List of posts with the tag: Japan

A fire is reported to be burning in the turbine building of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, NPP, in Miyagi prefecture in the aftermath of the strongest ever earthquake to hit Japan. The NPP is owned by Tohoku Elec’s. Japan authorities have announced they turned off 11 nuclear units without causing any damage. The country…

The first waves to hit Hawaii from a tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake off Japan have washed up onshore at Waikiki, with no initial reports of any damage. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre reported wave changes at Waianae Harbour around 3.24am on Friday (0024 AEDT Saturday), shortly before the relatively small waves were seen…

A catastrophic earthquake has struck Northern Japan, 150 miles off the coast. The quake hit on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 06:25:51 UTC, with a magnitude of 8.9. The agency has issued a tsunami warning for Japan’s Pacific coast, saying tsunami waves as high as 6 meters can be expected in some areas. This is…

Lost in Translation is my favorite movie from Sofia Coppola. We all knew the director (Yutaka Tadokoro) was giving Bob much more information than what his interpreter (Akiko Takeshita) was translating for him, but I never knew the actual English translation of what Tadokoro was saying. Below is the translation of the scene.

Magibon, the famous vloger from Youtube (MRirian) appeared on a huge sign outside of Yodobashi Akiba… that was fun. Yodobashi Akiba is part of Yodobashi Camera Co., which is a chain store mainly selling electronic products. Currently, there are 21 stores in Japan. It also maintains two online stores in China; one with a limited…

Google Japan took an interesting approach to show the speed of their browser …with dominos. There’s nothing quite like the domino effect. Conclusion … Google Japan offices have fast internet connection!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgJ5h4XJHY While your at the vending machine, can you pick me up a Snickers and a crab? Check out these bizarre vending machines in China and Japan. They sell live frozen crabs.

Two Japanese girls of 13 years old sing The Elements, a Japanese remix of Tom Lehrer’s song: The Elements wich is also a remix of the original song: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General. This videoclip is hidden in every copy of the iPad app: The Elements in Japanese.

In this video we see a little bit of the presentations and video game stands at the Tokyo Game Show, held in Japan this week. We also see some videos of the Japanese Booth Girls that were excellent models for each game. Minute 4:53 We can even see children playing Beach Volley in Kinect… it…

Woow, this ad is from JAPAN. Great music, car, led lights and a great laptop.

Excellent video done by @AkiraReiko in a recent visit to Tokyo, Japan. The author says: This is just a quick video I did while I was in Tokyo this last March, everything was shot the same afternoon when I got there. Shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, edited in Final Cut Pro. No color…

Daito Manabe from Tokyo Japan went to Campus Party Mexico 2010. He is an artist, sound designer, programmer, VJ and DJ, director of Rhizomatiks and 4nchor5 La6. He is also a mathematician and an engineer. He works with big companies like Sony and Nike. He showed a little bit of the dance performance with leds…