This is an awesome innovation on what many people would say is a dying medium. And the best thing about it is that it doesn't resort to digital or technological gimmicks. It just takes two very ...
Lady Gaga turned into Gagadoll sex doll by Tokyo’s Orient Industry
December 4, 2013
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William
As a promo for her new album ARTPOP in Japan, Lady Gaga and Universal Music Japan asked Japan's most prestigious sex doll maker, Orient Industry, to create the Gagadoll.
Can you tell which is the ...
Nippon TV's Song for Japan might seem like a typical singing contest except for the fact that none of the contestants are Japanese. It's a contest that is exclusive to foreigners, presumably for the ...
One of our favorite Japanese enterprises, Maywa Denki, has made a typically original and hilarious group music video to celebrate twenty years since it was founded.
Maywa Denki is part music band, ...
Sumo Wrestler Salt Shaker
Traditional wrestler-shaped condiment container
When the staff become the stars: AKB’s new marketing strategy
September 19, 2013
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Mina
With the recent release of their 32nd single, "Koi suru Fortune Cookie," AKB48 has once again proven their monopoly in Japan's music industry. After hitting the physical and digital shelves on August ...
A new Guinness World Record has been set for the number of theremins ever being played together. Masami Takeuchi organized the music concert of 272 theremin "Matryomin" instruments in Hamamatsu in ...
Tokyo Reporter has posted about another incident in the ongoing "No dancing" saga that is affecting Japan's nightlife.
GP Bar in Roppongi was raided and the manager and DJ arrested for the heinous ...
In 1998 the famous guitarist from pioneering visual kei rock band X JAPAN, Hideto Matsumoto (commonly known as just "hide"), suddenly passed away at the age of thirty-three. To remember this, every ...
Proplica Pac-Pak Pac-Man Figure
Classic video game character toy
Whether you like them or not, Golden Bomber seems to have found their own gold in the entertainment scene. Their latest album titled The Past Masters Vol. 1 which was released on April 24th, topped ...
An actor is someone who acts. A dancer is someone who dances. A singer is someone who sings. They all get paid to do what their job title claims, but when it comes to singing, we tend to become more ...
A special music video for the release in Japan of Alicia Keys' new single, Girl on Fire, has been made by the photographer and film director Mika Ninagawa.
The special collaboration is officially ...
Kit Kat and Japanese singer wish students good luck with 3D AR phone app
December 27, 2012
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William
It might only be late December but some people are already thinking about spring next year.
Why? Because the most important exams ever for school students take place then.
The singer Naoto Inti ...
My Neighbor Totoro Wind Chimes
Studio Ghibli anime character wind bells
Well, here's a partnership we should have seen coming...
In what cynics might decry as mere geek pop culture tailored for the Brutus-reading, CINRA.net-browsing Tokyo hipster, Hiroki Azuma -- the ...
It seems unless you are an ardent AKB48 fanatic purchasing thousands of copies of the same CD to boost your favorite girl's chances of appearing in the next single, if you are young in Japan, you ...