JapanSugoi

Japanese salarymen have it tough.  They may be expected to be at work at 8.30am and with many facing a crowded 1.5-2 hour commute by train, this means getting up early even if they had a late night of drinking with the boss the previous night.

Single Japanese salarymen who aren’t married or have nice Japanese girlfriends that make them breakfast, need to do everything themselves and some have perfected the art of the 5 minute wake up and go.  Japanese comedian Tomonori Jinnai shows us on Japanese TV just how to get up, eat breakfast, get dressed and get ready for work in just five minutes.

More fun to watch pet animal tricks from Japanese TV.  In the first clip two dogs and a chimpanzee battle it out to see how much food can be stacked next to them before they give into temptation. In the second clip, we see more Japanese dog tricks.

Two dogs and a chimp battle it out

going round and round,catching a sword, balancing on cans, drinking at the table

Some recent stats about marriage in Japan show 47 percent of men and 32 percent of women in their early 30s are unmarried as people focus more on jobs and career instead of family.   In supporting the government’s encouragement for people to get married and have kids, the design crazy folks at Triumph International have created the Marriage Hunting Bra or Konkatsu Bra designed to help the marriage minded woman find a husband by displaying how much time remains until she hopes to tie the knot.

Modeled by the pretty gravure idol Hiromi Nishiuchi, this new concept bra has an easy to read LED display that shows the number of days until the wearer’s ideal wedding date.  The white lace bra has the  look and feel of a wedding dress also has a handy ring holder and convenient pockets for a pen and official stamp seal (which will be needed when filling out the marriage license application).

Lovely Hiromi is the ideal Japanese girlfriend to have modeling the marriage hunting bra as she’s single, fun loving and wanting to settle down at some stage.

Triump Marriage Hunting Konkatsu Bra

Usavich ウサビッチis a fun to watch series of animated short films shown on MTV Japan that cleverly fuses 3D animation and traditional 2D illustration.

Each 2 minute episode features the  surreal adventures of an odd couple pair of Russian rabbit inmates “Putin” and “Kirenenko” who share a jail cell with a frog “Leningrad” and a bird “Comaneci”. The first season takes place behind bars while the second season follows them on the run in a stolen car (for a total of 26 episodes). Season 3 is currently underway.

The name Usavich is from Japanese うさぎ “usagi”, rabbit, with “vich” giving it a Russian flavor and the show is produced by Tomioka Satoshi, Miyazaki Aguri and Daisuke Ueno of Kanaban Graphics.

Usavich Videos

Episodes 1-5

Episodes 16-20

Two things that are big in Japan are comedy and learning English. Combining the two is a source of entertainment and the Japanese comedians from TBS comedy show Lincoln リンカーン  do an adult parody of Sesame Street’s Ernie and Bert teaching English called “Speak English! 英語で話そう! Banana Street”

In the following skit, Ernie and Bert’s student is Mimura Masakazu 三村マサカズ of Japanese comedy duo Summers さまぁ〜ず who is learning how to say the phrase “When I am drunk I touch female staff’s butt”.

Fun Japanese TV character Mokkori  has made many beautiful Japanese grauvre idols such as Waka Inoue 井上和香 and Chisato Morishita  森下千里 laugh so hard with his antics.  In the following clip, Mokkori interrupts the voluptuous Harumi Nemoto 根本 はるみ during a massage, so much so that she can’t enjoy her massage any more.

More from those wacky Japanese game shows which feature Japanese impersonators of western celebrities. In this the following clip from Japanese TV,  a Japanese Michael Jackson impersonator takes does his best “thriller” performance against a Japanese Louis Armstrong impersonator complete with painted black face.