In Japan People Dance for Chewing Gum

What do you get when you mix two super famous people, dancing, 1 million yen, catchy music, chewing gum, a brilliant marketing

GN-X III A-Laws Gundam 00 Figure

My third 1/144 scale Gundam figure, a GN-X III A-Laws arrived just before the long Easter weekend. I put it together last Frid

Jamaipanese on Youtube

No I am not starting a channel just yet but for months I am been thinking about it. I am not sure what I will make videos of j

Shangri-La – First Impressions

Shangri-la was the wild card pick on my list of interesting anime premiering in spring 2009 that I will be watching. After onl

Japan’s Shinkansen – The Bullet Train

The BBC’s website has been a very important resource for me over the years for not only news related to Japan but throug

Control a Robot with your thoughts

Honda’s research and development arm, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu Co

Gundam 00 Season Two Review

The second season of Gundam 00 was recently completed. If you read my Gundam 00 season 1 review you would know that I enjoyed

Dragonball Evolution is coming

It has been released for a while in Japan and other countries but for us in the west the torment is slow and never ending. Fir

From my other Blogs – Ninth Edition

This is the ninth edition of a monthly recap of interesting posts from my photography blog and my video game blog. Eyeshrine.c

Interesting Spring 2009 Anime

It’s new anime season once again and for the last few months I have been keeping touch with all new the anime that are s

The Tokyo VR Project Discontinued?

A year and a half ago I blogged about a project that was underway to create an online VR recreation of Tokyo using 360 degree

BBC website offers a touch of Japanese

I recently surfed into an unexpected but interesting and very useful Japanese learning resource on the BBC website called A To

Twouble with Twitters Hilarious Video

For the last few days almost everyone has been tweeting about and linking to a hilarious video on Youtube called Twouble with

Zombie Loan – An Anime that sucks

It has taken me almost 2 years to watch the first 7 episodes of Zombie Loan for a reason. Since blogging my first impressions

Embassy of Japan Helps Childcare Facility

Japan through it’s Embassy in Kingston has donated millions of dollars to various government projects, outreach programs

Akihabara@DEEP – the Otaku J-Dorama

Akihabara@DEEP is a very interesting drama and the third series I have seen through to the end. The series combines action and

Japansoc.com – Japan Social Community

Japansoc.com is a digg style Japan themed social bookmarking site I have been a member of for over a year now. Japansoc is sho

Usain Bolt donates signed shoes to charity

Usain Bolt is still riding high on his multiple record breaking sprinting performance from the Beijing Olympics last year and

Japanese Commercial – Inochi-kun!

Commercials appearing on Japanese television can be quite…how can I say this…. “entertaining”. I have

Gundam Wing – Heavy Arms Kai Figure

I may be enjoying the second season of most current Gundam series called Gundam Double O but the Gundam Wing Series is one of

Katakana Natto Challenge Lost

I boldly challenged Chris when he jokingly tweeted an open Katakana study challenge on iKnow (now Smart.fm). Unfortunately I c

Watchmen was not as Bad as I was told

It opened a week later than the states on my little island but yesterday after work I went to see the first showing of the hig

2009 Boys and Girls Champs Buzz Building

Track and field has always been big in Jamaica but with the performance of Jamaica athletes in recent years, culminating in ou

Japanese Economy Stimulus – Free Money

Next to the United States of America, Japan’s economy has taken a massive hit and continues to nosedive almost everyday