KFC of Japan is very quirky. Part of a social media promotion, KFC introduced the fried chicken iPhone 5s case. Who wants one? I personally prefer a banana phone.
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.hack fans rejoice! One of the few things we can get excited about nowadays is the mobile game Guilty Dragon, which borrows heavily from the .hack lore. While there was a English localization supposedly in the works, fans got snubbed again by CyberConnect2. Thankfully a few hardcore .hack fans came together and translated most of the menu. Lots of other items are still untranslated, but this makes the game a bit more user-friend to us who can't read a lick of Japanese.
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Yesterday marked the Autumn Equinox and Japan celebrated it with a day off! Golden Week is also a well known holiday outside of Japan, where most Japanese citizens have April 29th-May 6th off to celebrate a variety of things! However, there are some lesser known national holidays that I want to spotlight. They are pretty interesting and very unique to Japan - and doesn't involve a jolly fat man.
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Ever wanted to try a Pika burger or Pikachu-themed curry? Well too late - the limited time cafe closed at the end of August. Fortunately there's video of all the cute food you won't be able to eat. OK I will stop being mean. Check the video tour out by one of my favorite Japan vloggers - Sharla in Japan!
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Cool post via Reddit and Deep Kyoto shows an image of a tree, nicknamed Yūryu no matsu (遊龍の松 “Playful Dragon Pine”), growing horizontally! The pic was taken at Yoshiminedera, a mountain temple in Kyoto.
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I bet you don't know too much about the DJ scene in Japan... OK maybe I'm projecting a bit. I didn't know a whole lot, which is why I'm excited to share this interview! Tony and I connected a few months ago via email regarding a video I posted of a street musician I stumbled upon in Kyoto last year. I quickly found out he was a DJ in Japan under the pseudonym Tony Booya for the DJ group Volcanic Gang. My own curiosity got the best of me and I really wanted to know what the DJ scene was like in Japan compared to the rest of the world. Cue my barrage of questions - enjoy! Click Read Full Story to check out the entire interview with Tony.
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My favorite Japanese British dude is at it again with another unique video straight out of Japan. He explains the scenario:
Imagine walking into a room to see your Japanese friends doing this...
To celebrate their friend's upcoming wedding, a few guys got together and combined a leaf blower, a balloon and some serious ambition; this was the surprising result of that winning combination.
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A math book created for a Thai college is being recalled after it was revealed the cover was of Japanese porn star Mana Aoki sneakily disguised as a teacher. It must have been her convincing mattress actress skillsets that confused the book publisher into thinking she was indeed a math teacher.
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The Tokyo Game Show, Japan's largest gaming convention open to the public, kicked off yesterday. And with that begins the onslaught of trailers. Final Fantasy XV has been in development hell for quite some time. Luckily there is light at the end of the tunnel - check out the trailer! A demo of the game is set to release sometime in March bundled with Final Fantasy Type-0 HD's release in the U.S.
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