Not sure what African dancers have to do with snacks but… The Japanese snack company Koikeya has released a commercial promoting some new flavors of their popular Sukoon (スコーン) snack product, which features Zaouli dancers from the Ivory Coast. The Zaouli is a traditional mask dance performed by the Guro people of the African nation of Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).  …

Who knew you could use a bra as a shield? The third promotional video for DLE’s upcoming anime project called Henkei Shoujo (Transformation Girls) is out and like the previous videos this one introduces us to another high school girl with the ability to transform into a ‘sexy’ machine. Following on the heels of the videos for the first “transformtion …

A Japanese music producer/composer is starting to generate some buzz online thanks to a truly revolutionary product that he is trying to get made via Kickstarter. That product? An electronic crotch drum that will make you the envy of all your friends. Called Banggos, this unique little drum machine was posted to Kickstarter on July 13 by Japanese music producer …

DLE has released a second video for its anime project Henkei Shojo (変形少女, Transformation Girls) and this one stars a Japanese high school girl who loves drinking other people’s gasoline and transforming into a pink sports car with a sexy undercarriage. This latest installment in this perplexing video series introduces viewers to Rin, a 16-year-old girl, who is part of …

Steamy onsen action. Just about the most cliché thing an ad for an onsen (hot springs) can do is show naked girls soaking in hot water covered up in all the right places by steam. And apparently the people behind a new series of promotional videos advertising Ibaraki Prefecture’s hot springs realized this because they instead chose to use naked …

Japan: Leading the world in panty shot innovation. Last week (Mar.27) a myseterious video featuring an anime high school girl with the unique ability to transform into a panty wearing, cleavage showing fighter jet popped up on YouTube and it’s already managed to get well over 300,000 views in less than a week. This mysterious video is a short but …

Because unscrewing things with your hands is so old fashioned. Last week (Mar. 3) the Japanese electric motor manufacturer, Nidec Corporation (nihon densan kabushiki-gaisha), unveiled an interesting new device that allows you to use your smartphone to “open bottle caps in a super cool way.” This “life-changing” product is called “SMART PET BOTTLE” (PET is a type of plastic). It …

Don’t get in between this lady and her noodles. A video intended to raise awareness of the city of Tome in Miyagi Prefecture is getting a lot of attention for featuring some intense action scenes and a 61-year old woman that doesn’t like it when you get between her and her food. The roughly 4-minute action packed video, which was …

Educate yourself. The Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DcCoMo has released an English language comedic video aimed at people visiting Japan.   The video, entitled “HOW TO USE TOILETS in JAPAN” has two main segments. The first half deals with, what one would expect given the title, how to use toilets in Japan. It does so in a style quite …