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She mentioned applauding by the audience at the end of a movie. I think that's a Los Angeles thing more than American. I've seen movies in a lot of different cities, LA is the only one where the audie ...

This showed up on my YouTube (how did they know I was a fan?). Looks like it's from a Japanese version of "American Idol" from 1998, two years before her first album came out: https://www.yo ...

Kamakura dono no 13 nin. I watched the first two episodes. The storytelling is quite entertaining but the pace of Taiga drama is just too slow for me. With hardly any background knowledge of the time ...

Wonder if they got the inspiration from watching "Shitmachi Rocket".

Japan plans to put man on the moon by late 2020s

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan revised the schedule of its space explora ...

Looks like the Dodgers will be retiring number 14, Gil Hodges FINALLY makes the Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame announces 2022 inductees

The Baseball Hall of Fame will officially have six more membe ...

If America can have a reality show host/con man as President, why can't the Philippines have a boxer: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58614108

Collin Morikawa isn't Japanese but Japanese/American. But between him and Matsuyama, maybe there should be a golf thread: https://www.cbssports.com/golf/news/2021-british-open-leaderboard-winner-colli ...

Shohei Ohtani first Japanese player voted to All-Star game since 2010

NEW YORK – Shohei Ohtani was named as a starter for the All-Star Game, MLB announced Thursday, making him the first Japanese ...

Everything you wanted to know about sushi but were afraid to ask: https://www.amazon.com/Oishii-History-Eric-C-Rath/dp/1789143837

I've watched the first episode of "Edo Moiselle" and it was really good! w00t!

Okada Yui is a very talented young actress indeed! Too bad she's got no luck with English fansubbers though ...

On the bright side, Trump has firmly cemented himself in history as the worst US President ever. If a President comes along worse than Trump that will mean there is no more United States of America.

For those of us that remember what Little Tokyo used to be like, this is not really news, but it looks like they're having the same problem up North: https://www.yahoo.com/news/pandemic-threatens-dest ...

Ryoko Yonekura to star in Netflix drama "The Journalist"

Tokyo, Japan (Sept 15, 2020) - Netflix, the world’s leading streaming entertainment service, announced the production of Netfl ...

The Japanese American National Museum is closed for the pandemic, but they do have a virtual site: http://www.janm.org/

The bill to revise the copyright law was approved unanimously at a plenary meeting of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet. It cleared the House of Representatives, the lower chambe ...

Speaking of remakes of American shows:

TV Asahi to do remake of American series "24"

TV Asahi will be doing a remake of the American series "24" with Toshiaki Karasawa and Y ...

^ The American version had the one-armed man, maybe the Japanese version will have the one-armed samurai. hehe

2/3 into "Kakafukaka" and I really want to shoot the male lead's kneecaps off, sigh... Shoot

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(*) before anyone starts worrying, it was just a reference to one of the last angloameri ...

"Is it okay for me to win the championship?" Said no American athlete, ever: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/28/japan-in-raptures-as-outsider-wins-sumo-contest-and-bursts-into-tea ...

"Finished" "Kakegurui" (I write "finished" 'cause actually I had no idea that the two seasons would be wrapped up and given a proper ending only in the subsequent movie, ...