Articles on Japan, Video

Google fights controversy with cute in Japan - Sep 16, 2009

Blogs Some of you may remember a video I posted a few months ago, created by Google Japan to promote its Chrome browser. It's really a testament to how much faith Google ... Read story »

Gigantor robot spotted in Kobe, Japan - Sep 30, 2009

Crave Workers in Japan have built a 60-foot statue of famous cartoon robot Gigantor in the city of Kobe. The statue is an actual-size replica of the hulking robot depicted in numerous ... Read story »

Windows 7 Whopper, anyone? - Oct 23, 2009

Crave Much less healthy than the actual operating system. While Microsoft's new operating system finally hits stores and computers around the globe, we thought we'd lighten up Windows 7 launch day ... Read story »

Real-life Transformer robot from Japan - Sep 29, 2009

Crave OmniZero carries Takeshi Maeda at Robo-One. Japanese robot builder Takeshi Maeda is blowing minds with an exciting demo of the latest version of his OmniZero robot. The ninth generation of ... Read story »

Sony serves a slew of new A- and S-series Walkmans - Oct 13, 2009

Crave Update: The new Walkman NWZ-S740 will come in 8GB and 16GB capacities and will be available in Asia Pacific from October 2009. Still, we are waiting for news of the A-840 ... Read story »

New Sanyo beamer sets new lumens record - Oct 21, 2009

Crave The latest Sanyo LP-XF1000 is hailed as the world's brightest projector with a staggering 12,000 lumens output. This is easily four times the performance of an average multimedia model in ... Read story »

Footage of China's Hu with Toshiba ad is banned - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs Many of you will remember the controversy caused back in October after Chinese Netizens complained that their National Day Parade was tainted by an ad for a Japanese company. Hu Jintao's ... Read story »

DIY driving station at its best - Oct 22, 2009

Crave A hardcore racing simulation fan from Japan has created this very rudimental, yet somewhat cool DIY driving station out of PVC pipes, a wooden plank and cable ties. While it ... Read story »

Bandai's new Doraemon Robot - Sep 3, 2009

Blogs One of the most well-known cartoons to ever come out of Asia, Doraemon (or the robotic cat) celebrates his 30th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion Bandai is today releasing ... Read story »

World's first 2TB digital video recorder - Jul 31, 2009

Crave In terms of sheer recording capacity, nothing really comes close to the upcoming Panasonic DIGA DMR-BW970 digital video recorder (DVR). It's possibly the world's first 2TB DVR which can record ... Read story »

BenQ's LED projector "landing" in Japan - Jun 4, 2009

Crave Remember the Dell M109S? Here's its Taiwanese twin based on the same DLP technology and the latest LED lighting. However, the bigger BenQ GP1 is more of an all-rounder and ... Read story »

Move over Gundam, construction on Gigantor is almost complete - Jun 30, 2009

Blogs Now that the life-size Gundam figure is complete, it was only a matter of time before Japan constructed a second giant robot. After all, you wouldn't want the first one to ... Read story »

More Creative YouTube marketing in Japan - May 8, 2009

Blogs This time it's from Pringles potato chips. I just received a notification that shaberingles has subscribed to my videos on YouTube. I'm not sure if its strategy is to make videos ... Read story »

Japan's use and misuse of new iPod nano camera - Sep 24, 2009

Blogs It has only been two weeks since Apple released their new fifth-generation iPod nano with video capture capabilities. And in that short time we've already seen some examples coming out of ... Read story »

View at own risk: Five insanely addictive Japanese commercials - Jul 6, 2009

Blogs Since coming to Japan I've been trying to watch as much television as possible in the hopes that the language might gradually seep into my brain. Unfortunately, by doing so, I've ... Read story »

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