June, 2008
Real state and land prices have been falling in Japan during the last 15-16 years. In this chart, there is data until 2005. I think this chart is made with average data from urban land prices. After 2005 it continued falling but at the end of 2006 and during 2007 prices started rise (A little [...]
During the last Wonder Festival I met Takahashi-san, an artist who works in a traditional special effects company, they don’t use computers. Here there are some of his Godzilla models that were used in two Japanese B series films.
Shigeo Obara, a Japanese farmer found a clover with 21 leafs last week in his garden. It’s a new Guinness record, it beats his own previous record that was set in 2002 when he found a 18-leaf clover. Obara has been more than 50 years researching and crossbreeding clovers in his garden; his hobby started [...]
Manchukuo, was a puppet state controlled by Japan since 1932 until the end of the war. It was used by the last emperor of China as a refugee, this is explained very well in the movie The Last Emperor. It was also used by Japan to try to invade the rest of China. Last weekend [...]
Found in a Joi’s twitt. Some other examples of japanglish or engrish: There are many of these translations in Japan, China and Asia in general. I think it’s normal to make mistakes and learn from them, I’m making lots of them right now. But for official and public stuff they should do it perfect, I [...]
I found this piece of old newspaper with where Ultraman and some of the main characters from the film Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers are praying in a shrine asking the Gods to make their film a hit. I found it interesting because I wonder if they would let, or if it would be respectful [...]
“Roots” it’s a canned coffee brand that has just started an interesting campaign based on Jump manga characters. What it is interesting is that there are many different ads, there are hundreds of combinations where maybe there is the same character but he-she is saying a different thing. If you are patient enough you can [...]
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