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I previously linked to this commercial through Twitter, but it has since been submitted to me repeatedly so I thought it best to share again here. Warning – might be a bit gross for some: 

I am sure many of you have seen the Zuiikin videos in the past, but Fuji TV who owns the copyright keeps requesting Youtube to take them down. Someone recently sent in a link to the classic video “Take Anything You Want!” which reminded me how great they are: Here is “I Have a Bad [...]

At over 12 million views, some of you are sure to have seen this video before but I wanted to share:

Translation of intro speech: “How many seconds does it take you to take off your clothes? Today, I will take off my clothes within 10 seconds. These are regular clothes by the way. Here goes…”

Some foreigners placed a small video camera on a conveyor belt in a “Kaiten Sushi” restaurant in Japan, and filmed the customers and the kitchen. I thought it was fascinating to watch everyone’s reactions:  Here is a quick transcript of the kitchen scene:  Woman in brown: “Hey, what is this? The camera is rollling.” Older [...]

Just in case you all haven’t seen this video, I give you the now infamous Korean Drummer (starts 15 seconds in):  In case you are interested, there is a whole backstory on the drummer at: KoreanDrummer.com

The Roomba has some competition out of Korea – the iClebo robot vacuum. This is the English Engrish promotional video:  Even though it is spelled iClebo, he keeps on pronouncing it “iCrebo”. Weird.

I ran across this video of ABBA singing Tiger on Japanese TV back in the 70′s. The Japanese dancers take up more real estate up front than the band – it seems like it was filmed for them. I personally found the dancing pretty funny: 

I think this is a cool application for the Segway. I wonder about the liability issues though – I can see people falling over when they hit the side of a hill (see the scene from 0:26 in). They probably have people sign a waiver beforehand.

On one Japanese TV show, Obama does some cheesy magic and one pretty cool card trick with a lemon. Note: The Japanese love Obama so I believe that this TV show was not meant to be mean spirited or racist (although some people might deem it a bit insensitive?). Found by way of the excellent blog [...]