Paul Johannessen is an Australian media production creative professional who’s living in Tokyo, made this amazingly documented video about the situation in the Ishinomaki city, one of the major affected cities by the March 2011 tsunami.
Via: Japan Probe
After almost 28 months, the 1/1 scale Gundam returned to Odaiba. The life-size statue is being rebuilt at Diver City Tokyo, a complex under construction on the island by Mitsui Fudosan and Fuji TV. Darwinfish105 “Gundam videographer” posted several other videos chronicling the reconstruction process.
Details:
Camera : Pentax K-5
Lens : Pentax DA15 F4 ED AL Limited / Pentax DA18-55mmF3.5-5.6AL WR
Camera : Panasonic DMC-GH2
Lens : Limux G Vario 100-300mm
Music : Broken Star by LukHash(SH music)
[YouTube Link]
Recommended to watch in full screen HD.
Via: Darwinfish105 Blog
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A map shows the most well-known places, people, products, and events all over Japan. The map also shows some of the main exports coming out from South and North Korea, China, and Russia.
Here’s the full list:
Russia: Red bear
China: Cheongsam woman, poisonated jiaozi, Guilin (atificially painted), rainbow-color contaminated river
North Korea: Doesn’t need explanation
South Korea: Contaminated kimchi, Pepero, F5 keys (cyber attack), Pepsi logo on Liancourt
Hokkaido: Cape Soya, crab, clione, seal, salmon, “110 km to Jusco” billboard, Hanabatake Farm (cow), Melon Dog of Yubari, kombu kelp, kazunoko, Shiroi Koibito (local cookie), squid.
Akita: Namahage hanging himself, referring to the highest suicide rate
Iwate: Ozawa Ichiro
Miyagi: beef tounge
Yamagata: Shinjo mat killing ijime incident, cherry
Fukushima: This is indeed the nuclear plant, but it is also the Internet meme parodying Asahi Kasei Hebel House ad.
Tochigi: Internet meme of the “yankee” boy who said there’s nothing interesting in Tochigi.
Gunma: Internet meme describing Gunma as the “wild uncivilized world”.
Saitama: Saitama Saitamaa! meme
Tokyo: Yaruo who is stocking up foods after 3/11.
Kanagawa: Dim sum (shumai) in Yokohama Chinatowan, Yokohama Minatomirai
Shizuoka: Tea from water tap, Mount Fuji
Yamanashi: Takeda Shingen
Toyama: Scene from “true tears”, as well as the odango hair of the “YuruYuri” character (Both are the anime located in Toyama)
Ishikawa: Godzilla Matsui, Wajima lacquerware
Aichi: Morizo and Kikkoro (Aichi Expo mascots), miso
Fukui: Pana Wave cult
Shiga: Otaku cosplayer who visits Toyosato, a location of the anime K-on!
Nara: Sento-kun
Wakayama: The Sea Sheperd in the bloody coast
Osaka and Tsushima: Notice Nida (Korean cats) are with feces, referring to hongtak (Thornback fermented in human feces, a local dish in Mokpo).
Osaka/Hyogo: Kansai airport island in the position of Awaji Island.
Kyoto: Kinkaku-ji and Kyoto Tower
Okayama: “Okayama is the greatest futuristic metropolis!” meme, Yatsuhaka-mura (horror novel/movie)
Tottori: “Tottori is a huge sand dune with monsters” meme, exaggerating the real Tottori Sand Dune
Hiroshima: Hiroshima Carp, A-bomb Dome and origami cranes. Skull is from Barefoot Gen manga.
Shimane: Izumo Shrine. I don’t get Oki Islands.
Kagawa: Nothing but Udon
Tokushima: Yoshino River, which Kagawa and Tokushima always have disputes over its water
Ehime: Mikan/Iyokan oranges
Kochi: Bonito
Fukuoka: Crimes (gangs and burakumins)
Saga: The land no one notices
Sapporo: Hatsune Miku
Nagasaki: Black Ship
Oita: Prefectural police whose (very peaceful) activities are always reported on the local newspaper
Kumamoto: Bossan, a man who became the another meme for no apparent reason
Kagoshima: A snowman refers to the fact Kagoshima does get snow falls.
Hakodate: ika/Squid
Izu peninsula: green for all of the wasabi that you get with your trips down there for omiyage.
Via: Japan Probe
Visual Scene fans made a short video promoting and demonstrating what Visual Scene magazine all about.
The Steins;Gate time machine in Akihabara was the headline of most of the anime blogs and Japan culture admirers alike. Unfortunately it was there just for few days, but Darwinfish105 did it again, he made an amazing time lapse of the crashed satellite.
Details:
Camera: PENTAX K-5
Lens: Pentax DA15 F4 ED AL Limited
Music: Air For Trance (Original Mix) by Jonathan Araldi
If you have watched Steins;Gate or played the game then you know what this is about. The crashed satellite (time machine) that appeared in the game and the anime adaptation has been recreated at the actual Radio Kaikan building in Akihabara.
The recreation project was made for the Aki-Fes @ Radi-Kan event which started today.
Via: ANN
Images from: Akiba PC Hotline
Good Smile Company transformed its Matsuda’s cafe into a Fate/Zero’s theme till the 25th of December. It seems it’s a Fate/Zero’s year, I just posted about the Ita-bus spotted at the Machi ★ Asobi event and now a cafe been made by GSC. I watched the first episode and I loved the theme and the whole work of the anime, so no wonder it’s going to be a hit all over the world.
Source: Mikatan who also has more photos and info about the cafe.
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