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Japanese TV programmes tend to fall into two broad categories: 1. celebrities eating food, and 2. everything else.

Kita Yoshio’s Tomorrow; The World’s Unluckiest Man, and his 11-day Miracle

Tired of missing all your favorite movies and TV shows from back home? This handy guide shows you exactly how to get them online.

Michael Cucek at his Shisaku blog had a great post a few days ago about how “Media Shifts Make Japan a Harder Read". It is vital to understand where a media organization is coming from ideologically in order to understand the way in which their products (in the form of news stories, editorials and opinions) should be taken.

The best Japanese crossdressers, keep your eyes open when you're in Tokyo ;)

18 year old top Japanese baseball draft pick Yusei Kikuchi was recently interviewed by TV announcer Rio Hirai. Ms. Hirai has a habit of wearing very revealing clothing to interviews. Needless to say, Kikuchi couldn't resist getting an eyeful.

After becoming the Terminator but before becoming the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger does television commercials in Japan. The vid in the post is a collection of around 30 Japanese television commercials Arnie did in the 90’s.

Japan's big-name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3-D for launch next year.

The Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) requires you to pay money for the priviledge of receiving their crummy electromagnetic waves, and the NHK tax collector recently paid me a visit....

Just a bit of nostalgia...

Monkey is a 1978 television series that was performed by Japanese actors in China and then dubbed into English.

Cultishly popular in the UK and Australia. Not sure if it was ever formally released in the States.

Gachapin, the popular Japanese kids TV character, has already amassed over 8,800 followers in just 1 week since starting to use Twitter.

For some reason, the Japanese love rankingu (ranking), and there are TV shows that go out of their way to find interesting topics and organize them into ordered lists for you.

If there's one thing the Japanese appear to be obsessed with when it comes to game shows and advertising, it's attractive women in bikinis. Doing strange things. Like sliding down a bowling alley sideways while wearing a bikini for a Ladies Beauty Bowling competition. All to promote a hair removal product.

You thought he was gone, but Mr. Hard Gay has been on TV – with bikini girls!

As I have said in the past, I am a real fan of the Intel Centrino 2 commercials on Japanese TV.

I don't know if these are adaptations of Intel commercials from other countries, but they are more of a joy to watch than much of the fare being offered up by Japanese broadcasters.