On the third day since the earthquake and tsunami, TV news broadcasts a scene of three elderly people being rescued from an isolated and damaged house in Iwate prefecture. One…

13 hours after 8.8 magnitude quake struck northeast Japan, 6.6 magnitude quake hit north Nagano prefecture in central Japan. There have been some aftershocks in Tokyo area too. At the…

A new variety TV show “America wo Warawasero! (Make America Laugh!)” is going to start next month on TBS. The show was co-produced by a Japanese entertainment conglomerate and an…

There are so many girls’ idol groups in Japan, and dozens of groups are active in the forefront. Singing and dancing are the basic skills to the idols, but this…

  My recent favorite commercial is the SONY’s Play Station 3 commercial series, “Sekai Banno Taidan (The World Almightiness Meeting),” where the SONY’s “almighty” game system and a green onion…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “FRISK Commercial” Today’s story teller is a novelist Kikuko Tsumura. The topic was a TV commercial for FRISK (a brand of mints), which…

  There is a totally new style of rice ball (“mokamusu”) in [W:Hyogo prefecture] and ever since it was introduced on TV shows, it became really popular in west Japan….

  Do you know McCafe? A coffee line launched by McDonald’s? To simply explain, it has all kinds of fancy coffee drinks including cafe latte, frappe and cappuccino. Since it…

  If you like hair products or cosmetics, you may know SHISEIDO, a Japanese major hair products and cosmetics company. The company’s TV commercials always have originality, and this one…

    Today, I want to share this fantastic report by Daily Portal Z, which is a resource site for this blog. Amazingly, they interviewed with a famous Japanese film…

  — ABOUT  Wasabi Stories… —   “Listen to others more than talking” Today’s story teller is a comedian and TV talk show host, [W:Kazuki Kosakai]. He’s been in the…