Japanese Popular Pop Culture, Music, Fashions, Art, Foods, etc!
A few articles back I wrote about miniature cooking shows; here is another miniature artist, Tomo Tanaka. Tanaka makes a wide variety of handmade miniature products. He started making miniatures in 2001. For Tomo’s...
SEGA released the world’s first print machine for nail art. They set up the new NailPri machine at the Ikebukuro GIGO location for a test run. You can choose your favourite design from over...
What is 5572320(go go nana ni san ni rei)? It is the name of an all female band which consists of eight Junior High School students. There are five guitarists and three drummers. Their...
Shogi Denou Sen is a Shogi (Japanese Chess) competition between professional Shogi players and computer Shogi software. This competition, human vs. machine, started in 2012. Each professional Shogi player competes against a different Shogi...
Haagen Dazs just released a new series “Hanamochi” on the 24th of February. The interesting thing about Hanamochi is that it has “Mochi” (sticky mochi rice cake) in the ice-cream! They created two flavours,...
On Youtube, you can find numerous cooking shows. One cooking show channel in particular is becoming popular. It is a miniature cooking show! All of the equipment used by this Youtuber is very small,...
Onigiri (Rice Ball) is a popular food in Japan. You can find many kinds of Onigiri such as: Umeboshi(Pickled plum), Shake(Grilled Salmon), Katsuobushi(Dried bonito), Konbu(Sea Weed) just to name a few. Onigiri is quite...
Lately, rhythmic comedic acts are popular; I wrote about another comedic duo, Kumamushi “Attakain dakara”. “Lassen Gorelai” is a different rhythmic comedic act by the duo group, 8.6 sec Bazooka. It is especially gaining...
Vine (an app to create a 6 second clip) is popular amongst teenagers in Japan. When you were at school, I bet you did something fun with your classmates. A vine clip, which a...
A Commemorative Suica card was released for Tokyo station’s centennial celebration. Suica is a rechargeable fare card for trains in the Tokyo area. The Suica card also works when buying things from vending machines,...
