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!
There was another recent case of professor accepting bribes to give a good review to PhD students’ theses… (if anyone’s interested in the details I can dig them up) This time we have a case of a Chiba University professor threatened saying that she would never be able to graduate without his help. In return…
This video is shown as part of the chair themed NHK children’s show I mentioned in the NHK Cactus Kids Show post. This is an awesome song for kids. It has enough rock n roll to it for parents to enjoy. It’s written and sung by the lead singer of Ulfuls, named Tortoise Matsumoto. He’s…
I previously wrote about the cast of the new Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) movie. Well, the trailer is now available and you can judge for yourself whether to see this one or wait for the inevitable Hollywood remake. This trailer doesn’t show how the story will change with Reiko Takashima as the ship’s doctor,…
I just read some tabloid news saying that Billy Blanks of Billy’s Boot Camp has married a 39 year old Osaka woman named Tomoko Sato who works as an interpreter. A ceremony is scheduled to be held in Osaka in June. The woman is also reported to have given birth to their child in November……
A 48 year old police captain from Chiba Prefecture was arrested in Ibaraki for stealing an “bishojo” anime figurine at a recycle (second hand) shop. The figure was worth about 6,500 yen (about $71 now). Upon his arrest, he commented “Ma ga sashite, yatte shimatta.” Which has the sound of “the devil made me do…
22 Year-Old Japanese Student Believed World’s Youngest to Clone a Mouse(article in Mainichi Daily News) Hey! I don’t want any more young people cloning any more things! It’s bad enough when they have kids and then bleach their hair! What’s next, the guys going to create a bunch of pocket monsters and we’ll have a…
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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.