Of course you might ask, “What the hell is Japanese ‘can coffee’?”
Crack-in-a-Can, Japanese ‘can coffee’ is the secret of Japan’s success and without it this highly caffeinated country would never function before noon. Ubiquitous in Japan, a large number of companies offer a huge variety types of cans being sold in vending machines both as heated cans in the autumn and winter, and cold cans in the warm months. See Wikipedia for more information.
According to the Mainichi News, Nestle Japan is putting out a new killer can coffee, Golgo 13. The can coffee will be for sale starting May 15 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Golgo 13, Japan’s longest-running manga. Wiki Golgo 13 is sort of the James Bond of Japan—a professional assassin in the beloved manga as well as two live-action feature films, two animated films and a television series. Learn more about Golgo 13 [ゴルゴ13] in Wikipedia and you can view the video of the open sequence below.
Calling itself a “new documentary exploring contemporary Japanese pop-culture,” here’s TOKYO-LOGY– a bit of fluff about the obvious Tokyo from BoingBoing. Remember, the Japanese-engrish words, “trendy”, “dandy”, “costume/sex/maid-play”, etc. are considered complimentary—to worn like this week’s novelty T-shirt, not a lifestyle.
Rather than ersatz “TOKYO-LOGY,” our 3Yen correspondent, “Den4,” sagely recommends: “Then again, you can always go for overkill with the hell-o kitty laptop.”
Right now it’s “Golden Week” in Japan and I’m dogging it since all the big companies and factories are closed from April 26th to May 7th (see Wikipedia). And what better way to dog it during Japanese Golden Week than with these new 1/25 ounce commemorative gold coins designed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Snoopy lost in translation in Japan. Today the Japanese commodity house, Taisei Coins Corporation, is unveiling their new, “The 40th Anniversary of Snoopy in Japan” commemorative coin featuring coins with Snoopy of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Actually, these Snoopys are legal tender of the Cook Islands and were made by the Perth Mint that produces all sorts of weirdo commemorative coins, gold bullion and medallions. These are almost as much fun as the Silver and gold Hello Kitty euros I previous reported about.
I’m feeling a little guilty for not posting anything all day, but hey, hey, it’s Friday night in Tokyo…
IchigoPartygirl, GomiGirl, and many Farkqued Gaijin are gathering at the Araku bar deep in the bowels of Golden-Gai Kabukicho–sort of the model for “Blade Runner”—Shinjunku’s sleeze district.
Anyway, since you are not enjoying the games of Kabukicho’s sleaze, enjoy this CG bit of Japanese baseball game fun.
Weather bureau makes heavy metal song to plug earthquake early warning system Mainichi News - April 16, 2008, SENDAI — The Sendai District Meteorological Observatory has produced a heavy metal song to promote a recently developed earthquake early warning system...more...
Singing the catchy, headbanging “Earthquake Early Warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho” *, here’s my special extended remix of the so-called “Heavy Metal” version of the public service announcement. boomp3.com
Watch and listen to 15-second “Earthquake Early Warning” public service announcement in the WMV format provided by the official Sendai Meteorological Observatory in either of the two following styles:
—”Heavy Metal” or
—”Piano” (with squeaky bimbo chorus)
And here’s an alternative way to download and listen to my special remix of the “Heavy Metal” verision of the earthquake early warning” jingle, “Kinkyu Jishin Sokuho.”.
The hinky Japanese movie, Exte: Hair Extensions (IMDB)is the ultimate bad hair day with horror-hair that carries grudges and starts attacking.
In the film Exte[エクステ], the amazing Chiaki Kuriyama (KILL BILL’s Gogo Yubari) is an apprentice hair stylist whose clients are found dead, inexplicably and very violently murdered by their own hair. Yep, it is as dumb as it sounds in this parody-sometimes-ernest cult film –official website: www.exte-movie.jp/
I ‘m going to burn for posting three randy topics in a row, but if you hurry before the YouTube censors ban this, check out the “Invisible Man” Japanese style.
“Happyhorizon san, the author/poster of this video says in Japanese that the video, “…is only slightly naughty, such a mischief seems to be OK.” (The video came from a recent variety show on Japanese TV.) Click to view.
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