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HYPER Culture
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Tuesday, 01 February 2011 09:23 |
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Today is "Television Broadcast Commemoration Day" in Japan. On Feb 2 1953, NHK, of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, began regular TV broadcasting from a single TV studio in Tokyo, although it had been conducting 'experimental' broadcasts, one a week for three hours a day, since 1950 in its Science & Technical Research Laboratories. Read more about the history of television in Japan here.
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HYPER Culture
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Tuesday, 01 February 2011 08:15 |
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Japan's got an amazingly rich diverse pop and leisure culture that's increasingly popular overseas. But Japan is a country where people work as hard as they play. Or maybe more. A recent survey carried out by Cross Marketing, a research company in Tokyo, showed that 60% of working people felt that they did not have enough free time to relax and enjoy leisure pursuits after work.
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HYPER Cuisine
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Monday, 31 January 2011 13:16 |
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Ramen noodles are one of Japan’s favourite comfort-fast foods, complete with their own magazines, rankings, and TV programmes. The ramen market is booming, and there’s always demand for something new. Which is probably why Yahoo! Japan has teamed up with Maruchan, one of Japan’s top manufacturers of instant ramen noodles, to run a competition pitting ramen noodle dishes from noodle bars around the country against each other in a multi-stage event that will see the winner become part of the permanent Maruchan instant noodle product line-up.
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HYPER Cool
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Monday, 31 January 2011 11:25 |
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Japan Post announced they will be selling limited edition stamps featuring characters from the popular anime ‘ONE PIECE’ from 23 March. The stamps are the latest in an ongoing series of collectable stamps entitled the ‘Anime Hero Heroine Series’.
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HYPER Cuisine
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Sunday, 30 January 2011 09:51 |
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Leading confectionery maker Meiji has announced the launch of a brand new, Willy Wonka-esque flavour-changing gum, Kawaru Xylish. Kawaru means change in Japanese. This brand new 'concept gum', part of the popular Xlyish series which includes flavours such as 'Hyper Cool Mint' and 'Mr. Grape', will hit the shelves on February 15 this year.
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HYPER Cool
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Friday, 28 January 2011 17:09 |
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On 26 January, the Fukuoka Prefectural Government announced that they would start selling two types of uniform from the anime movie ‘Rebuild of Evangelion’, from on 31 January. Each type of uniform will retail at 29,000 yen (approx. 220.00 GBP). The uniforms were designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer of Evangelion, and are identical to those seen in the anime.
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FOCUS
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Friday, 28 January 2011 00:00 |
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There are certain Japanese words that everyone seems to know: samurai, kimono, karaoke, sushi. And ninja. Despite being a secretive band of highly trained agents, about whom little reliable historical source material remains, the ninja have, in modern times, achieved worldwide notoriety, a level of fame that would have made their job – consisting primarily of espionage, sabotage and assassination – extremely difficult at the time. They’ve even got their own (highly addictive) app now.
So we’ve seen the cartoon, bought the T-shirt, ninja-folded the t-shirt, and played the jumping app on the train until our thumbs ache. We’ve got a pretty solid idea of the appearance and weaponry of the ninja – albeit influenced more by popular culture than historical accuracy. Maybe we even know that ninja is written as 忍者、with the kanji for shinobu 忍, which has implications of stealth and encroachment and clandestineness (all of which are excellent ninja skills) and mono 者, which means person. But how much do we know about who they were and what became of them?
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