japan & the japanese

Trash collectors in samurai costumes took to Tokyo's streets on Wednesday, theatrically wielding garbage tongs and flicking litter left from an evening of Halloween revelry into wicker baskets on their backs. Dressed in hats and boldly patterned black-and-white tunics, the group, known as...

Any Godzilla fans out there? Favourite films? I like Tokyo S.O.S and any involving Mothra.

i heard this when i was at uni...about...9 years ago. i was studying jewellery and metalsmithing. one of my lecturers was a well known australian metalsmith, who was going to work in japan for a bit, doing lectures and stuff. anyway, he gets into japan and is pulled aside in customs by...

Just got through watching a Japanese film called Yokai Monsters or Spook Warfare (the Japanese title is Yokai daisenso). The general plot involved a Babylonian monster who escapes from a statue and invades 18th century Japan. He takes over a lord's house and starts draining people's blood. His...

This Japanses man play music to WATER ,FREEZES it ,then takes PHOTOES of the CRYSTALS(also in English transcript) http://www.hado.com Enjoy Bill.

Neat article on the Beeb today: If anyone in Japan is still unaware of the Armageddon poised to take place on Thursday, it won't be the fault of the Pana Wave Laboratory. This cult organisation - one of many in Japan - has caught the nation's attention with its prediction that a close...

I have just read and saw amazing pics of a creature called The Kappa it is part of Japanese folklore This is what the Japanese has found out so far about the strange creature, Kappa: 1) It lives in or near rivers. 2) It looks like a 5 year-old human child. 3) Its arms and legs are...

There is this village in Japan that claims that it was Jesus' brother that was actually crucified and that Jesus lived in their village and got married, had kids, had a nice happy life. For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the village. Time to go hunting!