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!
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….
If you are a fan of Saturday Night Live, the iconic, long-running skit and stand-up comedy show broadcast live from New York with the opening catch phrase… “Live From New York – It’s Saturday Night!”… Then get ready to hear “Live From Tokyo – It’s Saturday Night!” Japanese veteran comedians Akashiya Sanma and Koji Imada…
With a huge height difference on display, 192 cm tall Masaya Nakamura and former Morning Musume member Mari Yaguchi who reaches all of 145 cm on a good day got married. Newzjapan reported the pending nuptials around which were announced around New Year’s. (Mari Yaguchi to Marry Masaya Nakamura). The official date of the marriage…
Although many schools make an effort to keep a school song at least somewhat timely and fun to sing, and there are a lot of good school songs around Japan with the inevitable charismatic brass band to play it as well as they can… Shigakukan High School in Nagoya city, Aichi Prefecture has a great JPop…
Twitter Japan was rumored to be starting up premium accounts for which users would have to pay to read. This has since been described to be a “misunderstanding” by someone at Digital Garage Mobile who did a presentation in Japan talking about subscription services. He laid out a plan which may have been just a…
Have you ever watched Japanese tv and wondered, “How much does THAT guy make?” Well, here’s one example of a guy: This is Yoshio Kojima, one of the big strange character type comedians going around. I think he’ll have more staying power than the others because he’s a smart guy (Waseda University grad) and there’s…
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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.