Kanazawa Station is the world's most beautiful station

Travel + Leisure released "World's Most Beautiful Train Stations" at its website. It is introducing 14 stations in the world as the world's most beautiful station, and Kanazawa Station in Kanazawa, Japan is one of them.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-beautiful-train-stations/7

Autumn morning in Kyoto 2011

Hatsune Miku Train in Sapporo

Yuki Miku (雪ミク, Snow Miku) train is running in Sapporo, Hokkaido, from December 19th 2011 to March 30th 2012.

sourse: http://www.j-cast.com/mono/2011/12/19116863.html

photo: http://twitpic.com/7uqqku/full

Japanese Girls Free Hugs in Taiwan

Two Japanese girls are giving free hugs in Taiwan in order to saying thanks to Taiwan for the earth quake aid. Two continues free hugs until they come back to Japan on December 24th.

Hatsune Miku in Google Chrome Commercial Video

Hatsune Miku - Wikipedia

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク) is a singing synthesizer application with a female persona, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizing technology. The name of the character comes from a fusion of the Japanese for first (初 hatsu), sound (音 ne) and future (Miku (ミク) sounds like a nanori reading of future, 未来, normally read as "mirai"), referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series". She was the second Vocaloid to be sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress, Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as a projection.

Live-action "Rurouni Kenshin" First Trailer

The first trailer for live-action "Rurouni Kenshin" was released. However, there are negative, "dislike" comments on the youtube page. How do you think about this trailer?

"Is my daughter normal?"

There is an interesting question at Yahoo! Answers.

Yahoo! Answers "Is my daughter normal?"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApSQ22_a1ryxWumTtoRuA8EjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20070202195800AAYkGBq

A mother, whose daughter is a fan of Japanese Anime and Manga and is not interested boys, is asking "is my daughter normal?"

What is your answer?

Japanese Kid's Meal in a Restaurant

attention: the volume is a little bit too big

An adult man is eating kid's meal dish, "Okosama Lunch" in a Japanese restaurant. Actually, only kids can order that.

Japan's amazing lunchboxes

BBC reported about Kyaraben lunchbox in Japan.

BBC News Magazine, Close-up: Japan's amazing lunchboxes

Want-it-reunited Band Ranking

NTT Docomo made vote for which band people want it to be reunited.
Vote period: 10/17/2011-11/04/2011
Total vote: 34695 votes

No. 13 Pizzicato Five




No. 12 Moon Child




No. 11 REBECCA

Gunpla Builders World Cup 2011

Gunpla Builders World Cup 2011 is a world competition for building Gundam Plastic Toy Model, and it is going to be held at Hong Kong on December 25th 2011. National competition in Japan was held November 6th. Two course was held, "open course," which is for over-15-year-old people and "junior course", which is for under-15-year-old people. In "junior course," 8 years old girl won the championship. This is her work.

http://bandai-hobby.net/GBWC_JAPAN/

"Balse" scored the new world record of tweets

The Castle In The Sky was on air in Japan on December 9th, 2011. People who was watching it tweeted the spell, "Balse" at the same time when the main character said. Then the "Balse" scored the new world record of tweets, and it was 14594 tweets in one second according to tweet counter.

source: http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/6106259/


Castle in the Sky

FAMICOM / NES medley featuring triangle wave

They are playing old game music by using Nintendo NES.

Dragon Quest 3


Super Mario BROS.

Too Big Beard

This is a statue in Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi. Do you think this is too big? But, this is not exaggerated. This man, Gaishi Nagaoka (1858-1933), a lieutenant general in the army in Japan, really had this big beard.

He worked for spreading airplane and skiing over Japan in Meiji era.

Who does this remind you? "Whitebeard" from One Piece?

Final Fantasy VII Remake

It's not official remake version by Square Enix, it's made by fans. Studio Paint is making "Final Fantasy VII Remake" by using Unreal Development Kit.

Japanese Players Won The Magic The Gathering 2011 World Championship

The world championship of the Magic The Gathering was hold at San Francisco from the 17th to the 20th of Nobember 2011. Japanese players won the team competition and the individual match.

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/worlds11/welcome

Ringo Sheena Song Ranking

Internet music download service, RekoChoku has released Ringo Sheena Song Ranking. The vote was made from October 26th to November 8th 2011.

No. 5 Marunouchi Sadistic


No. 4 Ariamaru Tomi: Rich Enough


No. 3 Gips


No. 2 Honno: Instinct


No. 1 Koko De Kiss Shite: Kiss Me Right Now




Ringo Sheena / Muzai Moratorium

Ken Matsudaira is Indian Singer?

What is this song? This is "Matsuken Maharaja." It looks very strange. He is Ken Matsudaira (Matsuken), an actor mostly plays samurai roles.

Ken Matsudaira - Wikipedia

Active both in television and on stage, he also sings. Matsudaira is most widely known for jidaigeki roles, having made his debut with Shintaro Katsu in an episode of the television series Zatoichi. For a quarter of a century, he starred in the series Abarenbo Shogun as Tokugawa Yoshimune, the title character.

Dragon Quest "Slime" Shaped Steamed Bun

Family Mart, one of post popular convenience store is selling "Slime" shaped steamed bun since November 29th. "Slime" is an enemy and a mascot in Dragon Quest series, and it was designed by Akira Toriyama, the author of Dragon Ball. Family Mart announced that they will sell these "Slime" steam bun by one million pieces. The price is 170yen.

Official Website

The Legend of Zelda Game Music Medley in Link Costume

An American violinist, Lindsey Stirling plays The Legend of Zelda BGM Medley in Link Costume.

Miniature Train?

It looks like a video of miniature trains, but it's real movie with special effect. This video was shot in Kansai area. Beautiful and cute.

Synchronized Human Group Activity

Demonstration videos from Nippon Sport Science University.

Men version


Women version

Amazing Modern Samurai, Isao Machii

Isao Machii (町井 勲) is an Iaido master in Japan. He was born in 1973, August 20th, and currently have GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS for his sword technique.

Costume Player in Australia plays Game Music

She is a musicia in Australia, Lara. Recently, she is becoming very popular in Japan. She plays music from video game or anime in costumes, like Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Sailor Moon and so on.

Lara's youtube channel

Amazingly Talented Child Actress, Mana Ashida

Now in Japan, there comes out the most talented child actress ever, Mana Ashida.

Mana Ashida - Wikipedia

Mana Ashida first acted Asahi Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Short Movie 2, though she rose to prominence only after she starred in the popular television drama Mother. She later became the youngest lead star in Japanese drama history when she starred in the special drama Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien. She is also the youngest lead actress when she starred in a television serial drama when she acted in the serial drama Marumo no Okite on the spring of 2011. Furthermore, she starred in Japanese films such as Confessions and Usagi Drop.

She has currently released her solo album, "Happy Smile!" She is also performing as a singer at her age of 7. Many people in Japan are hoping her future becoming greater actress.

Trip in Tokyo video from Youtube

from description

Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ginza, Tsukiji, Akihabara and Narita... as well as checking out the Ginza Line, Shibuya 109-2, Shinjuku Gardens, Tsukiji Fish Market, Maid Cafes, PARCO, Kaiten Sushi and the Shinjuku Ni-Chrome District.

100 million yen Bonsai Pine Tree

A Bonsai (potted plant) pine of 100 million yen was sold in the "Asia-Pacific Bonsai Convention" in Takamatsu. It was attached with "sold" card, and many guests take photos of the tree.

The contractor is from Hanyu-shi, Saitama. The presumed age of the tree is 300 years, and height is 105 cm. It is called "the Bonsai of the ideal" (the contractor) which combines the thick trunk which surges, and the delicate shape of the branches.

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