I would like to dedicate this short post to our good friend Hashi. Little Hashi has not heard the fantasicality that is Polysics (the poor, poor boy), and I figured if someone as cool and well internetted as he had not heard the wondrous sounds of Polysics, there may be other poor souls like him [...]
Or perhaps not. You be the judge. For today’s Saturday Timewaster, I take you to the greatest non-watery slide I’ve ever seen. In a land where there are still teeter-totters, swings, and other supposedly “dangerous” playground equipment, this stands out above all the rest. Welcome to the roller slide of Naikai-Machi’s Central Park (中井町の中央公園).
No you. Established on September 4th, 1948 as Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. of Japan, Nissin now encourages its country to boil itself. But why? They already have two museums solely dedicated to noodle worship – what more could they want? Do they think their long history of entertaining commercials has earned them such blind [...]
No soda? FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Each and every day billions upon billions of office workers waste away hours looking at funny captioned pictures and crudely drawn comics online. One of the more popular categories of said distractions is that of rage comics. If you’re unfamiliar with them, head on over to Memebase to see how rage comics [...]
Sorry, Hulu tends to only be viewable in America :( … use a proxy? Okay, fine, normally we do Timewaster posts on Saturday… but, today’s Timewaster post does at least come from Saturday Night Live (keyword Saturday), so that’s gotta count for something. If you watched this week’s episode of SNL, you’ll have seen this [...]
Yo ガリレオガリレイ, Imma let you finish, but Galileo Galilei was the best scientist of all time. I stumbled upon Galileo Galilei (ガリレオガリレイ) earlier this week while watching Mobile Suit Gundam AGE because they do the opening song for the anime, Ashita e (朝へ). I instantly fell in love, looked them up on YouTube, fell even [...]
Osaka Station (大阪駅), the third largest train station in the world, has undergone enormous renovations over the last couple of years, expanding, building up, and improving what’s already there. Part of that renovation included the installation of an awesome water clock. What makes this clock unique is that it release organized drops of water to [...]
No, that’s not a stuffed animal staring you in the face. That’s Shunsuke, a 9 year old pomeranian from Japan. Shunsuke is sweeping the internet with boatloads of cute and he simply cannot be contained. He even published book as well as a calendar on his own. I’ve even heard rumors that he plans to [...]
The movie industry has been trying to crack down on piracy in the last couple of years, trying to stop people from downloading movies illegally and recording movies in the theater. Some movie theaters even play anti-piracy commercials before a movie nowadays. Leave it up to Japan to make the wackiest anti-piracy commercial ever, featuring [...]
Welcome back to another Saturday Timewaster! I hope the next couple hours of your Saturday are clear (otherwise, you’ll need to clear your schedule and cancel that totally unimportant appointment). This post is all about Japanese cat videos… The best there is on the web (at least in my opinion).
