This design was only released on the Japanese language Google homepage but a lot of thought was put into it. The young 20 year old coming of age ceremony participant in a traditional kimono is prominently featured, but there is also the subtle adjustment of the Os in google to look like the number 20!
I’m not sure if you can find better deal, but this one sounds like a good, no hassle, cheap way to take a trip to Japan. I originally saw this on a blog called Ryoko Japan. Here is a link to the deal offered through JTB. I think you can find a way to get…
In an interview with Nikkei Business Online, Yahoo President Masahiro Inoue said that Google is not so great, and implied that Yahoo Japan has done great things while staying in the law. This comment may be a reference to Streetview which is one of Google’s most popular products in Japan, and for which Yahoo Japan…
If you are in Japan, and one of your ulterior motives is to take pictures of the scenery and hopefully capture some uniquely Japanese moments, Coming of Age Day is a great day to be in Japan. Coming of Age Day, called Seijin no Hi in Japanese, is the day that newly turned twenty-year olds…
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,…
In a recent interview, the owner of Coco Ichibanya Curry was asked about the success of his shop in light of the closing of all Wendy’s franchises in Japan. First I’ll introduce Coco Ichibanya to those of you who are unfamiliar, or who live in Japan but have never ventured inside. Some of them look…
Susan Boyle appeared on the annual Red and White Song Battle providing SMAP’s Takuya Kimura a chance to whip out some of the English language skills he and his wife, Shizuka Kudo have been working on. I provide the link below for as long as it lasts on YouTube so you can see it go…
Things to keep in mind about the list are: Since they are things that Japanese girls want their boyfriends to STOP doing, it means that they are things a lot of Japanese guys with girlfriends do… I’m just sayin’. If you live in Japan, you probably see this kind of thing all the time. It…
UPDATE: No surprise here that the Hatoyama Twitter Acct is a fake. Just one of those things campy enough that you wish they were true. I’ll leave the link and my initial article as it was. OK, I’m going to say first of all that it’s possible this is a fake account, but all I’ve…
Rio Hirai is an announcer with Fuji TV who has appeared in some dramas, tv shows, and done some modeling. She is also an announcer who seems to have a penchant for wearing sexy clothes when interviewing young budding sports superstars. Yusei Kikuchi is a very young, promising pitcher who was recently drafted by the…
Google Japan has entered another unexpected market with the release of a free Japanese input software. Reviews on the net hail it as a very natural and easy to use system posing a huge threat to the standard issue ATOK, Anthy, WinAnthy, and other input systems. Google’s Japanese input can be used with Windows XP…
This is another one of those interesting Google top ten lists. This one asks Japanese people what their friends brag about that annoys them the most. I don’t think the list is very unique to Japan, although it does give a little insight into what people in Japan tend to take pride in. If you…