That's How Much We Know

 

That's a popular Japanese comedy show, called No Laughing High School. If participants laugh during the show, they receive a punishment, striking their butts with a Kendou Stick as many times as they are found laughing by the judges. Many funny events are organized and happened to make the participants laugh during the show, and the funniest session that they laughed the most was the presentation of a Japanese man's English. The man sounds hilarious and sounds like typical Japanese, who took English classes in middle school and high school, but didn't learned any English.

Shouldn't Dragon Ball Z Be PG-13?

I've read an interesting article, Dragon Ball Z: For Adults, Not Children, discussing that many Japanese animes are not appropriate for children. The article explains that the American cartoons "exist primarily for family-friendly entertainment." Disney is the major entertainment company that makes a lot of cartoons in America, and its most cartoons are made appropriately without sexual and violence scenes and curse language. On the other hand, Dragon Ball Z contains so many violent scnens, swear words, and a few sexual contents.  I have been a big fun of Dragon Ball Z since I was a six-year-old and never listened to my parents' advice not to watch the anime until I became over thirteen. Now, I remember that I punched on my friend's stomach in elementary school after watching the scene, which Goku punched his enemy's stomach and beat it, and got suspended for three days in school.

Children should let their parents' know and have their permissions to watch some violent animes like Dragon Ball Z.






 

Taste of Other Countries In Fast Food

There are many original menus in McDonald's in different countries. For example, the McDonald's in India does not serve any beef burgers because the Hindu people do not eat beef. Instead, they use lamb or chicken meat to make hamburgers. When I go to Korea, I always eat Burgogi Burger because I can have the tasty burger only in Korean McDonald's.

Japan is the biggest countries, which create its original McDonald's menus, such as Deep Fried Shrimp Burgers, Teriyaki Burgers, Deep Fried Mashed Potato Burger, and so on. The most creative and sensational burger in Japan is Sweet Red Bean Burger in Japanese Wendy's as you see the image of the burger in the image above. I'm sure it's the first sweet hamburger ever in the history of the fast food restaurants'. I've never tried, but I will, surely, try it when I go back to Japan. The Red Bean Burger sounds nasty especially if you never tried Taiyaki, a fish shaped pancake with sweeten red bean paste inside.  

  

If you have tried Taiyaki before and liked the taste, you can imagine that the Red Bean Burger tastes like Taiyaki, but don't think that it's like a Cheeseburger. I think the burger will taste better than you would expect. If you ever go to Japan, you may want to try it. 

We shouldn't underestimate fast food restaurants because they have original menus that you can only have them in each countries with very low price. As soon as you arrive in the Narita Airport, you may want to go to McDonald's and order a Teriyaki burger instead of going to Sushi restaurants, which we have in the US.

Hopefully, McDonald's in the US have include some menus from other countries, so that we can experience the taste of other countries.

The Super Extra Large Zaru Soba For Only $6.

Most of my American friends say that anything in Japan is tiny. I'm small like the average Japanese adult's size, but I ate 75 pieces of sushi when I went to the rotating sushi bar in my hometown in Japan. Now, many restaurants in Japan started "Dekamori," which means "super extra large" in English, on their menus to satisfy people's stomachs. The great things about the "Dekamori" service is that you pay only extra one or two dollars and can get more than double amount of a dish you choose.

If you are really hungry for Japanese food, I suggest you go to Japan and order these "Dekamori" dishes. The tastes are always better in the restaurant in Japan than the Japanese restaurants in America.

There Are11 Domestic Airlines Worse Than Air Tran

In the beginning of this year, I had the tragic experience in the Atlanta Airport. On the way back from NY, I had to stay in Atlanta for three nights because of the flight's cancellations in the icy weather. Because I didn't have enough money to sleep in the hotel, I slept on the bench in the airports for three nights. I thought I was experiencing little bit of the "Terminal."
Missing my classes, spending almost $100 for the meals in the expensive airport restaurants, no shower, and sleeping on the bench, I felt the "Terminal" was like a hell. One thing surprised me was that the Air Tran did give a free meal ticket for only one meal to their customers, who got stuck in the Air Port for a few days. In Japan, if the flights are canceled for any reason, the airlines pay enough money for their customers to eat and sleep in hotels and sometimes let them upgrade to the business class. 
I've used Air Tran many times when I go to other states because it's often the cheapest. Anytime I use the airline, the company make customers wait until the seats are filled even though it's already past the departure time. I though I didn't care the service or quality of airlines as long as it's cheap, but Air Tran is too bad for me to say, "Air Tran isn't bad." I thought Air Tran was the worst domestic airlines without any doubt, but Air Tran was not in the 11 worst domestic airlines according to the website, The Huffington Post.
I became scared to know how worse these 11 airlines are than Air Tran. How bad is American Eagle, the worst domestic airline?    

What's Wrong With The 35 Percent?

Taco Bell company was sued that its "seasoned ground beef" contain only 35 percent of beef. They sue the company to labeling "beef" to the taco meat, which contain 35 percent beef, and 65 percent of water, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent and modified corn starch. They also sue for the company not to show these ingredients, to which some consumers might be allergic.

I disagree that Taco Bell mislabel their products because they never said that's "100 percent pure beef." Haven't you heard or seen the "100 percent beef" in the TV commercials or signs or labels on the freeway many times? The emphasis of the "100 percent beef" imply that other beef with no "100 percent" is mixed with something else. So, as long as Taco Bel doesn't lie to label "100 percent beef" if it's only "35," they shouldn't be sued of mislabeling.
Perhaps, Taco Bell might need to explain what is in the beef more clearly because some people may find that they are allergy to some of the ingredients.
I shouldn't expect too much from the tasty 79 cents taco.

The Virus Throughout The World

If I'm given the freedom of speech, I have to say they are the origin of the today's collapsed society. Even though the "F" words are running around in my head when I think of the band, not to become like them, I shouldn't express my honest feeling toward these gentle men with any curse words.
I think it was not only their faults to appear in the media but it was also the media's fault to allow them to appear in the media.
They could say curse words or anything they felt in their home, but they must have carefully thought of what to say and when to say because they were influential to society once they were in the media.
I'm sorry for those who are following the band about what I write here. Maybe, I should listen to their music to see if I like their songs. But what they have said through the media will never change their negative images in society unless they deeply apologize to society.

Everyday Is Halloween For Us

How many people thought that the girls in the image are wearing costumes for Halloween? The girls are high school students in Japan and their make ups and clothes are the popular styles called "Kogyaru Fashion." The girls who appear with the fashion are called Kogyaru. They daily wear the school uniform and make up like that in school and everywhere they go. Many female high school students especially in the Tokyo area follow the "Kogyaru Fashion" and group together with other "Kogyarus."
I have a couple of class mates from middles school, who used to be very quiet and started wearing the fashion after entering high school. I've seen significant changes of the devoted students, such as missing most of classes, smoking in school, drinking, and cursing at teachers. Anytime they commit something bad, they are always doing it with a bunch of friends.
Many students, who became Kogyaru, had some kinds of problems in their past, such as family issues and relationship problems with their friends. They join the Kogyaru group because they are welcomed to join in the  group. Also, the make up completely change their faces and make them feel stronger and protected by covering shields of the intense make up on their weak, delicate characters. Therefore, the make up does not only change their looks but also change their personalities.
For Kogyarus, Halloween does not change any different from the other days because they are always wearing Halloween costumes.

"Yes Pants Day"

"No Pants Day" is the exposed and liberated event, which the participants of the event take off their pants in public. I don't even know if I should call it an annual event, but the truth is that the "No Pants Subway Ride" has been a well-known annual event in the subway in NYC since 2002. The purpose of the event is to bring laughter to people. If anybody ask what happens to their pants, they simply say, "I forgot." Yeah, everyone forgets things. Haahaahaa.
I don't like that the way how they catch people's attention. The no pants in public would mystify people to judge what's right and wrong. I really hate that the pioneer of the event came up only with this stupid idea to make people laugh, and I really hate that people like it.
Hopefully, it will not be escalated and go beyond the borderline of "Being Naked Day."
Ladies and Gentlemen, don't take the-seemed-to-be-funny stuff for granted. The "No Pants Day" make the already-immoral society even much worse.
Have a nice pants!

The Animated Power

Japanese Anime have huge impacts on children in Japan and other countries. Many Japanese Anime are shown without any age restrictions; however, if you watch these anime with asking, “What impact does Anime have on children’s attitudes and behaviors,” you may discover how influential some Japanese anime are to Children. Famous Japanese anime, such as Princess Mononoke and Crayon Shin-chan, have influenced the ways in which children think, act, and speak.     

            Princess Mononoke by Hayao Miyazaki, the film director, gives the wrong image of God to Children. The high qualities of graphics and creative stories of the animated film interests not only children but also young and matured people. In the last scene of the story, Shishigami, the God of life and death, becomes infuriated because of the destructions of the nature by humans and tries to terminate the invaders. The attack on the humans and mysterious appearance of the Shishigami scared many viewers. I watched the film when I was thirteen.  While most adult viewers would reflect that the God in the film was different from the God they believed in, most child viewers would misunderstand that the Shishigami was the example of God like I did. The example tells that children are not capable of criticizing Anime, and therefore, they can understand only the direct meanings what characters say and act in Anime but do not understand the twisted or indirect meanings of the languages and actions.  

            Crayon Shin-chan, a comedy anime, contains inappropriate languages and actions of Shin-chan, the main character in the anime, that influence children’s attitudes and behaviors. Shin-chan’s charming look and unusually low voice for a five-year-old child caught viewers’ attentions and the anime became a sensational TV show that all the Japanese children imitated the ways in which the main character behaved and spoke. Shin-chan, who is only in kindergarten, often shows his favorite dance “Mr. Elephant” which he becomes naked the lower half of the body and shakes his back. The dance became popular among Japanese boys in elementary school and kindergarten to imitate with taking off their underwear in their house and even in front of other classmates in school.

            Shin-chan’s disrespectful acts toward his mother have caused the attitude problem of children in their families. Shin-chan often makes fun of his mother, Misae, by saying that “Misae’s fart is stinkiest in the world,” or “Misae’s butt is bigger than an elephant’s.” Many children used these phrases to their own mother.

            Japanese Anime is powerful and dangerous tool to lead children in the wrong way. Child viewers may require parental guidance to watch, Princess Mononoke, to teach them that the story described in the film is different from the real world. Crayon Shin-chan should be restricted to 18 and over for children to grow properly and moralistically. Adults have to be aware of what would influence children because they are the important figures for the future society.