A real question this one, although strangely from a Japanese friend of a friend…This is never popular in any country, because it takes away some of your boss’s status. The additional element in Japan is that managers and prospective managers are being judged overwhelmingly on their ability to keep the peace, so any indication like […]
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This is how you learn to wake someone up. From watching others torture one another. On TV. In Japan.
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C.B. Cebulski plays with our heads by posting some samples of a Junko Mizuno Spider-man project. Can this be for real? I guess we’ll find out. (Image swiped from C.B.’s blog—hey, everyone else is doing it!)Danielle Leigh is getting ready to head off to the summer cons at Manga Before Flowers.I don’t think I ever […]
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The “Do It At Home” campaign is continuing on the Tokyo subway. Previously the posters featured a young woman applying her make up on the trains. Now a new series of posters features the same woman in a polyptych talking on her mobile phone watched over by a sinister male figure wearing spectacles.
Is the man a chikan pervert or does he represent the long-suffering, law abiding Tokyo commuter? Why is the disapproving figure a man not a woman? Is the poster sexist or misogynist? I am no psychologist but there are layers of hidden meaning in this poster.
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This is how you expand your stand-up act. From doing jokes about tertris. To doing jokes about UFO Catchers/Crane Games. On TV. In Japan.
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Devil’s Due Publishing has made a deal with Digital Manga to publish a new Vampire Hunter D story in a monthly American-style comics format, according to ICv2. The Devils Due folks say the series, titled Vampire Hunter D: American Wasteland, will have “a noticeably North American feel never before seen in the Vampire Hunter D […]
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I discovered recently that some only do it when you push the button for blind people by mistake, but I don’t think that covers all of them. Any theories?
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I was playing my Kanji Kentei 2 DS game (great review on Naruhodo) the other day and noticed this interesting sentence while being tested on how to write the Kanji 罪 (tsumi).罪を憎んで人を憎まず。(tsumi wo nikunde hito wo nikumazu)It translates to, “hate the sin, not the sinner.”「罪」I love it when proverbs match up.- Harvey
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