Category: J-life
Tokyo’s robot town! (J-life video).
Have you been to Tokyo’s robot town? No, me neither – but lucky for us, our man in Japan, John Daub, really does live in Japan and was a little bit too interested in visiting their giant Mobile Suit Gundam on display outside a supermarket. Heck, now that’s marketing!
Japan’s best vending machine restaurant? (J-Life video).
Our man in Japan, Joe Hattab, visits what might just be Japan’s best vending machine restaurant, aka the Jihanki Shokudo Automat Diner inside Isesaki City. Because nothing says romantic like a machine re-heated burger for a couple of coins! Hmmm, tasty – and simultaneously odd and cool in the same bite.
A day in the life of a Japanese manga creator (video doc).
In Japan, the bods who create manga are known as Mangaka. This short informative video documentary follows one such Tokyo-based creator, Reiji Miyajima, the brains behind the Kanajo okarishimasu manga comic (aka ‘Rent a Girlfriend’). This video explores the chap’s weekly deadlines and gives SFcrowsnest viewers an inside look at how manga is produced in […]
All-Japan Pillow Fighting Tournament (J-Life).
In Japan, pillow-fighting is a big-money serious extreme sport – so welcome to Ito, the home of the 6th All-Japan Pillow Fighting Tournament, where pillow fights are a spectator sport, and you never take losing lying down.
Japanese mascots from hell?
Yuru-chara are cute Japanese mascot characters – and every organisation in Japan has one, however unlikely. They also offer a masterclass in creativity and terror – so, here’s ten of the oddest and most horrific creations found across the nation by our Man-n-Japan … Chris Broad.
Japan’s strangest video game arcade is closing: boo-hoo (news).
We can hardly believe it at SFcrowsnest Towers, Japan’s cyberpunk and oddly dystopian amusement arcade, Anata no Warehouse, in Kawasaki, is finally shutting its doors forever on 17th November 2019. Nooooooo.
