Buzz Tagged
japan
Last Updated
May 16, 2008
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MOMA: Destination Japan
Style Buzz MOMA's cute collection of lifestyle products from Japan. Here's a roundup of cute yet slightly pointless favorites from the collection.
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Nonpoisonous Fugu
Food Buzz Controversy erupts over a new technique for farming nonpoisonous fugu. Fugu is DANGEROUS and people die from eating it! But that might be the very reason it is prized as a special delicacy. Now farmed-raised, nonpoisonous Fugu is threatening to undermine Japan's entire Fugu-Industrial Complex.
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QR Codes
Tech Buzz Two-dimensional barcodes that let you encode secret messages in the form of text, music, voice, logos are becoming increasingly popular in Japan. All you need is a camera phone and some QR software to start using them. They're like the 2.0 version of secret decoder rings.
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Placenta 10000
Food Buzz How do Japanese women manage to look so good? Easy! By drinking pig placenta! As part of the FOSHU movement (Food For Specific Health Use), drinking Placenta 10000 Jelly Drink is said to rejuvenate one's energy and approve appearance. Fair enough, but if we're going to drink pig, it had better get us tipsy, too.
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Doraemon
Politics Buzz The Japanese government has officially appointed Doraemon, an animated robotic cat, to be Japan's cultural ambassador to the world. Aww! There would be a lot less violence and strife in the world if countries were run by giant cuddly robot-cats.
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Schoolboy Cafe
Food Buzz Schoolboy cafe in Tokyo caters to female readers of the popular "boy-love" manga genre. Based on a 1970s cult comic about romance at a German school, at "Cafe Edelsteins," young male waiters wear lipgloss and flirt with women customers pretending to be wealthy benefactors of the school. Edelstein is the first role play cafe to target "Fujoshi" as the female patrons which translates to "rotten girls".
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Usavich
TV Buzz A refreshingly original and funny animated series by MTV Japan has shorts you can watch online. Oh, how we miss the days of Liquid TV, Daria, and even Beavis and Butthead. It's nice to see there's innovative and quirky animation still coming out of their studios, and now it is all available on the web. (Thanks for the tip, Gavin!)
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