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Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:30:55 -0600

JAPATTACK reports on junk stuffs and chaotic city life of Tokyo, along with anything from Japanese film, music,books, art, toys, idols, gossip and to dirty old men.

Maruione Online Site

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:28:41 -0600

Ok. The cat is out of the bag. As I hinted at before, I’m now doing work for Japanese fashion and department store Marui. Here are the details. But first, from Wikipedia…

“Marui Co., Ltd. (株式会社丸井 Kabushiki-gaisha Marui) (TYO: 8252) is a Japanese retail company which operates a chain of department stores in Tokyo. They are best known for their women's fashion and accessories.
In 2003–4 the company generated US$2.75 billion in revenues. Its president is Tadao Aoi.”

Think Japanese street fashion: Harajuku, Shibuya (below), etc.......

THE BEST OF THE POP

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:57:44 -0500

One Two Three Four Five Six Seven it's big news!

Fri, 18 May 2007 22:21:26 -0500

A long time suspended male idol from Jonny's are now finally coming back! Ex-NEWS member Kusano and ex-NEWS and Kanjani8 member Uchi are going to be back from this summer's Shonentai Musical "PLAYZONE

NEW BOOK FROM JAPRESS!

Sat, 05 May 2007 16:58:18 -0500

The new book JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRL INFERNO , written by Patrick Macias and Izumi Evers, illustration by Kazumi Nonaka, is on sale May 2007.

Japanese schoolgirl fashions and subcultures have sprung up, burned out, mutated, and evolved into a pop culture phenomenon gone global from Gwen Stefani's "Harajuku Girls" to Gothic Lolita-fueled manga and the deadly schoolgirl in Kill Bill, it's no wonder that interna

New book from Patrick and Tomo: OTAKU IN USA!!!

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:53:15 -0500

The new book OTAKU IN USA , written by Patrick Macias, edited and translated into Japanese by Tomohiro Machiyama, will go on sale in Japan in August 2006.

Best girl idol performances in this 10 years

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:14:51 -0500

1: Morning Musume - Souda We're Alive

Hard Gay

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:07:49 -0600

This very populer Japanese comedian of 2006 aka "Laser Ramon HG" was reported in news today that he actually has a girl friend. Here is his recent music performance.

Wish to be translated in English

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:31:56 -0600

Gothic Humberts

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:46:42 -0600

March 2006 will see this opening of the first Butler Cafe in Japan. Name: Swallowtail. Location: Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district, in that increasingly well-known hideaway for female otaku known as Otome Road. URL: http://butlers-cafe.jp.

Tetsuya Nakashima's(Kamikaze Girls) New Short Film is here!

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:04:02 -0600

[Stream Movie playing]
This is "Rolling Bomber Special". The director Tetsuya Nakashima whose talent for producing pop and tastefully kitsch movies like the film "Kamikaza Girls" did it again; This time with a short film featuring Katori Shingo of the Japan's number one idol group SMAP,...

Nakareba Narimasen

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:27:03 -0600

Oh man. NHK has updated their Ego de Shabera Nighto website with a krazy photo collage of the upcoming episode I'm featured in. It looks like this...

Nobuta. wo Produce

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:13:42 -0600

It is rather a cliche on a worldwide scale for any tv series or movies that deal with the subject of teenage life to have a theme of “popular"vs. "unpopular" – but in this new hit TV drama "Nobuta. wo Puroduusu”(eng. "Producing Nobuta"), that is currently being shown in Japan and whose theme song is becoming popular as well is somewhat different from those type of high school story.

Figure+Doll=U-noa (Unoa Doll)

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:49:36 -0500

Mamoru Oshii's "Innocence (Ghost in the Shell 2)" is a SF story of cyborg (human look like= doll) who had presence more than a human being. The graphic novel, "Dolls" by...

Mondo Japan 2005: 10/16 Eiga Hi-Ho 10th Anniversary Ball

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:53:45 -0600

It's three in the morning. Everything good and decent is asleep in bed, or certainly should be. Whoever and whatever would disturb the rest of the land seems to be in Shinjuku…