Avenue Q back for final run
Jan28

Avenue Q back for final run

Remember me raving hell like a lunatic? Well, freakin’ good news!!! Image Source: Atlantis Productions Inc. For more details, visit the Atlantis Productions’ official site

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v-u-den to disband
Jan28

v-u-den to disband

Image Source: Wiki.ThePPn According to Japanese online newspaper Sankei Sports , v-u-den, one of Hello! Project’s subgroups, is finally disbanding in June. The news was announced to fans during a recent concert at the Yokohama Arena. Okada Yui and Miyoshi Erika will be starting solo work still under Hello! Project. Leader Ishikawa Rika will remain in Ongaku Gatas.

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Anime we miss: Time Travel TONDEKEMAN

a.k.a. Time Quest Lilipad, lilipad, takure!

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2007 Top 10 Japanese Buzzwords
Jan18

2007 Top 10 Japanese Buzzwords

Here are Jiyu Kokumin-sha’s Top 10 Ryukogo Taisho (Japanese Buzzwords) for 2007: Rank #1 Dogenka, sen to ikan Somehow, we have to do it — Miyazaki Governor Higashikokubaru Hideo during his exhortation before the assembly of his economically ailing prefecture

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Bento Grass
Jan18

Bento Grass

Original photo from: Sugarcharms What are those green plastic cut-outs in bento boxes for? This is one question that I never got to ask when I was in Japan, thinking that the answer was fairly obvious – as food decoration. But one American visitor to Japan did, and apparently there’s more to this “bento grass” (haran or baran) than meets the eye: They are indeed intended to add color, an essential part of food...

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