Last Thursday, The Japan Times ran an article by Ian Martin about Japan’s current efforts to crack down on…wait for it…late-night dancing. Read it here. Here in Osaka, this has been going on for a while now and has been impacting all sorts of great events in the city…INNIT used to go all night, but…
Before we proceed let’s make one point very clear…AKB48 and the management around them are geniuses. The entire hook of AKB48…”idols you can meet” with an underlying fantasy of creating a “personal” connection with whichever member you fancy… is brilliant from the perspective of bringing in customers willing to stick it out with the group….
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtcgzOpplQ”] UPDATE: OK, appears NBC is really good at getting video pulled off the Internet, as the original clip I posted is gone. You can see a clip of the below here and above is another YouTube clip bound to be removed in the near future. Strangely, though, it seems the YouTube comments for both…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcfC7PCneQ”] Some ambitious YouTube uploader decided to show American children Japan’s holographic Vocaloid artist Hatsune Miku and film their reactions. Some notes: – “People go to see that? But she’s not even real????!!!” Yep. – “They had glowsticks and everything” really killed me for some reason. – These kids have the pop industry down pat,…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o8NbHSuYrQ”] Confession – I really like Jersey Shore. I’ve been watching it since those loveable stereotypes popped up on MTV. Some say it signals the end of American society…well, to them I say, wouldn’t you want a front-row seat to the end of the Roman Empire? So when someone told me about Geordie Shore, the…