Dear Lawson Convenience Stores, Hey, how ya doing? Before I get to the heart of this letter, I want to thank you for being the best convenience store chain in all of Japan. It might sound funny to even have a favorite convenience store, yet life in modern-day Japan demands constant trips to such places…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db7Kqew-pVI”] So in Japan there is a children’s TV show on NHK about chairs who talk and do people stuff. It’s cute, pretty fun and also a surprisingly solid way of learning enough Japanese to talk to a toddler. It’s great, and they recently did a Perfume homage so they gained even more points in…
Justin Bieber visited Japan this week and the consensus seems to be he’s a pretty cool guy for not backing out of his concerts in the country over a lil’ radiation threat. I’m going to…agree with the majority! Dude deserves credit for doing something a lot of other folks didn’t do – actually help Japan…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXRWBUxpUQ”] Yeah…is it? I mean, the “Laser Beam” single comes out today so the world should know soon but…here’s a video possibly maybe of B-side “微かなカオリ” (or at least a little of it). If this IS the song…well, it might be the most cookie-cutter J-Pop thing they’ve ever done. It’s also pretty boring! UPDATE: Neaux…
Wrote that headline and realized this episode of Music Station falls on a Friday the 13th. Who knows what spooky surprises await! Oh, another appearance by Kanjani8? IT REALLY IS CURSED. aiko “恋のスーパーボール” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0-QP1z05Gc”] Sadly, the video above is only a short commercial for aiko’s new single, so it seems a bit unfair to make…