Ever wonder what that Asian looking tattoo you saw on the smoking hot babe last night meant? Love, peace, beautiful? How about “Crazy Diarrhea”? You would be surprised to find out that there may be more than a few people have written truly stupid things on themselves.
Category: Japan
Three Taiwanese Travelled in Tokyo
This is a fine example on how to use Flash the right way. Here is a Flash slide show timed to the beat of the background music that chronicaels the adventures of three friends from Taiwan as they tour Japan.
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( Found on Sushicam )
Japanese and Thai Slang Database
Kitto Katsu
I saw this on the BBC tonight and just could not pass it up.
Japan snaps up ‘lucky’ Kit Kats
Also mentioned on Metropolis:
” The sale of lucky charms sky-rocketed as high school students prepared to sit their university entrance exams, with Kit Kat chocolate bars (kitto katsu meaning something like “it’s a sure thing I’m going to beat this game”) proving particularly popular, including a chocolate bar designed to recall the calm of matcha tea.”
Metropolis – Lucky charms
LED Lighting
I found a Japanese page on energy efficent home lighting fixtures that use LEDs. I’d like to be able to buy lights like these from Homedepot. I bought a set of LED Christmas lights for my brother, I’ll have to pick up a set for myself next year.
Do it Ene it with the lighting of conserving?
I found a few more links to LEDs in the home. The Luxeon lamps are just darn bright, I’d like a few of them. The second link is a great review of high brightness LEDs and other LED applications. Dans Data is a pretty handy site for finding info about stuff.
Luxeon High Brightness LEDs
LED Light Roundup
Import Toys
Import toys for fun and profit? If your serious about collecting Japanese toys you might want to visit here. I’ll have to look into this, I might open my own shop one day. 🙂
Godzilla, Dragon Ball, Chogokin, Transformers, Tomica, Nohohon stationery