All Posts with tag "japan"

Photo taken with the big boss of Kadokawa - Shinichiro Inoue. Inoue-san joined Kadokawa as a part timer while he was still studying at university. He dropped out of school to continue as a part timer and started to make his way up the corporate ladde...

Culture Japan started off as an idea in the back of my mind while watching TV precisely this time last year on Jan 2nd 2010. The vision was to create a TV show which would focus on Japanese culture contents that would be targeted at folks overseas -...

While filming the new year special of Culture Japan at the Good Smile Company offices, I get to play about with the decoration master of Strength who you saw a bit of in the anime Black Rock Shooter.

Located in the heart of Tokyo is Ginza - a swanky modern area where a load of luxury fashion brands (Japanese and Western) can be found concentrated in and around the main Chuo Dori street. There are also a load of restaurants and coffeshops too to h...

The figure and hobby online store AmiAmi is giving away goodies to Culture Japan viewers! All you have to do is signup and leave a message below telling us which episode you watched and what you liked or disliked about it. We will choose winners at r...

Up until now, Culture Japan has been broadcast in Japan on Tokyo MX TV. From this December 17th 2010, Culture Japan Season 1 will be broadcast all over Asia on the Animax channel. Broadcast times as follows:- Singapore - 17 Dec Friday 8pm Indonesia...

In mid October 2010, the Culture Japan crew went along to the headquarters of Production IG to see what goes on behind the scenes of making hit anime titles such as Ghost in the Shell, East of Eden and recently Sengoku Basara. Today we get to take a...

This weekends Culture Japan (Saturday 4th December on Tokyo MX TV from 22:30) will be a Shibuya Tour with the most sweetsome actress and model Elly Otoguro (twitter). We go to cover Shibuya 109, Sanzenri Chemist (the one that's been there since the e...

Tonight's Culture Japan is an AFAX special - should let folks re-live the awesome 3 day event and serve as a taster for those who didn't manage to attend. Cant wait for AFA 2011! Today's show features:- Super Sonico JAM Project SCANDAL Angela...

Looks like my job now involves me manufacturing dolls ^^; More about the whole process soon including the sculpting, molds, slush molding, painting, joints and all the other steps needed to create the little ones. BTW, is there an anime or game chara...

Today we are doing some filming for Culture Japan with the Sega Sammy Group at a Pachinko parlor in Ikebukuro. I have with me (from left to right) the lovely Minori Kawahara [河原実乃梨], Mao Kozuka [小塚 麻央] and Arisa Matsui [松井ありさ]. The 3 of...

Filming for Culture Japan at Yashio High School to cover their Kyudo (Japanese archery) after school activities. One of the things I admire about Japanese students is the way they spend time after school hours. Many of them practice the Bukatsu [部活...

Yikes. Looks like I left it another month since the last installment of A Week in Tokyo. Have completely lost track of time and find myself regularly looking up the current day of week/date/month ^^; What century is this? Anyway, been constantly thi...

Now that our car has been Itarized, I is being in need of some bodyguards to look after it. C-Zone where in town the other day and said that they would do the job. From the left we have Yume Yamamoto, Aya Ikeda and Shizuka Kitamura.

After working for many moons at Internet companies like Amazon and Microsoft, I decided to focus on web development when I left corporate life to set up a small company called Mirai in 2007. Was initially consulting for companies like Disney and Colu...

Filming for Culture Japan at the headquarters of Production IG with the President and CEO Mitsuhisa Ishikawa [石川 光久] - the man responsible for bringing us historical titles like Patlabor, Ghost in the Shell and many other more that have influence...

We previously had a brief look at some of my Ninja Training at Edo Wonderland in Nikko but today want to go through all the training necessary to become a ninja in 7 hours. This photo taken during the last stage of my training where I needed to remem...

Have always wanted to have our trusty March given the Ita-treatment for many moons now but didn't know how to go about making it happen. One of the Culture Japan production members just happened to know a man with a dog and before I knew it our car w...

Today we take a look at the studio filming of Culture Japan Season 1 Episode 3. Our guests for today are Milky Holmes - seiyuu (voice actresses) for the game and anime. From my right in pink is Suzuko Mimori [三森 すずこ], in yellow is Sora Tokui [徳...

Taking a 5 min break from Culture Japan filming and production to post part two of the cultural festivities at Tokyo Kokusai Metropolitan High School [東京都立国際高等学校]. This time round we get to see more of the performances they had including th...

Was at Tokyo Kokusai Metropolitan High School [東京都立国際高等学校] the other day for more Culture Japan filming. Today we have a lookie at the Cultural Festival "Bunkasai" [文化祭] which takes place at most schools across Japan once a year in Autum...

The last of the 2010 Summer festival (Matsuri) [祭] photos coupled with some snaps taken when filming last week at Himonya Matsuri - one of the biggest festivals in Meguro. My co-host today is the lovely Yuri Takeda [竹田有里] - a TV reporter and jou...

The Volks Store in Akihabara - has everything from Gundam, mecha, figures, garage kits, plushies, dolls and equipment n tools for folks who want to make their own stuff. Get off at Akihabara station and ask anybody where the Radio Kaikan is which is...

On Wednesday 22 September, we recorded the studio part of Culture Japan episode 1 and 2 at the Tokyo MX headquarters. We'll be in the studios every 2 weeks with more guests from the Japanese Pop Culture world. For episode #1 and #2, we had the pleasu...