Japanese Society/Culture – Page 5 – C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

JAva Curry Spicy Blend, Cup Noodle Gohan, Yebisu, and Premium Malts — Jsva Curry Spicy Blend, Cup Noodle Gohan, Yebisu, and Premium Malts

These will mostly, if not all, be consumed over the New Years break. Thank you, Dai!

Treasures from Japan – Part 1

I hereby deem this the Ultimate Japanese New Years Variety Pack! From top left, clockwise: oshiruko (sweet red bean soup), shoga-yu (hot ginger drink), amazake (sweet sake w/curds), matsutake soup packets (awesome with instant noodles), and Aquarius drink powder (for the following day’s hangover). Thanks, Taro!

I am looking into getting my hands on equipment to pound our own mochi with from next year.

kakebashi

shazai

You have no idea how close I am to showing this with a straight face to my ultra-serious Japanese class for university teachers tomorrow.

Toyota reviving Nobunaga (Toyota ReBorn), plus killer killer whales

Linkdump follows:

Any modern car ad using a 1960’s S40 Crown is worth watching in my opinion, but the CM being referred to (and uploaded to Youtube just 3 hours ago) is just indecipherable. The making of video isn’t much help, either.

Killer whales attack and eat sharks: In itself, not news but apparently orcas screw with sharks the way that dolphins screw with bait balls, using their cunning mammalian brains

This Chinese Village Is So Rich It Built A Fake Great Wall And Arc De Triomphe: I’m not sure those are signs of wealth by themselves — the small Japanese island I used to live on had miniature versions of those and several other famous structures at their aging amusement park, and the last I heard pretty much every last notable business went to shit (probably entirely coincidental with my leaving, but sorry to all my friends there just in case).

(At least one of the links above are from somebody, probably Mark, on Google+, but I can’t find it now)