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…
This happened way back in 2007, but as the Red and White Song Battle in Japan approaches, but every year about this time I remember this performance. It was probably the most talked about performance of the year, but DJ Ozma got himself a nice ban from the contest for it… you’ll see it toward…
This year there are only two non-Japanese performances scheduled. One is by the Korean five-man group called TVXQ, known in Japan as Tohoshinki, and American enka performer Jerome White, known in Japan as Jero. I wrote about foreigners on the Red and White Song Battle in the past. People are always vocal about the “selected”…
The Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs has begun broadcasting Japanese network tv stations over the internet using P2P (Peer to Peer) technology. As many newzjapan readers know, the Japanese government has gradually been making an effort to be more of a presence on the internet, including uploading useful videos to YouTube. KeyholeTV is another step…
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…
It’s only mildly crazy and a little captivating for the first three minutes, but please enjoy the mild craziness while it lasts for at around the three minute mark the naked guys start a-spinning. The band is called Apogee and they are a group of Japanese college students (at pretty good schools like Sophia University)….
OK, if you don’t live in Japan and watch a lot of tv you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. If you don’t watch a lot of tv but know some Japanese words you can see the humor in Hello Kitty (a cat) being grouped in with Nezumi Sempai (nezumi meaning mouse). For…
Takahisa Masuda, member of the Japanese singing group NEWS came on an afternoon tv show to show off his super speed and strength by doing over one hundred push-ups in one minute. They made a little stage for him. Prepared some timers and click-counters and devoted some time on the program to shine. After you…