A stricter law against illegal downloading of media went into affect this week in Japan, meaning harsh punishments for those caught uploading OR downloading music, movies, TV shows, whatever. It will be interesting to see what the first big punishment to come out of this will be – a lot of people I know are…
For the next few weeks, Station To Station will be happening on Thursday nights for various reasons that will be revealed in due time. Don’t worry – our irrational hate of Sexy Zone won’t be going anywhere. Anne “Ai Wo Anata Ni” WATCH HERE New night, but same old boring material. This might be a…
First Station To Station of 2012, rejoice rejoice! Been a long time since we have journeyed into this sketchy sonic territory, but Music Station doesn’t disappoint this week, giving us a surprisingly wide variety of J-Pop (and K-Pop!) to sample and eventually stick our tongues out at. Let’s get the rust off. Ikimono-gakari “いつだって僕らは” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGttchG98RI&ob=av3e”]…
The world’s most expensive photograph, ya’ll. Over the past week I’ve seen a bunch of people guffawing at the price (completely fair) and buzzing off about how this isn’t art but rather a glorified Polaroid snap (wrong!). It’s a very pretty shot that also came in a pretty huge size, and seeing people be all…
Up there? That’s the new seasonal flavor of Pepsi here in Japan, the stomach-churning “Strawberry Milk” flavor. I’ve yet to summon the courage to try it, but the very presence of the word “milk” on the soda wrapper has me buggin’ out. Just a terrible combination. Arashi “Meikyu Love Song” [youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_b5fgzCC34″] AKB48 grab all the…