Japanese New Year's Day is Troublesome!

Japanese New Year's Day is Troublesome!

Toshikoshi-Soba with Midori No Tanuki

Toshikoshi-Soba with Midori No Tanuki




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Ōmisoka - Wikipedia

Ōmisoka (大晦日), New Year's Eve, is the second-most important day in Japanese tradition because it is the final day of the old year and the eve of New Year's Day, which is the most important day of the year.

Around 11:00 pm on Ōmisoka at home, people often gather for one last time in the old year to have a bowl of toshikoshi-soba (年越しそば) or toshikoshi-udon (年越しうどん) together—a tradition based on people's association of eating the long noodles with “crossing over from one year to the next,” which is the meaning of toshi-koshi. While the noodles are often eaten plain, or with chopped scallions, in some localities people top them with tempura.

Gokudo Ep.1: Connections to the Right-Wing

Gokudo Ep.1: Connections to the Right-Wing

"Uyoku dantai" are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups of which there are over 1,000 in Japan with about 100,000 members in total. Well known for their black-painted propaganda vans, they are often seen driving around staging protests with their loudspeakers outside the Chinese, Korean, and Russian embassies. We caught up with Masaya Kudo, a Right-Wing activist and leader of his own group, "Nihon-no-Kai" as he explained his philosophies and concerns regarding the Righ-Wing movement today.

Zelda Musou will be released in 2014 Summer

Nintendo announced that Zelda Musou will be released as a Wii U soft in 2014 Summer by Koei Tecmo.

Zelda Musou

Safecast: Build Your Own Geiger Counter

Safecast: Build Your Own Geiger Counter

Top 20 Anime DVD Ranking in Japan December 2 - 8, 2013

Top 20 Anime DVD Ranking in Japan December 2 - 8, 2013




#20 One Piece Episode of Merry: Mō Hitori no Nakama no Monogatari

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#19 Pocket Monsters: The Origin

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#18 Monsters, Inc.

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#17 Naruto Shippūden The Great Ninja War: Kanata Kara no Kōgekisha 4

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#16 Madagascar 3

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#15 The Little Mermaid Special Edition

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#14 Cars 2

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#13 Cars

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#12 Gekijō-ban Toriko Bishokushin no Special Menu

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#11 Despicable Me

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#10 Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 2000% 6

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#9 Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea Special Edition

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#8 My Neighbor Totoro

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#7 Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea Standard Edition

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#6 The Devil is a Part-Timer! (6)

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#5 Aikatsu! 7

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#4 One Piece 15th Season Fishman Island piece. 14

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#3 One Piece 15th Season Fishman Island piece. 13

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#2 Doraemon: Nobita no Himitsu Dōgu Museum

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#1 Free! 4

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Japanese Winter is too Cold. Let's Drink Yomeishu!

Japanese Winter is too Cold. Let's Drink Yomeishu!



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Japan in 1959

Japan in 1959



National Archives - Japan Today - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This silent film provides panoramic views, and contains scenes of cultural locations and village life in Japan. - DVD Copied by IASL Scanner John Williams and Justin Grimes. - ARC 1692903 / LI 263.1377

Top 20 Anime DVD Ranking in Japan November 25 - December 1, 2013

Top 20 Anime DVD Ranking in Japan November 25 - December 1, 2013




#20 Monsters, Inc.

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#19 Servant × Service 4

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#18 My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Vol. 6

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#17 Valvrave the Liberator 6

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#16 Haganai NEXT Vol. 5

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#15 Date A Live 6

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#14 My Neighbor Totoro

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#13 Danganronpa The Animation Vol. 4

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#12 Despicable Me

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#11 Attack on Titan5

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#10 Oreimo 2 Vol. 6

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#9 High School DxD New 3

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#8 Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S Vol. 5

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#7 Hidamari Sketch: Sae/Hiro Sotsugyō-hen

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#6 One Piece Episode of Merry: Mō Hitori no Nakama no Monogatari

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#5 Brothers Conflict Vol. 4

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#4 Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea Standard Edition

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#3 Nekomonogatari (White) Vol. II/Tsubasa Tiger Part II

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#2 Detective Conan: Private Eye in the Distant Sea Special Edition

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#1 Uta no Prince-sama - Maji Love 2000% 6

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Korean Idol Group, Crayon Pop's "Lonely Christmas" is very similar to the theme of "Lupin the third"

Lupin the Third theme song




Lupin III - Wikipedia

Lupin III (ルパン三世 Rupan Sansei), also written as Lupin the Third or Lupin the 3rd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Monkey Punch. It follows the escapades of master thief Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's series of novels.

Crayon Pop - Lonely Christmas




Crayon Pop - Wikipedia

Crayon Pop (Hangul: 크레용팝) is a five-member South Korean girl group formed in 2012 under Chrome Entertainment. The members stage names are Gum-mi, Ellin, Way, Cho-a and Soyul.

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Japanese Underground Fighters in Nishinari, Osaka

『WARU下克上』拳の暴力に生きる男たち - Underground Fighters of Japan

Waru (bad boy) is an anything-goes fighting tournament started by movie producer and all round entrepreneur, Yamamoto Yoshihisa. The tournament is now about as rough as it gets when it comes to organized fighting in Japan. There's no K1 or Pride-style sheen to proceedings and no pretty boy posturing or dramatics by the participants either. There are rules but not many of them: no biting, no hits in the dick, and no hits to the face when a player is down. Submissions are forbidden and KOs pay extra dollar, so that's the end goal; though usually "matches end up pretty much just like street fights with someone stepping in to break things up" says Yamamoto. Waru is all-out blood, sweat, and tears, as the red stained rags used to mop the ring after matches will testify to.

Nishinari-ku, Osaka - Wikipedia

Nishinari-ku (西成区) is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. It contains some shopping and entertainment areas, such as Shinsekai and Tamade. It lies directly south of the Namba transport hub and extends further south toward Sumiyoshi Park. It is served by the Nankai Railway lines as well as the Yotsubashi and Sakaisuji subway lines. Nishinari-ku is also home to a number of shitamachi ("lower-town") shopping streets, increasingly a rarity in fast-developing urban Japan. Kamagasaki in Nishinari-ku is home to a large number of day-laborers and most of the homeless people in Osaka.