Tokyo’s famous Ueno Zoo恩賜上野動物園 (in Taito, Tokyo) is located in Ueno Park, a large and popular urban park that also has museums, a small amusement park and other attractions. Every year one of the more comical sights in Tokyo is when Ueno Zoo performs an escaped animal drill. A zoo worker dresses up in an animal costume and mimicks the behavior of the animal out of his enclosure while other zoo workers try to capture him.
It’s not just Ueno Zoo but other zoo’s in Tokyo that hold similar drills practicing the capturing of a tiger, rhino, monkey, zebra, rhinoceros and other animals that might make a break for freedom! Read more...
Japanese company Yakult ヤクルト is well known in Japan and Asia for its probiotic milk-like product made by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk with a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei Shirota.
Yakult was created in 1935 by Minoru Shirota a graduate of the Medical School of Kyoto University in 1930. After its introduction in Japan and Taiwan, Yakult was first sold in Brazil in 1966, due to the large number of Japanese immigrants in the country, and today is sold in 31 countries around the world.
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Having trouble finding the right Japanese girlfriend or boyfriend? Finding the right one is difficult in any country but if you live in Japan, you can always head to Kyoto’s Jishu Shrine (built by Shogun Iemitsu in 1633) tucked away behind Kiyomizudera Temple which is the home of the famous Love Stones (koiuranai no ishi).
The shrine receives alot of visitors because this is where the god of love and marriage (Okuninushi-no Mikoto) is enshrined. The shrine does a brisk trade in Omamuri (amulets) that promise to help “for love knot”, “for good marriage”, “for love chance”. The Love Stones are a pair of rocks set in the ground about 6 metres apart. If you can successfully walk from one stone to the other with your eyes closed you will be lucky in love. Read more...
The neon signs for the big pachinko parlors near the west exit of Shinjuku Station in Toko are pretty darn impressive. This one advertises “Jumbo Pachinko”
For fans of hot Japanese gravure idol, Mika Inagaki 稲垣実花, here are more photos and videos of this hot babe. Read more...
Sumo the traditional Japanese sport in the 1930′s – the ceremony, the crowds, the excitement – only the big modern stadium and TV cameras are missing!
For fans of Mayu Oya (Mayu Ohya) 大矢真夕, we’ve more more photos and videos of this super sexy Japanese race queen (including a set of her in OL (office lady) cosplay). Read more...
Tokyo at night really glows with all the lights and neon signs. The following is a short film by Jonathan Bensimon and Jonas Bell Pasht called Tokyo/Glow which follows an illuminated man (in a special suit) as he embarks on an adventure through the streets of Tokyo. It was shot on location in Tokyo using thousands of individual digital stills and lots of special effects.
Like Akemi Katsuki 香月明美 and Akane Soma 相馬茜, Chie Tanaka 田中千絵 is another Japanese model/actress who has become a big celebrity in Taiwan.
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while the Japanese version looks like this (^_^). Since hiragana, katakana and kanji can be used to create faces, the variations of kaomoji are numberless.