You really have to appreciate how positive this girl is about the snow that recently hit Tokyo. This Japanese high school girl got caught on camera on her way home from cram school.
She slips, loses her shoe, slips again, and still seems to be loving the rare winter wonderland around her.
By now, I assume that the big gang rape incident at prestigious Kyoto University (link goes to news story in Japanese) is international news, and I would not like to go into the details of the incident. However, of interest to students of the media and society in Japan are the reasons that Kyoto University…
Through all the scandals, Mona Yamamoto has remained strong and true to herself. Vilified by some after being photographed going to a love hotel with married baseball player, Tomohiro Nioka in 2008. In some media Yamamoto was treated as a femme fatale while Nioka escaped too much consternation. She refused to take all the blame…
This year’s festival had the biggest turn out because of the poster controversy. The guy who got the bag, having a beard and especially hairy body, seems to have grossed out some people with his body and facial expression. One train station refused to put up the poster (depicting the moment a winner secured one…
Chiaki, a comedian, singer, businesswoman, and mother recently reported the injury on her blog. She said she suffered a cut on her finger that reached down to the bone and needed an operation. The injury is expected to take 5 weeks to heal. After describing her injury she quickly added… but I’m in Tokyo and…
I really am looking for positive news to write about but this kind of randomly violent crime just keeps jumping out at me. If you’ve been to Osaka, you probably know the big Hep Five mall (with the big Ferris Wheel on top). At the North entrance to Hep Five, two guys approached a girl…
I once watched a tv show with “true crime” stories. One of the stories was of a woman who accidentally broke the thin plaster wall between her apartment and her next door neighbor’s. She only broke a little of it, but enough to see how much nicer his apartment was than hers, he had a…
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Unfortunately, it looks like the video has been taken down 🙁
Association of Copyright for Computer Software? I think 20 seconds of a live tv broadcast is fair use. I guess YouTube Japan will just acquiesce to any claim…
I checked the homepage for the ACCS and it seems companies pay them between 2 and 5 thousand dollars a year to police the internet looking for any infringement of copyright. It’s not worth fighting over a 20 second long video of a girl falling in the snow, but I think that companies employing the ACCS are misinforming companies about the big picture… that exposure is a good thing, and for a short piece of video that will probably never be sold or monetized again, that exposure is more than worth it.
I guess the ACCS has to justify the money it charges by listing how many “illegal” videos were taken down, but I hope I find some time this month to look up fair use laws in Japan just in case I decide to upload some short excerpts myself someday.
Here’s a link to the ACCS page in Japanese (the English one is sparse) just in case anyone wants to see what I’m talking about.
http://www2.accsjp.or.jp/
Anyway, I’ll see if I can find the video again because it is cute and funny, and does no harm to the original network that broadcast it.
That being said, I found another version of it and re-embedded it above… this version strangely masks the girls face until the close-up and interview… weird.