Category: Japanese Society/Culture
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)
Tommy Lee Jones FTW
The best addition to a highball on a hot summer’s day is half a lime squeezed in the glass.
Japanese Jedi
This video just keeps getting better and better. Pink wakizashi!
(via my pal Azumi on FB)
swept away
Funny how a story’s coverage by US media shrinks in direct relation to lack of bipolar celebrities.
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.
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The Sendai webcam in Izumi-ku is back up again.
Sendai before and after
Via ABC Australia: Japan Earthquake: before and after
By the way, to all of the assholes mentioning Pearl Harbor karma, only 8.9 disappointment, and DDOSing the person finder app, FUCK YOU.
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UPDATE:
More shots from Google Earth: Before And After Photos Of the Japanese Earthquake
Looking for Yoichi Enomoto, Sachiko Enomoto
We are looking for my grandmother’s cousins, Yoichi Enomoto and Sachiko Enomoto. They live here, about seven kilometers from the coast of Sendai, one of the hardest hit areas. Their eldest son, Yoshi, lives in Tokyo. We do not know where any of them are.
This is a photo of Yoichi and Sachiko, they are both in their nineties:
The only webcam feed in their area still up as of yesterday is down today: Izumi-ku Sendai webcam
That’s about a mile from their neighborhood.
Their Romanized address is:
Miyagi-ken Sendai-shi Taihaku-ku Yagiyama Yayoi-cho
Postal code: 982-0833