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Genki Sudo’s well-dressed bandmates visit Yokohama’s Chinatown to pretend they’re jiangshi, eat dumplings and noodles, have their fortunes told and do their robot dance in front of a pagoda.
Genki Sudo’s well-dressed bandmates visit Yokohama’s Chinatown to pretend they’re jiangshi, eat dumplings and noodles, have their fortunes told and do their robot dance in front of a pagoda.
A weird Japanese video in which they demonstrate how to turn vegetables into juice by setting off underwater explosions. The cool part is that the juice remains inside the veggies, as their innards are pulverized by the shockwave.
Motorhead teases its “Japan Tuned” issue with a video of the HKS GT-R R35 GT1000 and the legendary HKS R32 Group-A tearing up the Gunsai touge. Get the magazine to access bonus raw in-car footage. Score by Tatreal.
Like the Yoshida Brothers, instrumental duet 輝&輝 (Ki&Ki/KiKi) use the Tsugaru-shamisen to create modern music, in a style that we can only call virtuoso country rock. See more of them on NakTKY’s YouTube channel.
The movie adaptation of Neko Zamurai, a Japanese comedy show about a poor ronin who ends up taking care of the cat that he was asked to assassinate. The theme song is I’m so Great! by the Magokoro Brothers.
For Brandon Li, Tokyo “saturates the senses.” He made this video to preserve that feeling and present the city’s many facets: the serene and the boisterous, the old and the new, the holy and the hentai. Plus the club with robot boxing.
The Tentetsutou (Sword of Heaven) is a katana forged by Yoshindo Yoshiwara from a fragment of Gibeon, an iron alloy meteorite that was found in Namibia in 1838. It’s currently on display at the Skytree tower in Tokyo, Japan.
Japanese culture channel Kawaii Kakkoii Sugoi shows off a frustrating game called Daisharin Tetsubou-kun, in which the objective is to spin a gymnast off of his bar and stick the landing. We’re guessing Takara Tomy was inspired by this robot.
Watch an expert take on the exact opposite of the generous arcade game. Sega’s MaiMai is a rhythm arcade game with eight buttons and a touchscreen. It’s like Dance Dance Revolution but for hands.
A short documentary about two of the many workers in Japan who live in Internet cafes, because they can’t afford to rent an actual apartment. Part of Shiho Fukada’s three-part documentary Japan’s Disposable Workers.
This commercial for Seiha English Academy, an English conversation school in Japan, claims that the school makes children so good at English you’ll need to call an exorcist. English speaking level: Japanese.
After frying shrimp at lightning speed, NTT DoCoMo once again resorts to a food-based analogy to promote its 4G network. This time they made ground beef dumpling in under three seconds. The music is the secret ingredient here.
Perhaps the most ridiculous invention to hit the running scene ever, the Tomatan is a robot that athletes can strap to themselves so they can eat tomatoes while distance running. A silly promo gimmick for Japanese food company Kagome.
So it’s time to dig out from the latest snownami. You could shovel by hand, or you could send off to Japan for Yuki-Taro, a robot that not only can plow snow, but that turns the white stuff into compact bricks of ice to keep things tidy.
An army of sexy and flexible Japanese maids cooking breakfast for a rich old man isn’t exactly the most progressive of ideas, but that doesn’t make this commercial for non-stick cookware any less awesome.
Motorhead Magazine assembled cars and drivers from various motorsports on the Mazda Turnpike in Hakone, Japan, where drifters and enthusiasts hone their craft. Masato Kawabata and his Nissan GT-R paid homage pretty damn well.
“Strategy only works when it is accompanied by the technology it requires.” Nifty Corporation’s documentary on Hebocon, a hilarious robot wrestling tournament where contestants know nothing about building robots.
Designed by architect Keiichi Kiriyama of Airhouse, this incredible home in Jiyugaoka, Japan is almost entirely constructed from concrete – from the walls to the floors to the countertops and ceilings.
Shrimp doesn’t really take that long to cook, but this commercial for Japanese mobile carrier Docomo shows how you can fry shrimp in less than three seconds – with the right equipment – and the appropriate death metal track.
Citizens rode Japan’s upcoming magnetic levitation trains in a public test run. The train went up to 311mph (500kph), over 100mph faster than the famous Shinkansen or bullet train line. Original video here.
(NSFW: Language) YouTuber maxmoefoetwo found the arcade equivalent of Xíng háishì bùxíng. This Japanese medal game has so many crazy mechanics and parts, and it doles out prizes so epic you’d wonder if the machine was broken.
Red Bull Music talks to some of the best Japanese composers, game designers and the musicians they influenced in the amazing miniseries Diggin’ in the Carts. A must watch for video game and music fans. English captions available.
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