More Takeshi Gundan TV clips as requested by several readers.  If you can’t take crazy late night TV game shows featuring wacky Japanese comedians (the Takeshi Corps  たけし軍団 ), don’t watch these.  NSFW

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Japanese is a difficult language for many foreigners to learn. Besides tones,  katakana and hiragana, there are numerous expressions and slang to learn.  Japan based comedian “Ken Tanaka” (David Ury) and his assistant Remi February have a funny video on how to speak fluent Japanese without saying a single word and how to speak fluent Japanese by speaking English! Enjoy.

speak fluent Japanese without saying a single word

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speak fluent Japanese by speaking English!

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Puncolle Voice Actresses’ Legendary Punk Song Collection (パンコレ -voice actresses’ legendary punk songs collection) is so bad it’s so good!  This is what you get when you ask Japanese seiyuu (voice animation actresses) to sing classic punk sungs in “Engrish” in cutesy high pitch anime style.

Not your ordinary Jpop, the 2009 album produced by Avex Trax and sung by Momoi Halko , Ikezawa Haruna,  Shimizu Kaori, Kadowaki Mai, Goto Yuuko and Tanaka Rie is hard to take it seriously, after all, it’s clear that taking it seriously was never the point. The album is a joke on every level of interpretation, an unrelenting parody from start to finish almost to the point of being honest tribute instead of parody.

PunColle ~voice actresses’ legendary punk songs collection preview:
01 “Sex and Violence” Halko Momoi The Exploited
02 “Basket Case” Haruna Ikezawa Green Day
03 “White Riot” Kaori Shimizu The Clash
04 “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)” Mai Kadowaki The Offspring
05 “Anarchy In The UK” Rie Tanaka SEX PISTOLS
06 “London’s Burning” Yuko Goto The Clash
07 “Call Me” Halko Momoi Blondie
08 “God Save The Queen” Haruna Ikezawa SEX PISTOLS
09 “Blitzkrieg Bop” Kaori Shimizu Ramones
10 “Search and Destroy” Mai Kadowaki Iggy & The Stooges
11 “Ruby Soho” Rie Tanaka Rancid
12 “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Yuko Goto Nirvana

Puncolle Songs

God Save the Queen – Haruna Ikezawa

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Anarchy In The UK – Rie Tanaka

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Basket Case – Haruna Ikezawa

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Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) – Mai Kadowaki

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London’s Burning – Yuko Goto

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A blast from the past.  A rare front cover drawing with Apple boss  Steve Jobs getting his back massaged by former Microsoft boss Bill Gates on the cover of this Japanese Mac magazine from October 2007.  The heading says -

インテルMac時代のMacとウィンドウズの賢い共有共存 “Mac & Windows Smart Sharing and Co-Existence in the Intel Mac Era”

The subhead in vertical red type is: 拡張子やフォント、ファイルの扱いはここに注意 – “Watch out for extensions, fonts, and file handling!”

The big character on the purple curtains says “Men”.

Can’t explain the monkey, except they’re common at mountain hot spring resorts (onsen)  in some parts of Japan.

Japanese engineers have invented something completely useless, yet totally cool. This time it’s a grabbing device for potato chips so you don’t get grease and salt all over your fingers and crumbs dropping into your keyboard

Potechi ポテチの手 ( a Japanese neologism derived from the English “potato chip”) is an ingenious device manufactured by Takara Tomi, that grabs potato chips, so you don’t have to.  This device features technologies like NBCS (No Broken Clutch System), NTTS (No Touch Table System) and FECS (Finger Easy Cleaning System) allows you to gently pick up potato chips without breaking them. Simply press the button and let Potechi do the rest of the job for you.

Takara Tomy displayed and demonstrated the Potechi Hand at the recent TOY Forum 2010. The Potechi comes in your choice of green, orange or brown trim and costs only 699 Yen (about $7.75) each.

Potechi ポテチの手 Videos

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Power ranger helmet fashion from years gone by.

Baseball is a popular sport in Japan and they’ve got mascots and cheerleaders just like in the US.  In the photo above, one of the Nippon Ham Fighters 北海道日本ハムファイターズ baseball team mascots gets frisky with one of the cheerleaders.

Engrish slogan on shop window of retail shop Love & Valentine.  Yes! We Pants! No Pants! No life!

In the following home video, a little Japanese baby boy in diapers imitates his salaryman dad on the keitai (mobile phone) He has the mannerisms of how many Japanese adults actually speak and act while using the phone.

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ET lands in Japan and like any other gaijin, has trouble communicating with the locals and finds himself in a bit of trouble