to this video, thinking it is Japanese: Is not Japanese, it’s Korean, more concretely it’s a video showing the training new Samsung employees have to go through. It seems Korean people are pretty good with this stuff called “Mass Games” (Youtube search with lots of similar videos. [...]
After the idol DVD release experience where I only had one minute to take pictures the next step was a full idol photo session I went this weekend. Once again, Danny easily convinced me to go, this time the name of the girl was Miri Hanai (花井美理). I didn’t know her, but it seems she [...]
“Kancho” is a procedure in which you attack your victim from behind putting together both of your hands in a “kancho position” (see the pictures), the purpose is to hit your “rival’s” ass with your index fingers. When I first listened about it, I was very skeptical, I thought the guys who explained it to [...]
“Instant noodles” are pretty common in Asia and USA but they are pretty unknown in Europe, don’t know why. “Instant noodles” where invented by Momofuku Ando, the founder of Nissin, the biggest instant noodles producer in the world. “Instant noodles” are not a very healthy food, but what the heck! They are really useful when [...]
