Note: Check your volume, yelling. Because Mother Nature is everywhere and she’s pissed, this is some helmet-cam footage from a climber in Japan being attacked by a bear. If you watch the footage closely you may notice the bear has a cub with it, so it probably felt it was
This is a behind-the-scenes look at how Japanese school lunches are made. The meals, which are heavy on the vegetables, are changed every day, and several new menu items are added monthly so the kids don’t get bored of eating the same food. For reference, when I was in school
This is a video from photographer Uly Huerta featuring a thirty minute uninterrupted walk through the various districts of Osaka, Japan, including the “shopping districts of Namba and Nipponbashi, the new world district of Shinsekai, and the residential area of Joto-ku.” It was nice and relaxing. I almost felt like
This is a curved digital billboard above Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station that will display a giant cat optical illusion through the day, because that’s exactly what the world needs more of. I swear, Japan is always ahead of the curve. Some more info: According to TimeOut, “the cat will have its
Littering: it’s illegal in Japan. It’s also illegal here but you’d never guess it from all the McDonald’s bags blowing across the road like tumbleweeds. Enter Keisuke Nakagome and Yusuke Matsumoto, the litter collecting samurai of Shibuya, Japan. Every weekend they descend upon the city and flamboyantly collect litter with
This is a compilation video from Kurihara, Japan’s Kurikoma-Kōgen railway station of bullet trains passing by at up to 200MPH in the snow. Could you imagine standing there? That would be terrifying. Especially if you were hoping to catch one of those trains. Me? I really don’t like traveling any
This is a video of a man who just docked on ‘Cat Island’ (actually Aoshima, an island in Japan’s Ehime Prefecture), and is immediately greeted by a number of the island’s feline inhabitants. Apparently the cats used to outnumber human residents on the island somewhere between 6:1 and 10:1, but
Have you ever wanted to see the original Knight Rider series intro in German and Japanese? Well you’re in luck, because these videos are exactly that. Who would have ever thought their lucky day would be a Monday?! Did you know there’s a new Knight Rider movie in the works?