kizashi – blog keyword ranking
Posted by harvey in Culture on 05. Feb, 2007 | Comments Off
A Japanese website called KIZASHI allows you to view, in real-time the keywords which are being mentioned most frequently in Japanese blogs on the internet. On the right side of the top page, there is a section that says kizashi語ランキング. This lists the words that are most frequently mentioned in the blogs that kizashi indexes. [...]
Japanese Music – HIFANA
Posted by harvey in Music on 03. Feb, 2007 | Comments Off
I rarely post about music, but this is hot! HIFANA – PV on YouTube Check out the HIFANA official website as well. A couple of Japanese art school graduates turned DJ’s. This song has a distinctive Okinawa flavor. Check it out! If you purchase their CD, it comes with a DVD with tons of videos. [...]
Chikan Tshirt
Posted by harvey in Crazy Consumers, Humor on 01. Feb, 2007 | 7 Comments
You guys may know that you can get pretty… wild? shirts with Japanese text over at J-List… But I had never really seen them in action in Japan before… Until! The shirt says… 「痴漢注意、危険人物出現中」”chikan cyuui, kiken jinbutsu shutsugencyuu” Which roughly translates into… “Watchout for perverts! (specifically, train gropers) Dangerous person is on the loose.” You [...]
