Japanese Society/Culture
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Treasures from Japan – Part 2
These will mostly, if not all, be consumed over the New Years break. Thank you, Dai!
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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.
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kakebashi
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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.
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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…
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Tommy Lee Jones FTW
The best addition to a highball on a hot summer’s day is half a lime squeezed in the glass.
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Japanese Jedi
This video just keeps getting better and better. Pink wakizashi! (via my pal Azumi on FB)
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One man’s folly…
How one Japanese village defied the tsunami (via)
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swept away
Funny how a story’s coverage by US media shrinks in direct relation to lack of bipolar celebrities.
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The Enomotos are Safe
Our relatives have apparently been found. There are no details yet, but this is good news. Thanks to everyone who helped out. — The Sendai webcam in Izumi-ku is back up again.
