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Turns out it’s not the first time she’s used her charm to deal with an embarrassing live-to-air blunder.
Famous musicians, actors and idol group members star in these memorable ads that will make you laugh, cry and want to buy what they’re selling.
We track down the few remaining cheese crackers that have hooked the legendary frontman of X Japan.
It’s a strange state of affairs when a public TV station is treated in the same way as mosquitoes or demons.
This long-running children’s series may not be doing it on purpose, but is making significant strides in LGBT acceptance in Japan.
The missiles may not be physically crashing into Japan, but their effect is hitting television stations square in the wallet.
A lot’s been said about how foreign audiences feel about Japanese TV dramas, but what if we flip the script?
These responses prove that when you’re spoiled with the best anime in the world, you really can have too much of a good thing.
How to swiftly, and humorously, deal with the bane of every TV owner’s existence in Japan.
The forgotten tactile pleasure of turning a clicky dial to change the television channel can be had again!
NHK’s reign of terror on the Japanese public continues in an unprecedented court victory over a man who engineered his television to refuse their service.
Put a shirt on, you crazy kids!
The wait is finally over for Sherlock fans who have been waiting over four years to get their hands on the Japanese manga adaptation of the popular British TV series.
I often enjoy watching the educational programming of NHK’s E-Tele in the mornings with my family while we get ready for the day. It’s full of fun and educational shows that teach everything from English to geography, and Pitagora Switch (Japanese pronunciation of “Pythagora Switch”) is a big crowd favorite. It showcases cute little machines similar to Rube Goldberg devices where a ball travels along an array of painstakingly arranged cups, springs, ramps, pulleys and whatever else they can cram in to get to the other end.
My two-year-old daughter always gets a kick out of its blend of physics and fun, and now apparently so does much of the Western world after a segment of the show posted onto YouTube has received rave reviews on Reddit for its unique combination of story-telling and Rube Goldberg machinations.