Japan in 120 seconds
Den4, the 3Yen’s correspondent-at-large, points us to this seminal video of eburisingu abouto Nippon (everything about Japan).
It’s a gr-r-reat video but it failed capture the two most typical features of Japan:
1) CONCRETE EVERYTHING
. . . ☣ Ill Machine Tokyo (3Yen / 2008-01-22 )
. . . ☢ Japan’s nat’l tree–concrete utility pole (3Yen / 2011-01-14)
2) ZOMBIE SALARYMEN
. . . • Salarymen are most deprived in the world (3Yen / 2005-03-09)
. . . • Salarymen slog (3Yen / 2008-05-18)
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August 17th, 2012 at 12:43 am
I really want to live in Japan—And for more than two minutes!
How come the Japanese have all the fun? Meh.
August 17th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Don’t look now, but I think the clip at 1:13 is of K-Pop.
August 17th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Dang, I knew it. It was too good to be J-Pop. （￣ー￣）
That Youtube video mistaking K-Pop for J-Pop is sort of forgivable since the Japanese version of Gee, Gee, Gee by the Girls’ Generation was heavily promoted in Japan with adorably cute Korean-accented Japanese.
August 17th, 2012 at 10:56 am
K-Pop is just an improved copy of J-Pop, which is a crap copy of crappy American pop.
August 17th, 2012 at 11:12 am
Yes but Girls’ Generation (Wiki) total domination of J-Pop with their mega-kawaii/cute, which is the whole point, ain’t it.
At this rate, Japan should just wither up and shrink away into oblivion (like Samsung vs Japan’s pathetic Galapagos keitai).
兎角亀毛 / とにかく/ tonikaku /anyway, here are the engrish subtitles to Gee, Gee, Gee.
August 17th, 2012 at 11:35 am
Yeah, but what the flying kimchi is a “Gee, Gee, Gee”?
http://minsarang.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/news-the-meaning-behind-snsd%E2%80%99s-gee-interview-with-newsen/