Archive for November, 2007

Japan culture, design, tech, entame ALL ACCESS!

. Japan

These few days I had been collecting websites and blogs that talks about Japan, and the result is a lot! Maybe because it is so much to talk about Japan like entertainment, interesting stuff, trends, tech, designs, culture and many more.

Well, I successfully collected almost 30 sites of them, so just glance through all of them and pick the sites you like, bookmark, subscribe to RSS or delicious them. With all these sites, you can know Japan even better. This is going to be a long post.

3yen

News, Lifestyle, Tech, Entertainment, Trend

http://www.3yen.com/

Blogs on Japan

RSS, Culture, Funny

Welcome to Blogs on Japan. Here I hope to share with you some of the best/interesting articles relating to Japan. Be aware, some links are NSFW (not safe for work).

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FUNKY MONKEY BABYS – Mou kimi ga inai

. J-Pop, Japan, Lyrics

FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - Mou kimi ga inai

Eh, why is Toda Erika on the cover? Well, I will explain it later. Introducing FUNKY MONKEY BABYS with their 6th and latest single “Mou kimi ga inai (もう君がいない)”. The title means you are not there anymore, this suggests that this is a sad love song but its warmhearted melody is perfect for the current opening winter season.

Who is FUNKY MONKEY BABYS

FUNKY MONKEY BABYS is a Japanese hip-hop band grouped in 2004 under the record company DREAMUSIC Inc. All members in the group are from Hachiôji, Japan. There are three members in this unit: Funky Katô (MC), Monn-kichi (MC) and DJ Chemical (DJ) who joined later. Clearly, “BABYS” is an intentional spelling error for “BABIES.” Known as fann-mon(ファンモン) in short.

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Fight Fat! – keep yourself fit & healthy

. Nice Ads

Fight Fat!

Obesity is one of the serious issues out there as human are getting fatter and fatter! Well, people nowadays are too lazy to go for a exercise and having a bad eating habit lifestyle, which lead them to overweight problems especially the kids. Being overweight is no good, because it brings a lot bad effects to body for example high blood pressure and more. So we have to use the power of advertising to warn people about the seriousness of overweight problem by having a better eating lifestyle and go exercise!

The award winning ad shown above is one good example of using effective image and straight forward copywriting. It shows a healthy fit man fighting with the fat version of himself. The tagline is just a simple “Fight Fat”. I think it is very making sense because we always says that to keep fit is by fighting the fat! This is an advertising to promote kick boxing for Xtreme Martial Arts. There is another two variation shown below. By the way, the ad was done by Malaysian.

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