It’s that time of year again. YouTube has unveiled a list of the 10 most popular music videos in Japan for 2017. Released this past Sunday (Dec. 17) at YouTube FanFest 2017 in Tokyo, the list features plenty of appearances by some of this past year’s most talked-about artists and idol groups. The massively popular girl group TWICE for example, …

Let’s just hope there’s no drone crash landings in the middle of their concerts. The Japanese company Drone Net, which sells drones and provides drone related services and information, and the Japanese talent agency HoriPro have temed up in order to create the world’s first drone themed pop idol music group. Called Drone Venus, this six member female music group …

It’s that time of the year again. Although it may seem a bit strange given that people in Japan don’t celebrate the American holiday of Thanksgiving, Black Friday is indeed a thing in Japan. Never one to ignore an opportunity to get people to spend money, over the past several years an increasing number of Japanese retailers have started participating …

Erina Kamiya sure knows what her fans want to see. On October 27, Erina Kamiya, a gravure idol and member of the pop idol group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) started her own YouTube channel. Being no stranger to internet fame thanks in part to video like this one from this pas February where she teaches viewers how to take their …

Erina Kamiya fans, you may now rejoice. The Japanese gravure idol and member of the idol group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls), Erina Kamiya, has started her own YouTube channel and judging by her second video, it seems she knows what her fans want to see. So what does Erina do in her second video? She goes bottomless in order to …

Leave now if you’re not into mindless insanity. MAD videos, or MAD movies as they are also sometimes called, are a genre of Japanese online video/meme that uses crazy epilepsy inducing editing techniques, anime and video game music, visuals from anime and video games and random strange video clips and images taken from all over. These videos tend to be …

Feel Gaina’s Aloha Spirit. Nerfy Guiner Bieber, a.k.a. Gaina, has released her third music video and this time it seems she drew inspiration from the tropicl paradise of Hawaii. Gaina, whose real name is Hina Nagai, is a member of the Japanese female pop idol group Cheeky Parade (a.k.a. Chikipa). She took on the identity of Nerfy Guiner Bieber in …

Erina, I think you have a little something on your face. Chii-tan☆ is an adorable 5 month old female Asian small-clawed otter that over the past couple of months has become a major Twitter celebrity in Japan and even to some extent internationally. Cute videos like the one below in which Chii-tan☆ almost appears to be trying to talk to …

Mac using Hatsune Miku fans must be sad. A computer parts store in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward currently has on display a custom PC featuring a computer tower that makes it look like the virtual pop idol Hatsune Miku is dancing inside it. The unique computer was created by a team of two, which included the popular PC modder Monma Fabio. …

It could be worse… A chain of shops specializing in karaage (Japanese-style fried chicken) called Tenka Torimasu has teamed-up with the Japanese pop idol group Kamen Joshi (Masked Girls) to create a special limited-time karaage that is intended to taste like the sweat of a pop idol. Thankfully, this bizarrely themed fried chicken is not actually covered in anyone’s sweat. …

This is one NSFW little doggie. Social media is filled with pictures and videos of cute animals doing cute things. However, sexy pictures of sexy animals are a lot harder to come by. That is, until now. Her name is Roco (ロコ) and she is an almost 2 year old shiba inu (Japanese dog breed) that is burning up Japanese …

Who wants to see a gravure idol make a strange face? RaMu, a Japanese model/gravure idol/YouTuber, has released an amusing video in which she tries “the most bitter tea in the world.” The intensely bitter tea that RaMu drinks in the video is made from the leaves of a type of holly plant called ilex kaushue. This tea is known …