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Re: Top 10 Strange Japanese Films You Need to Watch

Elfmaid — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:39:43 -0000

Perfect Blue is one of his and whew can you say MindF**k? Knew you could! Animation is fanTASTic and the story is O_o!!! VERY worth watching!

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

simplyshiny — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:18:39 -0000

omg how DARE they post about bands they like and want to share with other people? What is this, the internet?

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

simplyshiny — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:11:50 -0000

Loving them! I need to expand my fields of Jmusic from Johnny's and the like...though I DO love Johnny's ....I got really into Cocoa Otoko, but now they're gonna disband...

Re: Genki Sudo’s World Order: The Most Innovative Dance & Music Troupe In Japan.

Kira — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:45:17 -0000

bought the cd, twice :3 this was great! thank you so much for posting the videos, I feel inspired too.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

kitsuki — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:53:56 -0000

nice, i feel like i've heard a couple their songs before, i liked the songs you included.
I really like Rintoshiteshigure　「凛として時雨」, they aren't that well known to audiences outside Japan。

Re: The Greatest Sushi Restaurant In The World

(゜o゜) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:16:55 -0000

This can be explained by Col. Sanders being a time traveler. And since it was in France, uh... also a regular traveler, I guess.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

John — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:11:17 -0000

You're welcome! Glad you like them.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

Tilly — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:48:40 -0000

My favorite band! Thank you for posting <3

Let's see, my favorite songs are Antaresu to Hari and Omotesandō 26-ji. But Aruku Around was the first song I liked of theirs, and definitely has a cool music video.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

Ash28 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:37:37 -0000

Wow, these guys are great. Thanks for the post *_*

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

Lillian — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:23:17 -0000

Everyone who cares about Boredoms/V∞redoms already knows about them -- they've been around since what, 86? (Hell, I first heard them on a US college radio station in the deep south more than 12 years ago.) Why do people trying to show off their Japanese music street cred still name-drop them?
Some of these pop groups may last longer than you'd think. And yes, actually, this IS why there is more than one blog that posts about music on the internet! That whole "there's a wide variety of music out there" thing.

Music snobbery sucks.

Re: Don’t Know Polysics? You’re Missing Out On The Most Eccentric Band In Japan. [Saturday Timewaster]

Lillian — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:21:30 -0000

I love Dohatsuten!

Re: The Japanese Are Dying To Get To Work [Karoshi]

susanne — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:04:05 -0000

Well, I once worked for a Japanese Company over here in Europe. I couldn't believe when I saw the boss sitting at his desk, sleeping! A local boss never ever would sleep at the desk. Anyone doing that over here would loose the face.
Of course, the subordinates of the Japanese boss started working erarlier than he did and would leave later than he. Well, at least one had stomach troubles.

I've heard of this Japanese who is working at the moment for a Japanese company over here in Europe. He lives home at 6:30 am to be at work by 7 and gets back around 9pm. When the Japanese stock exchange starts a couple of hours after midnight he gets phone calls...
He is allowed to take one week of vacation, even though, over here it's a minimum of 4 weeks vacation who people have to take.

Such work hours are just nuts. No one can be productive for 12 hours over a longer period.
Moreover, working such hours, the society looses in the long run. Tthose people have no chance to have a social life...
No wonder, the Japanese society is aging really fast and eventually is becoming extinct, if the children birth rate stays low, when there is neither time to find a mate nor for a family life!

For the individual it's sad, for a society a tragedy in the long run.

Japan at the very top
http://www.nationmaster.com/gr...

Japan at the very end
http://www.nationmaster.com/gr...

Here in the middle
http://www.nationmaster.com/gr...

http://www.nationmaster.com/re...

Re: The Japanese Are Dying To Get To Work [Karoshi]

shades_of_blu3 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:37:01 -0000

wow, a real eye opener. Great article!

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

John — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:50:47 -0000

Yeah I was really impressed with Aruku Around the first time I saw it. One-take videos are always pretty interesting - I also really liked what they did with the characters lining up for the lyrics. Very cool.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

John — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:49:17 -0000

Sorry to hear you haven't been enjoying our music posts lately. While some of the bands you mentioned might be more musically significant, not many of them have PVs (at least not that I could find) and the ones that did only had a few and/or weren't very interesting. I like to share music that is both enjoyable and has some cool music videos to go along with it. I actually really enjoy Ametsub but their music/image videos (while appropriate for the music) just aren't that entertaining on their own, you know what I mean? There's a lot of times I'll run across a really cool non-pop, underground/indie/whatever band, but they just don't have enough content out to make for a full post :(

Re: The Greatest Sushi Restaurant In The World

fuhk_yoo — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:35:24 -0000

before i spend $400 on a few pieces of fish i would rather take a boat to an island and catch all i can eat.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

threadbrains — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:32:07 -0000

Geeeez. Enough with the pop already. Bands like Acid Others Temple, Corrupted, Birushannah, Toru Takemitsu, Cavo, Ametsub, Filfla, Envy, Boredoms, Yann Tomita seem like the more significant musical export and perhaps more worthy of props in front such an earnest audience. I mean, for posterity's sake; these are some of the artists that will actually affect future music. Why not help them along that path, rather than promoting these inessential and ubiquitous radio-friendly groups?

On second thoughts, I'd be kind of confused seeing that sort of content here.
Bah. I guess this is why I read Tokyo Damage Report.

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

Hijack5 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:24:00 -0000

Oh, when I first heard about them, I thought it was read as Sakana kushon (Fish Cushion?) xD

Re: Fish Action Gets Your Body Movin’ [Saturday Timewaster]

Hijack5 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:11:58 -0000

Sakanaction <3
Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei desu is my favourite song. The one man line dance <3 Everytime I watch that
video it makes me want to copy that dance move.

I also like Aruku Around which is the first song I heard of theirs and the video is
simply amazing. It's well choregraphed and the timing is spot on. One of my favourite music video!
Native Dancer video is pretty cool and it makes me want to buy trainers (sneakers) xD

Re: Japanese iPhone App Punishes Oversleepers with Embarrassing Tweets

Roentgen Del Mundo — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:13:05 -0000

Oh no!

Re: The Japanese Are Dying To Get To Work [Karoshi]

Ken Seeroi — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:16:45 -0000

I've worked in two Japanese offices, and I'll tell you, never again. The workloads were tremendous and the hours absurd. I have no doubt that what others say about people just killing time at their desks is correct, but in the places I worked, we were seriously busy from morning till night. They just took on more projects than were humanly possible. Working hard in Japan seems to trump all reason. It's certainly one of the reasons that many foreigners don't stay here for more than a year or two.

I feel sorry for my Japanese friends, most of whom put in 12+ hour days. I can also attest to what Nicole says as being true. Some employees put in 18 hours a day, or more. I had a friend who worked in an office where they put in 20 hours a day, then slept at their desks for 4 hours. Once a week they could go home and take a shower.

There's a lot of things to love about Japan, but work isn't one of them.

Re: The Greatest Sushi Restaurant In The World

Ken Seeroi — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:03:16 -0000

It looks amazing, but seriously $300-$400? Jeeeez, you could buy an aquarium for that much. I'm sure it's way better than the $15 meal I get sitting in front of a conveyor belt, but at that price, wow. Somebody fax me some yen.

Sure love to be able to try it though . . .

Re: The Greatest Sushi Restaurant In The World

Julie Helmi — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:12:33 -0000

Well I think that was in a Wiki reference about the reservations thing. I think if a person is going to spend that kind of money, they would find a place for them to sit =)

Thanks for the article. It is interesting and now I'm dying for some good sushi!

Re: The Greatest Sushi Restaurant In The World

Julie Helmi — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:10:38 -0000

There are a couple really good sushi restaurants in Southern Calif but online reviews aren't much help with that. I have had sushi in Japan and have no problem recommending Aki's in Long Beach and Gonpachi in Torrance. At both the bar is much better where they have really good sushi chefs who know their fish. Gonpachi do not sit at the tables. There are a few others in Santa Monica and Culver City that were good but I've been to Aki's and Gonpachi more than a few times and they are consistent.

I agree, most places in Southern California are more about making money rather than quality. I won't even get into the roll fad here.

Re: The Japanese Are Dying To Get To Work [Karoshi]

Viet — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:45:40 -0000

Thanks for sharing your experience. Sorry to hear about your boyfriend. Hopefully he gets out of there before he becomes accustomed to the grind or they promote him into a less time-consuming position :\