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  • Macias Vs. NHK

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    Mr. Macias is going to help us learn English on TV!

  • Takashi Sugimoto

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    Earlier tonight there was a fascinating profile on TV covering interior designer Takashi Sugimoto (the show aired at 22:00 on TV Tokyo). We were taken on a tour of some of his works — like the stunning Park Hyatt in Seoul — followed by a look at the house he bought and modestly renovated in…

  • Yahoo! for Hard Gay

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    Because you’ve been asking for it (well, not really, but still): enjoy this short video of Hard Gay (a comedian who’s becoming more and more popular these days) doing his thing at the Tokyo offices of Yahoo! Japan.

  • Oh! Yeah! Mikey!

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    I’m a huge fan of the OH! MIKEY series (thanks to Patrick, who always lends me the new DVD releases), and the next release sounds like an absolute winner. Patrick says (on his Agenda blog): Coming next month is a new Oh! Mikey DVD, this time containing unreleased episodes that didn’t make it to TV.…

  • Blog Type

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    Well, looks like blogging has hit the Japanese TV mainstream. As I was flipping through the channels last night, I came upon BLOG TYPE (Saturdays at 23:30 on Fuji TV). They — including uber-gravia idol MEGUMI and actress Kanno Miho — basically dramatize posts that they find on blogs, and then chat about them. Oh,…

  • MM Versus Sadako

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    Idol group Morning Musume watch RING in front of cameras, and squeal like there’s no tomrrow (be patient, takes a while to load). Link via Waxy.

  • Ozzy in Tokyo

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    Last week’s episodes of THE OSBOURNES saw the family coming to Tokyo so that daughter Kelly could do some promotional stuff, and Ozzy was to accept a prize at the MTV Japan award show. Their arrival in Japan was accompanied by the obligatory Pizzicato Five “Twiggy, Twiggy” reference, but they then followed up with some…

  • TV Salaries

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    My love for Yukie Nakama is pure, going back to her days as the star of the most excellent TRICK series, and I’m shocked to learn how little the star of a top-rated show gets paid — although I just have the American TV industry to compare with. Nippon TV’s Saturday night drama “Gokusen” is…

  • A Video Reprieve

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    I’ve been rather hard of late on the music video channels — with good reason — but all is not lost, as I was just reminded of the weekly SpaceShowerTV show PUSH JAPAN TYO. Just now they were playing a Groovisions directed video for a band called Freenote, for the single “Walkmen.” The song itself…

  • Surfing the Japanese Music Channels, Part Trois

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    You know it, you love it, it’s time for another tour of the music channels! M-On has their “Countdown 100” show on right now, and I was just treated to #42: your generic J-pop idol, strutting her stuff like there’s no tomorrow. She’s cute, as are all her backup dancers, and the video is mostly…