error101/bizarre

"En sonunda bu da oldu. Bir televizyon kanalı eylülde 'Tövbekarlar Yarışıyor' adlı program başlatıyor. 1 imam, 1 papaz ve 1 budist rahip, 10 ataiste kendi dinlerini kabul ettirmeye çalışacak."

beetle cage rage

This is one famously controversial tv show, even for the Japanese.

"An aspiring comedian named Nasubi was locked naked in an empty apartment and forced to live on winnings from magazine sweepstakes until he earned $10,000. When he finally reached his goal 14 months later, the show's producers gave him some clothes, blindfolded him, and took him on a surprise vacation to South Korea, where he was locked in yet another apartment until he won enough money to buy a plane ticket home.

While some vehemently opposed the show, most watched it religiously with delightful horror and amusement. Nasubi wrote a best-selling book about his experience and later became a successful stage actor.)

It's the type of comedy that only works in a culture where lawsuits don't take precedent over a nationwide commitment to make fun and have fun. "

behold the japanese crop art.



"Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year's creation -- a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai's 36 Views of Mount Fuji -- has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September."