If you want to be safe against the potential attacks by aliens, enemy robots, and miscellaneous evil forces, move to Tokyo. There, a 59-feet Gundam will be guarding the city starting from this July.......

Anthology films are a tough sell for various reasons.  The audience has less time to invest themselves in the characters, the filmmakers have less time to tell their stories, and the film as a whole depends on each segment working in unison.  The best anthology films invariably end up as genre pic...

I had been vaguely aware that gays are more open in Taiwan than in Japan (more active gay pride festival, spotting a very cleary labeled gay bookstore near Taiwan University), but hadn’t consciously realized quite how different things are before reading this article from yesterday’s Taip...

Cowboy Bebop is a great series, and if you’ve watched it, then you’re ready for this video, which is a kickass performance of the intro. It’s definitely different, but amazingly faithful to the studio version. From wikipedia for Tank!: “Tank!” is the opening song for th...

South by Southwest does a great job of letting attendees (and everybody else) do some homework before the shows and preview tracks by showcased bands. Here are a bunch of our faves. • The Asteroid #4 - "These Flowers of......

Sometimes you come across something on the web that is hard to resist letting others know about. Being an ongoing Tokyophile, I was alerted to these images via a couple of feeds in my Tweetdeck (a tool that lets you keep track of what's going on in your Twitterverse). If you count the surrounding pr...

Filed under: Coupes, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda, Rumormill The recent news out of Japan hasn't been good for fans of front-engine, rear-wheel-drive two-doors. First came word that Subaru and Toyota were postponing the launch of their boxer-powered RWD coupe, then the S2000 is killed off and fina...

I like guy's chest hair. Unfortunately many Japanese don't have it :-( I like this page "special chest hair cut!". Kawaii! This blog introduces Japanese beautiful factories photo. I think those photos are from this blog "days of factory moe". Factory, cave, underground and ruinlike Gunkanjima have b...

Land of the Lost This comedic remake of the classic Saturday Morning show takes some license with the material, but it's got Will Ferrell and it's got Sleestak. Where can I buy my ticket? Ferrell plays scientist Rick Marshall, who's written a book on time warps (which is particularly odd since IMDB ...

newVideoPlayer("/chinese23vid.flv", 506, 423,""); Sometimes, those boring world webcams catch something exceptional, like this one near Mount Asama, an active volcano north of Tokyo which erupted......