Sometimes a summer is just so epic, it’s almost impossible to capture it or put it into words. This summer in Japan was like that for me. Here’s my attempt to convey what it was like. In the end, you just had to be there.

Filmed mostly in Nagoya, Hakuba, Tokyo, and Ishinomaki. Watch it in HD in 1080p (sorry youtube isn’t the best, by the way).

Thanks, friends, for the best summer of my entire life.

*Song is “Montana”, by Youth Lagoon. I do not own the rights to this song, it belongs to its rightful owners. Please support this artist at www.fatpossum.com/artists/youth-lagoon

I want to dance like this. Every day. ひとりで!!!

My friends are Ninjas

Japanese dude figures out how to play the cabbage like a flute. Is this the definition of boredom?

His Youtube description explains it pretty simply:

I made musical instruments from the cabbage. 
A very high sound is heard.

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Yep, this is where we live.

Yes.

Thought we could all use a little Mexinese in our lives today. Happy Friday! 

Japanese snack company Koikeya has long produced the best-selling spicy snack Karamucho, whose name is a mix of the Japanese word “kalai” (spicy) and the Spanish word “mucho” (very). Given the Mexican origin, and similar phonetic sounds in both Spanish and Japanese, Karamucho has created a great commercial shot in Mexico with a mariachi band. Listen closely, and you’ll realize that they’re all singing in Japanese, not Spanish.

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This little guy is awesome. He should be wearing a helmet though.

Yes! Some old-fashioned Salary Mancing!

2012, Synchronized Robotic Dancing by Genki Sudo and World Order.

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Some cool time lapse footage of Tokyo. Could do without the freaky Blade Runner commentary though. 

If you think NYC is massive or crazy, you should visit Tokyo - the world’s second most expensive city made up of 23 wards, 26 cities, 1 district and 4 sub-prefectures. The metropolitan area of Tokyo is an insane 36 million people.

Tokyo was once known as Edo, meaning ‘estuary’. The name was changed to Tokyo when the capital was moved from Kyoto in 1868. Tokyo basically means ‘East Capital’ (Tōkyō: tō (east) + kyō (capital) as the city lies East in relation to Kyoto. Kind of confusing because Kyoto sounds like a jumbled up version of Tokyo (or vice versa), but kyō still means capital and tō can also mean city, not just East (hence, Kyoto = ‘Capital City’).  [1]