Dressed in 60 Seconds

Japanese TV gets a little risky with this segment. Girls are put behind a pane of frosted gas and given 60 seconds to change into a bikini from their street clothes. The catch being: they remove the pane when time expires regardless of the contestant being clothed or not. You know you want to watch.
Clip courtesy of preyue on Youtube and the TVinJapan blog.

Hilarious Japanese TV

A Great Clip from a Japanese hidden camera show. They show no mercy to their unsuspecting victims :p Enjoy!

Hilarious Japanese TV Show
Uploaded by thexcity

Sake Tasting

Its time to start rounding out the Japanese experience here on Gaijin Guide. Today I bring you into the world of sake via Gary Vaynerchuk's famous show Wine Library TV. Gary uses phrases like "an orange dreamsicle dipped in Ben Gay" to describe sakes, and than urges you to drink them. The show is entertaining and Gary is like a little kid who substituted crack for his daily Ritalin and then snorted some strawberry lick 'n dip. If you are into wines make sure to check out his show posted daily at viddler.com or subscribe through RSS by clicking here.

Learn Japanese with Tako and Yuki

"Tako and Yuki" is a new series aimed at Beginning Japanese Students. It hopes to compete with JapanesePod101.com for students embarking on the road to fluency. Its innovative videocast form hopes to add an important visual aspect to the Japanese learning process. The road to fluent Japanese is only one play button away. Good Luck and がんばって下さい!

Off to Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan

The Gaijin Guide travels to Shinjuku and Kabuki Cho.
Come take a look at Japan and its urban metropolis.


Shinjuku (新宿区) is home to the world's busiest railway station (seeing over 2 million passengers a day), some of Tokyo's tallest buildings, and the Metropolitan Government Office, which has two observation floors that offer stunning views of the metropolis and are free to the public. Other notable sights and stops in this ward are the gigantic department and discount electronic stores including Yodobashi Camera. Also located right around Shinjuku Station is KabukiCho.

Kabukicho (歌舞伎町) is a red-light district, which houses many hostess bars, host bars, and love hotels. It is also a major shopping, restaurant, and nightclub area as well. The district's name comes plans to build a kabuki theater on is present spot in the late-1940s. Though the theater was never built, the name stuck.

To the Top of Kyoto Station

Here is the next video in the Gaijin Guide series. I climb to the top of Kyoto Station and give a little commentary along the way. More videos to come now that we have reached Christmas break and maybe even a new podcast. Enjoy and shoot me an email at gaijinguide[at]gmail[dot]com if you have any requests or comments.

ガイジンガイドの次のビデオです。どうぞ。京都駅の上まで登りながら、景色について話していました。
今冬休みのでたくさん暇があって、もっとビデオを作るつもりでがんばったら、ポッドキャストを作ります。
このビデオを見て下さい！！質問かコメントがあったらgaijinguide[at]gmail[dot]comにメールを送ってください。僕は待っています。よろしくお願いします。

In the not too distant future

With the Christmas break comes free time, and I will finally be able to post some of the videos and pictures of my time in Japan やった！If you are interested in some of my previous work check out my youtube channel and my flickr account.

Also just an FYI, I applied for JET this year. Lets keep our collective fingers crossed and hope that I will be back in Japan in under a year.

おすすめブログ

I return from the dead to recommend some hilarious/artsy/true-life bloggers, who are documenting their quirky lives in the land of the rising sun. Give them a listen or view.
Here is the link to the short ten minute podcast.