Category Archives: Japan

Stuff related to Japan, duh!

Denki Groove Flashback Disco

Really weird video from Denki Groove An anthropomorphic cow which blows smoke from it’s nose singing and dancing along to music by some weird pokemon looking dj who is also cooking something in an oven while djing… Yeah, I dunno, just watch it, it’s interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK9FkutYTAI

Revenge of the Japanese Pizza

I think we all need to laugh sometimes. And what better way to do it than to so than to fall back on the age old standards of differing tastes and cultural misunderstandings. I just got an email from Pizzahut Japan‘s pizza hut club (which I am a member of because we order a pizza […]

Interesting Japanese translations

Every once in a while when I am translating I run into weird/interesting things so I thought I would share a few. For example I recently had to translate some magazine articles for an alcoholic beverage company (which wasn’t even a Japanese company, the articles were in Japanese magazines and being translated from Japanese to […]

Popping

Popping, a R&B/hip hop based dance style from the 70’s has become popular of late in Japan, and whereas I’m not generally a huge R&B or dance fan some of this stuff is neat to watch. One of the biggest things in the media over here was an 11 year old girl, whose father is […]

Funny pictures

Some fun pictures compiled with a really good Japanese song.

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