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Japan: Land of the Rising WTF
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Japan is a very strange place
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A great introduction to the wonderful world of nigiri and maki. This is a children's song from NHK morning - I wish British kids tv was this good!
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Yes, this is a real person. And he's an assistant professor at the Tokyo University of Marine Science.
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The man currently in charge of the world's 7th largest economy lives inside bottles of japanese beer(?) and cackles like a lunatic at you when you open the bottle.
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There is no way I could eat something that's still moving! Could you?
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No plot points are really spoiled in this excerpt. Great, great film.
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Astro Boy is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became known as anime. This version originally premiered on Fuji TV, on New Year's Day 1963, but was eventually... continue reading
posted by Anea 1 decade 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 3,318 viewsInteresting door design from Japan.
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Paranoia Agent is a Japanese anime television miniseries about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil' Slugger (Shonen Bat, or Bat Boy in the original Japanese... continue reading
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By Rahmens, the same people who did "Sushi: The Japanese Tradition". Japanese people are very talented at humbly apologizing ("shazai"). This video will help you learn how to apologize.
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God I wish I could get away with this in Manchester.
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