Author: ageekinjapan

Artistic rice fields

Carlos sent me this link with some really intersting rice field pictures. There is a little village in Aomori called Inakadate where every year they make represent an important piece of art using rice fields. This year, they made The great Kanagawa wave. Let’s see the rice fields evolution during the last months.

Ola kanagawa
This is the layout they used to prepare the rice fields.

Ola kanagawa
May 27th

Ola kanagawa
June 7th

Ola kanagawa
June 28th

Ola kanagawa
August 30. Check all the pictures here.

This is what they managed to do this year, pretty impressive!, they’ve been practicing during the last six years. The last year they crafted Fujin and Raijin, this was the final result:

Ola kanagawa
Check all the pictures here

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Norton antivirus cosplay

Just watched the last Norton antivirus advertising campaign in Japan. It’s crazy! they have created a super-heroe who represents the antivirus and many insignificant black monsters who represent the viruses. They are doing shows in some of the most important electronics shops in Tokyo. Found these videos at Japanprobe, so you can see what I’m talking about:

History

Made in occupied Japan

Occupied
I found this tag in a shop.

Since 1945 until 1952 all products that where exported from Japan to the United States of America had to have a tag with the sentence “Made in occupied Japan” written. Noways when you find something with this tag it’s like a “warranty” that the stuff you are buying was produced during the Japanese post-war years; I guess is useful for collectors to know this.