World traveled Japanese

Do you want see Brad Pitt, living with African Tribes, crying hard to say Good Bye, Brittney Spears with no make up, catching fish with frozen eyelashes in Antarctica, Will Smith, spending time with the most ancient Chinese family, trying to speak their language in the deepest mysterious mountain?

That is the kind of entertainment you can see here. You can see the most amazing human habitat; you will never going to see yourself in your whole life.
You will realize that you don’t have to have ATM machines, Microwaves, TV, DVD players, and Internet to lead a satisfying life. And the things you have seen so far is nothing compare to some of the amazing site you will see in this TV show.

It is called, "Ururun Taizaiki" (Diary of remarkable exploration).

This TV show is loved by many generations of Japanese for years.
It is exceptionally educational and very “Human”.

With busy daily life of paying bills, looking for bargains to buy more materialistic things, which eventually become garbage, shortening your life span by yelling at traffic, playing tactful social games at work, trying to balance lies and truth, last thing you want to see is another, ”fake things” on TV: fake image, fake body parts, fake statements, fake emotions, etc…

Sometimes the truth may not be prettiest in the dictionary of artificial world, but they exist since the biginning of time through co-evolution with nature.


It is amazing to see TV personals, like actors and musicians who are adored as almost artificial figures with perfect make-up and perfectly coordinated outfits,
Revealing such an inner character through frustrations, despair and exhilarating pleasure with lots of teas and laughter.

The truth is what everybody really wants to see; All humans foundamentally seeks genuine human emotions.





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Samurai to Salary men

Salary man is a Japanese term for a white collar worker on regular salary.
The term, And they are sometimes referred as modern samurais according
to some history experts. Typically the salary men in Japan have
to put up with horrendous working hours, less prestige,
and total submission to the company’s orders.
The company is like a clan, and to meet the obligations to their clan,
sometimes they over work themselves to death or chose to take their own life out of shame. Their roots can be traced far back as 1600. When Japan achieved internal stability, the military functions of many samurai were no longer needed and many became administrators working for the clan government. During the elimination of the samurai class in the 1800’s, many ex-samurai became white-collar workers in the government offices and industries.

In the famous book called, “Book of five rings”
written by the renown swords man, Musashi Miyamoto in 1600’s, he says a samurai should make utmost effort to achieve the highest mental state of “No Mind”, where you become able to accomplish a task without using your conscious mind.
This book is still widely read by salary men in Japan as a reference book to survive in a business world.

Cool Japanese entertainers

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Asian Kung Fu Generation-
One of the innovative Japanese band with clever lyrics.

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Odagiri Joe-
Eccentric and talented actor who can play a gay lover to a samurai hero.
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Tsukamoto Takashi- He represents a new generation of Japanese actors.

Here are a few of the notable Japanese men

Chiune Sugihra-Japanese consulate general during World War II, who issued thousands of visas to Jewish peolpe even though he was not authorized to do so. Later, he was fired from his job and lost his all the status and fortune.
His courageous act was unknown till a Jewish man whoes life was saved by Sugihara, decided to look for him almost 20 years later. Read more...It's amazing!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sugihara/readings/sugihara.html


Hayakawa Tokuji was the founder of Sharp, and he did invent a mechanical pencil in 1915 when he was only 21 years old.



Furuno Brothers-shortly after the end of World War II, to save their family from proverty with sick father, they invented the world first fish finder in 1948, and successfully commercialized their unique and reliable products since then.

Analog Fish

"Here comes an another shitty news on TV.
You are not saying anything.
I am trying to talk to you, but my voice is not reaching.
I don't hear your response.
You are crying.
All alone.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
I might as just cry.

Run as hell.
Running,and running, kicking and rnning with such a speed like hell"

I still don't have any treasure, but my shits are increasing."

-Analog Fish

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Captain Straydum

Go to
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/AI/
CaptainStraydum/index.html
and click the yellow alligator logo,you can see their short video clip.
ENJOY!

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Soap Opera in US

I may not be the most qualified to talk about soap operas here in US, because I don't watch them.
Today, I turned on my TV so I coulc hear English constantly in my background while I worked.
Since I am determined to get rid of my accent and sound as native English speaker as possible, I don't have any choice, but to surround myself with that kind of environment. I briefly passed by to see what is going on the screen and as I expected I saw two perfectly beautified women ARGUING. Their perfect ness is almost unreal and makes them look more,"Bxxxxy". I remember when I didn't work and had extra time to waste by watching TV. I did try to watch some soap operas. I kind of forced myself to watch them, thinking it was a meaningful thing to do to learn American culture.
The most significant value I learned from them at that time was in order to survive in this country, you need to know how to be a BXXXX, and sincerely enjoy watching artificially beautiful people (who goes to bed with perfect make up on) arguing every day.

I wonder what kind of soap operas would be playing if they were made for men.

Japanese Anime songs

Just clik the above name and click "View Video" logo as shown here.

"Sometimes I see pieces of people who had lost their dreams, piling up like a moutain.
Sometimes, I see pieces of people who are desparately looking for God or Buddha, piling up like a mountain."

- by Captain Straydrum

This song is used in Japanese Anime "Naruto".
When did Japanese Anime songs become philosophical?
Nevertherless, songs that are played in "Naruto" are very much worth listening.
I might explore more Anime songs to deepen my thoughts.

Stem Cell Research

Does anybody know where the universe ends?
To me, stem cell research is similar to challenging the above ultimate question.All cells come from pre-existing cells, and all living organism, including plants have stem cells. Since plants and animals don't have a brain capacity to even begin investigating this question, we, humans owe to rest of the natural world to find out, and continue taking advantage of our"bizarrely advanced brain functions".

Whether "killing cells" means "killing human life" or not is up to each individual’s concept. I don't think "pretending to ignore people who are suffering from illness" is very humane thing to do.

We shouldn’t cease to advance. I won’t be living on this earth when somebody finds out where the universe ends or how did very first “cell” appear.

But someday we will.

Asian Kung fu generation

I just think he is (second one from the left)sooooooooo
adorable! I would just like to make sure he is eating his vegetables
everyday! Is he married?
This group had started out singing English songs.
I like them because their songs have full of energy and not superficial.

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