This is an awesome video. Basically it’s a rap video about the top news stories of 2008.
You can consider it a little pop quiz of your Japanese news, pop culture, and current events knowledge. How many of the images or stories in this do you remember?
Enjoy this trip in the time machine courtesy of Hibiki from Knockout Records.
If there are any references you don’t get, feel free to ask in the comments!
Anyway, enjoy!
I guess the important thing to keep in mind is that this poll was completed on the internet by a company called COBS. COBS is a data collection agency with members who answer polls and post reviews in return for points. This also explains the number one answer… Here are the result of the poll…
A new Kids show called “Mitsuketa” or “I found it” has started up on NHK. For some reason, the show’s main theme is… CHAIRS! There are skits of interactions between a real live girl, a giant talking cactus, and a chair. The cactus plays kind of a fatherly role, settling little arguments between the little…
The Japanese media tried to make a big story bigger this weekend by complaining about the way Maki Goto wore her hair to her mother’s funeral. Her mother died this week in a fall from her apartment balcony in a suspected suicide. Maki Goto showed up with her hair brown. The media responded with outrage….
It seems that people are really interested in Billy Blanks and his move to Japan so I thought I’d follow up on my previous story about Billy and Tomoko Blanks. Billy Blanks and Tomoko Blanks had a baby daughter born at Iwasa Ladies Clinic in November of 2008. A photo of the baby, named Angelica,…
Many Japanese news media outlets are reporting that Ai Kago (age 23), formerly of Morning Musume attempted to commit suicide on September 11th. She was found in her apartment in Roppongi in Tokyo by a member of her talent agency. The agency member then immediately called 119 (the equivalent in Japan to 911) for an…
Here are the winners of the 2009 YouTube Japan Video Awards. There are 7 categories, and the winning videos can be found below. In the MUSIC Category: This is a very cool video, definitely worth watching and definitely deserving of the award. An amazing amount of planning and preparation must have gone into this. SOUR…
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Sounds crazy but I can’t see at work. Can I expect to see some rapping about the Akihabara stabbings and the boy who went to the koban with his mother’s head in a sports bag?
No, nothing about that stabbing, or the other one, or the kid that killed his parents with an axe… or the other one.
Some good pop culture stuff though, the gyoza thing, the unagi thing, the industrial (to be made into glue) rice knowingly sold as rice for consumption. There is the great Fukuda line “anata to wa chigaundesu”, some of the character comedians that fell off the face of the earth… and other stories that were big here.