Sexy Mai Nishida, wow!

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Kyoto beautfy Mai Nishida 西田麻衣 continues to expand her fan base.  With these kinds of videos, she’ll have more fans for sure.

Mai Nishida Videos

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Posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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USB powered bust beauty warmer pad from Thanko

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Those wacky otaku folks at Thanko have come up with an (ideal?) gift for your Japanese OL office lady girlfriend this Christmas – the USB Bust Beauty Pad USB バストビューティーパッド.  It’s actually designed to warm her breast under her bra during those cold winter days working at the computer.

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The USB Bust Beauty Pad is powered by your pc and your girlfriend just slips the U-shaped pads under her bra which will warm to up to 40C. The pads are meant to last about six months, and the whole set-up costs about 1980 Yen.

Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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Japanese family have fun jumping rope

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Joy is having fun with the family.  It’s the same in Japan. Here a Japanese family is having fun jumping rope together.  Photo taken a nursery school event.

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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How to transform yourself into Sailor Moon

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How Michelle Pham transforms herself into her anime idol Sailor Moon. Watch this make up and cosplay special.

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Posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009
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Wakana Matsumoto, prettier than Nozomi Sasaki?

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Wakana Matsumoto 松本若菜 is a very pretty Japanese actress and model from Tottori prefecture Japan.  She is mostly known for her role as Airi Nogami in the tokusatsu drama Kamen Rider Den-O (TV Asahi 2007).  She has also appeared in  Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari 4 (TV Asahi, 2009, ep1) and Around 40 (TBS, 2008).

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This year she has appeared in movies Maho no I Land DVD: SixDays + another story and Fujoshi Kanojo, TV show “Cho” Kowai Hanashi Fictions Yumeaki Hirayama Gankyu Yuen, released one idol DVD couleur – Shikisai and just in time for Christmas, a 2010 calendar.

Posted on Friday, November 13th, 2009
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Miu Nakamura FINAL 2/3

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Miu Nakamura 仲村みう is a 19 year old gravure idol and Jpop singer. She started as a teenage gravure idol and won the 2006  “Miss Young Magazine” award.   In 2007 she took a short break and upon returning she  focused more on music, acting and voice-acting.

Miu Nakamura Videos

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Posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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Japanese Ume Plum Blossom

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This beautiful Japanese flower often seen in traditional paintings  is the Japanese plum blossom which comes from the Japanese ume 梅:うめ (Japanese apricot or Chinese plum tree)

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The tree  is cultivated for its fruit and flowers and although generally referred to as a plum in the English language, it is actually more closely related to the apricot. The tree flowers in late winter, typically late January or February before the leaves appear. Each flower has five petals has coloring ranging from white to rose to deep red.

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Posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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Japanese farmer uses RC helicopter to spray crops

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Here’s one Japanese farmer who uses his hobby RC (remote controlled)  helicopter to good work use – spraying his small rice field in Goshogarawa in the Tsugaru area in Amori prefecture.

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Posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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Naoto Fukasawa’s real fruit drink carton design

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Naoto Fukasawa 深澤 直人is a 53 year old Japanese industrial designer from  Yamanashi Prefecture who has many design awards.  One of his designs we like is his fruit drink box carton which has the look and feel of real fruits.

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Fukasawa is a also professor at Musashino Art University and a visiting lecturer at Tama Art University.

Posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009
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Japan’s most common family names list

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According to the Japan times, Japan has  more than 100,000 family names now in use in today.   That is more than the 200 in Korea and comparable to the the few thousands in China but still behind the US which has around million surnames.

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Can you guess which are the most common family names in Japan?  Here are the top 100 most common Japanese family names these days

  1. Sato
  2. Suzuki
  3. Takahashi
  4. Tanaka
  5. Watanabe
  6. Ito
  7. Yamamoto
  8. Nakamura
  9. Kobayashi
  10. Kato
  11. Yoshida
  12. Yamada
  13. Sasaki
  14. Yamaguchi

Posted on Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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