Japanese News

12/20/2011

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.

12/18/2011

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.

12/17/2011

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?

12/16/2011

"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?

12/15/2011

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.