for those who likes dancing

Mix Of Different Japanese Bboy Crews in a battle,

“as much as i like watching people dance, specially break dancing, i cant dance for beans =_=”

Boot-Thieving Pervert Arrested

A man arrested for stealing dozens of pairs of women’s boots has told investigators that he smelled them to imagine what the women who wore them looked like, police said.

Kazuhiro Watanabe, 33, from Okagaki, Fukuoka Prefecture, admitted to the allegations of theft during questioning. “I got excited when I smelled them and fantasized over what the women who wore them looked like,” Watanabe was quoted as telling investigators.

THIS KID IS AMAZING!!

Sungha plays ‘More than Words’ arranged by Michael Chapdelaine.

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An In-Depth Look At Narita Airport’s Immigration Checkpoints

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A brief translation of a few things mentioned in the video:

• The frightening buzzer that goes off a minute and 40 seconds into the video indicates that there is a suspicious individual at one of immigration booth. In such a case, it is necessary to call in extra staff and bring the foreigner to a back room for questioning. Dubious passports and suspicions about stated reasons for entering Japan are the two main things that trigger such alerts. At peak times, the buzzer goes off almost every minute.According to the report, one in ten foreigners called to the back room end up being refused entry to Japan.
• The first foreigner who is called to a back room for questioning is a South Korean woman who is accompanied by a small child. She seems nervous, and it is revealed that she had visited Japan before with her husband and the husband had been forced to return to Korea because he committed a crime. The immigration officials suspect that she may attempt to overstay her tourist visa (such cases are “overwhelming numerous,” claims the narrator), and after questioning she allegedly confesses such an intention. She is refused entry and leaves in tears.
• The second foreigner who is called to the back room is a Filipino man who claims he is coming to Japan to visit his sister, who is married to a Japanese citizen. Immigration officials verify that his sister actually lives in Japan, and he is allowed to enter the country.
• The third foreigner is shown in handcuffs. Apparently he is being forcibly deported for illegally attempting to enter the country as a refugee. (not too sure on the translation here)
• The report mentions the new fingerprinting/photographing system introduced at immigration checkpoints last year. It also mentions that 10,000 foreigners illegally enter Japan a year, 600 of whom are caught at immigration checkpoints. An official claims the fingerprinting system is very useful in catching such illegal entrants.
• The fourth and fifth foreigners called to the back room are two men who suspiciously arrive at the immigration checkpoint at a time when there have been no recent international arrivals. No immigration checkpoint was even in service at the time, so an employee had to rush out and man a booth for them. They were promptly called to the back room for having suspicious passports. Apparently the men had handed over both Sri Lankan passports and Malaysian passports. We are shown that for one of the men, both passports had the same photos, but the names did not match! Their passports are rushed to a special counterfeit document inspection lab, and the Malaysian passports were found to be fakes.The men later confessed under interrogation that they had arrived at Narita 12 hours earlier, hoping to meet with a broker that had arranged for them to board a transit flight to Great Britain. Failing to find their broker, they were left with no choice but to head to the immigration checkpoint. The narrator says that such cases are not uncommon. The men in this particular case were eventually deported to Sri Lanka.

FamilyMart Hamburgers Contained Fishing Hooks

HIMEJI, Hyogo — A teenager required hospitalization after swallowing a fishing hook left in a hamburger he bought from a convenience store here, police said.

The manager of the convenience store that sold the burger reported the presence of two fishing hooks — another one was found inside the packaging.

Investigators are looking into the matter in the belief that the hooks were deliberately placed there.

The Kobe foodstuffs company that produced the hamburger said it was one of about 1,200 burgers made on Sunday morning. They received notice of the discovery of the fishing hooks on Monday afternoon and have since been trying to recall the rest of the batch.

Smoke on the Water, Japanese Style

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This is one of those things that one never even contemplates getting to see. The famous American Rock and Roll song Smoke on the Water is being played by a Japanese traditional-style orchestra, named Ooedo No Hikeshi*. It gets really interesting when they start singing.

*:Edit: Actually it seems Ooedo No Hikeshi (大江戸の火消し) is more a name commemorating a great fire in Tokyo, and this was a group thrown together for the event. I found this in my search online:

From the 250th anniversary celebration of the Great Fire of Edo (Edo is
the traditional name of Tokyo) … one of many, but the most
destructive, held along with the Great Eruption of Fuji-san 300th
Anniversary. This is the Kabuki-za orchestra and readers along with
part of the Suntory Hall Orchestra, which occasionally features the
Crown Prince on viola (but not in this one).

The guy doing the shamisen solo was my next door neighbor 20-odd years
ago.

I doubt there is anyone on this list who will not recognize the melody.
Turn the volume up LOUD and open all of your windows.

The Shibuya Center-Gai Patrol: Keeping Shibuya Clean Through Intimidation

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A week ago, a television program aired about the Shibuya Center-Gai Patrol(SCGP), a non-police group of volunteers that patrols the main streets of Shibuya to keep the area safe and clean.

Below are a few examples of how the patrol operates:

Video Clip 1 Summary

• The patrolman yells at some young people sitting along the side of the street, telling them to stand up because they are being a nuisance.
• Another patrolman goes after a couple young men who are leaning on a guard rail, telling them what they are doing is dangerous and inappropriate. When the men insist they are doing nothing wrong, the patrolman shouts at them until they leave.
• The patrolmen force other young people who are sitting or crouching in areas of the street to stand up, yelling at them and using whistles.

Video Clip 2 Summary

• The two patrolmen angrily tell a restaurant mascot that he is not allowed to stand in front of his store and wave at customers, apparently because he is being a nuisance to

Video Clip 3 Summary

• The patrol targets some foreigners who are smoking in the doorway of a store.

Video Clip 4 Summary

• The patrol runs into trouble: 2 men holding bags are refusing to move when told they should not be allowed to stand in the street. The men state that they are doing nothing wrong and there are no signs saying it is illegal to stand in the street. The patrolmen react to their statement with anger, shouting insults at them and demanding that they move. The men do not move, and the patrolmen give up.
• A reporter interviews the men, asking why they refused to move. The men reply that they are committing no crime, and that they feel the patrolmen are discriminating against them based on their appearance. Does keeping the streets of Shibuya “clean” mean that anyone the patrolmen regard as “dirty” should be intimidated into moving out of sight?

Reaction

“Safe and clean streets are a nice thing, but all I see in the videos is a group of volunteer bullies verballing abusing young people. It might not be polite to stand in the middle of the street with a large bag, but it seems far worse to have a group of pseudo-police walk around the streets intimidating people into being “polite?”

I may think that the young men in the last video look shady, but that’s no excuse that would justify the disgustingly belligerent behavior of the patrolmen. If standing in the street had been a crime, the patrolmen could have simply summoned the police when the men refused to move. They did not, so it seems to confirm that the men were not committing a crime. It’s good to see somebody willing to resist the intimidation and rude language employed by Shibuya Center-Gai Patrol members.

I am not alone in my views of the patrolmen. While searching for information about the SCGP, I came across this 2-channel thread containing criticism of the SCGP’s use of rude language and intimidation. One anonymous poster pointed out that the Shibuya Center-Gai website has a feedback form through which people can voice their complaints with the SCGP’s behavior. Any residents of Japan who don’t like what they see in the above videos should probably let the Shibuya Center-Gai organization know about it.” –jprobe

Dog & Duck Are Best Friends

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Last week, a Japanese TV show traveled to South Korea to introduce viewers to a dog and a duck that had grown attached to each other! Here is a clip demonstrating how the two animals dislike separation: