New Yorker to mask-wearing Japanese: “You look stupid.”
A Japanese reporter wearing a mask asks a man in New York City what he thinks of wearing masks as protection against the H1N1 flu:
After telling telling the Japanese reporter he looks stupid, the New Yorker goes on to say that masks are not necessary and the media is just trying to create panic.
The news program in question conceded that masks may not be very effective at protecting people not yet infected with the flu, but they did run some tests and determine if infected people should wear masks:
Since the particles and spit seem to fly farther when one doesn’t wear a mask, they recommend that anyone showing flu symptoms wear a mask. (There was no test on the effectiveness of coughing or sneezing into one’s sleeve.)
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Categories: Japanese Food
Favorite Places in Japan
Bummed out by that last post about the least cared about places in Japan? You might want to check out the latest Japan Blog Matsuri: a collection of bloggers posting on the theme “My Favorite Place in Japan.”
[via JapanSoc]
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Categories: General Japan
Prius + Superman
I don’t think there are a great many Superman fans in Japan, but I guess he’s good enough for the new Prius commercials airing on Japanese TV:
[via Danny Choo]
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Cockroach boy band
Kincho uses a boy band in its latest commercial promoting cockroach extermination traps:
What the last line of the commercial sounds like: “Gokiburi (cockroaches) to the heaven!”
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Decoration trucks in Japan
A travel show exploring stops along the Tobu Tojo Line got off at Higashi Matsuyama to visit Sekiguchi Kougei, which specializes in painting “decoration trucks” (dekotora). Here is some footage of the kind of designs Mr. Sekiguchi creates:
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Boy glues hand to desk
A Japanese TV show featuring a variety of wacky/exciting video clips from around the world included the following clip of a kid in South Korea who glued his hand to a desk while playing with superglue:
A rescue team was called in, and after using a combination of chemicals and good ol’ fashioned prying with a screwdriver, the boy was freed!
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Categories: Japanese TV