Category: Japan
Janglish Signs and Products

Technically, Janglish refers to expressions that sound like English and are used by the Japanese when speaking Japanese but is also used when mentioning amusing mistranslations too. During my visits i’ve encountered a good few firsthand, so here are a few amusing examples along with some downright funny/unfortunate choices for brands and shopnames!
Final Fantasy XIII Elixir unboxing

It’s almost becoming something of a tradition for Square Enix to release a licensed energy drink around the time a new Final Fantasy game comes out, so it’s no surprise to anyone that Suntory-licensed FFXIII drinks are currently available. What did catch my eye was this funky box on sale in the 7-11, containing both [...]
Groovisions – Fantastic Animation!
Groovisions are a well known design house from Japan, famous for producing films and graphics for Pizzicato Five, Suchadarapah and many others. This is a fantastic music video for HALFBY’s Rodeo Machine, I’ve seen a DVD of this on sale in the Ginza every time I visit Japan but at around £35 I’m yet to [...]
Home
After some 26 hours of travelling through all sorts of weather we are home with our doggie Pickles! The trip started around 7am in Tokyo and being a Saturday morning it was nice and quiet so no getting pushed around like last time, quick ride on the Yamanote from Shinjuku to Shinagawa and we were [...]
Japan New Years Decorations

Christmas is well and truly over in Japan. From the evening of the 25th of December you can see shops wasting no time taking down their displays – being a commercial event over here you could consider it little more than point of sale. Over the next few days, these curious looking objects start popping [...]









