Draw your favorite anime character!
In this clip, a Saturday morning news program brings up the debate over the construction of an 11.7 billion yen Manga Museum. To keep things entertaining, they skip the details and just ask random people on the street to draw their favorite anime characters:
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Categories: Otaku & Anime
Anime Bankers
An elite squad of anime heroes will protect your money if you use SBI Net Bank:
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Samurai vs. Baseball
A Japanese swordsman takes down a 130km/h fastball:
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Categories: Japanese TV
Recognizing brain death in Japan
A big change for organ transplants in Japan:
The Lower House, by a 263-167 vote Thursday, passed a bill to (1) recognize brain death as actual death and (2) allow organ transplants from a brain-dead person of any age if his or her family members approve and if the person had not openly rejected the possibility of becoming a donor.
Previously, it had been pretty much impossible for children to get organ transplants in Japan, and the only option was to travel to countries such as the United States for medical care. This new law might help resolve this problem.
As part of its coverage of the new law, FTV sent some reporters to the streets of New York to see what Americans think of the issue:
According to the announcer, 90% of the people asked thought that brain death is the same as death.
Read more about the organ donation issue at Mutantfrog Travelogue. For a viewpoint that isn’t so pleased, check out this Mainichi editorial about how the “law must go further to protect donors.”
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Categories: General Japan
Video: Cat wears a wig
Forcing a cat that looks like Wilford Brimley to wear a wig (from tomomama3):
Other videos in the same series include:
Cat made to sit at a table as if it was eating soba…
Cat enjoys beer and gyoza…
Dozing off on the sofa…
More sitting at a table…
and Santa Cat!
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Categories: Animal Videos
Shave the Bears!
A girl discovers a bear in the forest. He is so hot that he is shaving off a lot of his hair. The girl helps him with some of the hair he cannot reach:
This commercial is apparently an advertisement showing how Nisshinbo cares about global warming and the environment.
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