Saturday, August 11, 2012

Tokyo Skytree


I went to Asakusa to see Tokyo Skytree.

Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリー Tōkyō Sukaitsurī?) is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the Canton Tower,and the second tallest structure in the world after Burj Khalifa (829.84 m/2,723 ft).

The building which has an enormous golden structure at the top is very strange
It is often colloquially referred to as "the golden turd"  or "poo building" by many Tokyo residents.


Saturday, July 28, 2012

Pepsi Salty Watermelon


Pepsi release a strange flavor cola every summer.
This summer's flavor is salty watermelon.

This guy tried the interesting experiment.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Arufa/touch/20120728

Friday, July 6, 2012

The newest single of Momoiro Clover Z


This is one of the most popular Japanese idol group, “Momoiro clover Z (MCZ, ももいろクローバーZ)”.

This song is “otome-sensou(Z女戦争)”, their newest song. 



Friday, June 29, 2012

The ukiyo-e style paintings of japanese masterpiece games.

There are paintings of japanese masterpiece game which is painted in ukiyo-e style.

Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.


1.MARIO KART




2.Pokémon














3.The Legend of Zelda

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4.Star Fox


5.Kirby's Avalanche






6. METROID





7.Castlevania




8.ROCKMAN


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Saturday, June 16, 2012

WORLD ORDER


WORLD ORDER-The first and last of dance performance units fascinating the world with its original sound and physical expression.



Genki Sudo, who was a martial artist and now actively works as an entertainer and writer etc., organized a performance unit with six excellent dancers. The seven men including the chief choreographer Ryo Noguchi concentrate their inspirations and embody the unique world view.


In his fighting career, Genki Sudo declared to put everything he had into both fighting and entrance performance equally because of his enthusiasm to express his fighting as an exquisite entertainment. Now he launches an all-out sound project – WORLD ORDER. The performance with fully exploiting the dancers' high physical abilities, song by Genki himself, and the pop & sensitive dance music merge into a distinctive world. Such an unparalleled and originative style of expression receives fervent support in Asia, the United States, Canada and the EU.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Enjoy the AKB48 Election with Google+

AKB48 General Election
Global bilingual streaming officially scheduled for June 6th on Google+.


https://plus.google.com/117147321771860727748/posts




This is TV commercial of Google+.
This quotes last year's speech of Atsuko Maeda.




Translation - "During the last year, I've lived everyday thinking about many different things. I only ask for one thing. Even if you dislike me, please don't dislike AKB. Thank you very much!" (and the text that comes up is) "This year's legend has already begun. Enjoy the AKB48 Election/Selection with Google+." )

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Male Odorite

His name is M-taishi.He dance to the old Japanese game music "Yie ar kung-fu".
This music is arranged by Hyadain who is famous musician in nico nico douga.


Friday, June 1, 2012

Two girls dance to the DANJO music(Odorite in nico nico douga)

There are famous amateur dancer in nico nico douga.


The 47 girl has grown to be a beautiful lady.



Sunday, May 27, 2012

Makoron(Odorite in nico nico douga)

There is a lot of amateurs who upload their own dance video on nico nico douga which is a popular video sharing site in Japan.

They are called Odorite (Japanese for dancer).

Although they aren't professional, famous Odorite has excellent technique.

Many people enjoy their videos and people become enthusiasts.

 I want to introduce you talented Odorites.

Makoron is one of the famous female Odorite. After she uploaded her video, she became famous immediately by her beauty and good style.





Friday, May 25, 2012

Kyary pamyu pamyu's first full album

Kyary pamyu pmayu's first full album "Pamyu Pamyu Revolution" has topped the iTunes' electronic charts in United States.


This reaction represents the height of her popularity.











Thursday, May 24, 2012

AKB48 general election was started.

The 4th general election of AKB48.
The purpose of this election is to decide members for AKB48's 27th single's members and coupling members.

If you bought AKB48's 26th single, you would be able to obtain voting right.
And you can vote for your favorite AKB48 member.


Last year,Atsuko Maeda got the most votes.But this year she didn't participate in this election.








Friday, May 18, 2012

AKB48 dressed as a man

The commercial message of suit company in which core members of AKB48 ,Yuko Oshima, Minami Takahashi, Mariko Shinoda, Minami Minegishi, Aki Takagi, Yui Yokoyama, appeared was published May 9.





I like Mariko Shinoda the most.I think it looks good on her.



Thursday, May 17, 2012

Atsuko Maeda says she will leave AKB48


Atsuko Maeda, one of the most popular members of the all-female idol group AKB48, said she will leave the group.
She has been an actual leader of AKB48 since the group started.
She made a significant contribution to AKB48.





Atsuko Maeda (前田 敦子 Maeda Atsuko?, born July 10, 1991 in Ichikawa, Chiba) is a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She is in Team A and one of the most prominent members in the group, being voted number one in the 2009 and 2011 Senbatsu Elections. In the 2010 Senbatsu Election, however, she lost to fellow member Yuko Oshima, who was the lead for their 17th Single: Heavy Rotation. She is part of the "Senbatsu" group which consists of AKB48 members that are featured in their most recent singles. On Sunday 25th March, 2012, she announced her retirement or 'graduation' from the group.[1]

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[edit]AKB48

AKB48 released "Aitakatta" on the major label Defstar Records. Before this release, two singles were released as independent records. For this song, 20 members were selected from the 36 members of Team A & Team K. Maeda was one of these selected members, and she performed a leading role in the promotional video of this song. She has appeared at the front of every single ever since.
The group's 12th single, "Namida Surprise!", included voting tickets for the 2009 AKB48 Senbatsu Election, where fans can vote for who will be featured in the next single. Maeda won with 4630 votes, becoming AKB48's most popular member and frontgirl for their 13th single, "Iiwake Maybe".[2] However, in 2010, another election was held and Maeda lost to Yuko Oshima, who had 31,448 votes, whereas Maeda had 30,851 votes, so Yuko became the frontgirl for "Heavy Rotation".[3]
Later that year a different type of election was held (AKB48 Janken Senbatsu Tournament) where any member in the group could be front girl. The members were selected by using the rock-paper-scissors method and Mayumi Uchida received the top spot of AKB48's single "Chance no Junban" which marked the first time a relatively unknown member has been at the front of a single.[4] Maeda and Yuko were back at the front spots for the next single, "Beginner".
In 2011, a third AKB48 senbatsu election was held. During the early results, Yuko Oshima was leading with first place. However in the final results Maeda won first place with 139,892 votes whereas Yuko Oshima had 122,843 votes beating her with 17049 votes.[5]
On 25th March 2012, during an AKB48 Concert at the Saitama Super Arena, Maeda announced that she will be graduating from AKB48 soon.[6]

[edit]As a solo singer

On April 23, 2011, it was announced by Maeda herself at AKB48's handshake event in Nagoya Dome that she would make her solo debut with her debut single "Flower", one of the insert songs for Moshidora, a movie in which Maeda plays the leading role, released on June 22, 2011.[7][8] She is the second AKB48 member to release a solo single afterTomomi Itano with the single "Dear J".

[edit]Acting career

In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (「あしたの私のつくり方」?), which was her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film August 20, 2006 and finished it in late September. After that, she landed various TV drama roles, including lead roles in the dramas "Majisuka Gakuen" and "Q-10."
Maeda, along with fellow AKB member Minegishi Minami, starred in Moshidora, a film released on June 4, 2011, marking her first lead role as a movie actress. Moshidora is a movie about how a weak high school baseball team's caretaker named Minami Kawashima that Maeda plays leads the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by learning strategies from Peter Drucker's business book Management.
In 2011, she played Mizuki Ashiya in Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, a remake of the popular 2007 drama series.

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Gundam & Figma Stop Motion

So cool Japanese toy story  made by Taiwanees.





The Gundam Series (ガンダムシリーズ Gandamu Shirīzu?) is ametaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Mobile Suits" (MS); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam.
The metaseries started on April 7, 1979, as a serial TV show calledMobile Suit Gundam. That first TV series has since spawned a franchise that has come to include works released in numerous media. Titles have appeared in the form of multiple television series and OVAs, movies, manga, novels and video games, among other modes. The story from the original 1979 series has been considerably extended with sequels, prequels, side stories and alternate timelines. As a result, the title Gundam has become a collective term for the seven distinct but related timelines that can be pieced together from the stories that appear in the Gundam franchise. Generally speaking, the timelines do not intersect, but they do contain a few common elements such as the titular war machines called Gundam. However, all Gundam timelines and worlds, long after their own anime series, do eventually intersect and combine in the series Turn A Gundam.[1][2]
The original timeline for the Gundam series was the Universal Century (UC) series, which included Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985). Since the 1990s, alternative timelines have been produced and developed, including the Future CenturyAfter ColonyAfter WarCorrect CenturyCosmic Era,Anno Domini and Advanced Generation timelines.
As of January 21, 2008, the Gundam franchise is a 50 billion yen trademark.[3] A year 2000 press release stated that retail sales of Gundam items had totaled $5 billion.[4] In the 2008 ranking of average sales figures for anime copies sold in Japan (1970-2008 total sales figures averaged by episode), Gundam series were in four of the top five places: Mobile Suit Gundam ranked second, with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny third,Mobile Suit Gundam SEED fourth, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam fifth. Also, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ranked 18th and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ranked 20th.[5] Gunpla's (Gundam Plastic model) holds 90% of the Japan character plastic model market.[6]
Academics in Japan have also viewed the series as inspiration, with the International Gundam Society being the first academic institution based on an animated TV series.[7]

Monday, May 7, 2012

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Extra:Travel to Taipei in Taiwan.Second day.

I went to Presidential Office Building, Taipei.
The building was designed by architect Uheiji Nagano during the period of Japanese rule of Taiwan(1895-1945).
My great-grandfather was working on this building.So I want to visit here.






Bank of Taiwan.

Then I went to Jiufen which is a renowned tourist attraction of Taiwan.
Jiufen became popular in 2001, when its downtown was used a model in the anime movie Spirited Away.
Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produces by Studio Ghibli.


Ice cream.

I ate meat noodle again.

Taiwanese dog.

Down town.



Tea house.








The view from tea house.




Souvenir shop.




Temple.





After that I came back Taipei and I waked around the city.

Night market.

I ate lurou fan which is minced fatty pork served on rice.


Third day, I went back to Tokyo early in the morning.
I got on the EVA AIR's Hello Kitty Jet.It was cute.