Nakizumo (lit. crying sumo) is a traditional Japanese festival with 400-years of history. The event, believed to bring good health to the babies, is held annually in temples across Japan where the kids would face-off each other to see who’s crying the soonest (and loudest)…
The above video [credits to garyjpn@youtube for the upload] is probably from Hiroshima in 2009; there are other slightly different format in other places, including in Tokyo where some real sumo wrestlers were involved.
Better than Garfield… [video credits to tomomama3@youtube]
Eating beer cans, swallowing swords, wielding light saber, lesbian kiss, fire show, wacky performance, loud music, booze, dance, girls… that’s what you are going to see from the below video… [by ronindave@youtube, via Japundit]
Founded in October 2005 by ex-French drag queen Adrien Le Danois, Tokyo Decadance had the goal to mix all the most creative, flashy, crazy, exaggerated, extreme, bizarre styles of the Tokyo streets.
The event is now the rendezvous of gothic, cyberpunk, fetish, manga heroine, lolitas, yamanbas, ko gyaru, drag queen, punk, Tokyo jet-set, partymonsters, and also salaryman and ‘normal people’.
The wild party is occasionally on tour in some European cities beside the monthly show in Japan [check out Decadance' Myspace]
Japanese commercial (2008) featuring popular model Yuri Ebihara, often referred to as Ebi-chan by her fans. You won’t know what’s the ad is about until the last few seconds; give it a good guess while enjoying her overloaded cuteness…
I’ll explain a bit about the senselessness at the first comment.
[video credits: chefprotoss@youtube]
Mikoshi is a large portable shrine used in traditional Japanese festivals; but the folks at Akihabara, Japanese otaku centre, had different ideas.
Instead of the traditional setup, the folks created a mikoshi in late April decorated with a PC, anime figurines, manga, video games and misc gadgets.
A mini-festival was then held with female cosplayers (mostly) parading the mikoshi to “drive away the economic downturn and unpleasant incidents.”
Probably not an official record, but it’s amazing how fast the Japanese dude was at gulping down the bottle of isotonic drink. Video from “Food Battle Club”, a Japanese competitive eating show… [via karan90@youtube]
English subbed Japanese music video “Rescue” by pop group KAT-TUN, theme song for same title 2009 TV drama starring Yuichi Nakamaru (the beatbox guy)…
The drama follows the story of Daichi and his fellow rescue team trainees as they grow as rescue workers, as people, and as men.
Chinese-Tibetan artist Alan Dawa Dolma (known as alan in Japan) became the first singer from China to top the Japanese Oricon sales chart, albeit for just a day on April 13th, with her 9th Japanese single “River of Eternity”.
The title track is the theme song for Chinese movie “Red Cliff 2″, premiered in Japan on April 10th. Official music video below…
The single peaked at 3rd spot on Oricon weekly chart, also a new record for mainland Chinese artist, previously held by Faye Wong (9th spot) with “Eyes on Me” in 1999.
