Tokyo Five picked this video by Scatman Ultraman.

We have snake-type fireworks that look like snakes or poop when you light them, they’re not very attractive. A guy lit off 520 snake fireworks… and a new monster appeared.

I like this English learning site: "Heikin Nihonjin Eigo (Average Japanese English)," it is useful and fun to read. People reply to the question "How do you say this word in English?" and the top three responses show up on the page as three characters’ replies. You pick which character's answer is best, and finally native English speakers judge the results.

Here are some samples:
Go in a circle: Japanese people think it is "air spin" or "wasted effort" or "try hard, get nothing." Since in Japanese, we have the _expression “go in circles” (kara (empty) wamari (go round)), we think like that.
By the book: "manual human" or "rule person" or "text action human." We say it “manual ningen (person)"
Sympathetic crying: "given cry" or "moving cry" or "crying effect" ha ha ha. We say morai (given) naki (crying) in Japanese.
Squeal: "sell out a friend" or "leak" or "secret report." Click the bubble part then you can see how Eric rated the level of understanding.

This is a page that collects impressive photos. Most are funny, but do you know this picture? I didn't know that the photojournalist committed suicide.

Animation studio STUDIO4 ℃'S "First Squad" wins award at the Moscow International Film Festival. It looks pretty good.

This is a video of a train car on the Rokko Line. Since train cars have strong magnetism coming from their motors, paper clips can dance like this. Hmm… scary train.

The world’s fastest records from around the world. Some are Japanese TV films, one of them is the same as this quick morning routine.

The Life Size Gundam was officially released and they held the opening ceremony on Saturday. This panoramic image is great, it’d be nice as a wallpaper on your PC.

This is a post that discusses "what is unlucky about Japan, the Japanese?" I agree with some of them, but I think that Japanese politics suck. I would love to show emotions more freely and hug and kiss in public. And I don't like the mentality that: "the nail that sticks up will be hammered down" (=a tall tree catches too much wind). In this society, uniqueness doesn’t make a good impression. Now I remember that Titanic joke about the Japanese.

I understand that foreign people can enjoy adventures in the supermarket because I really love to go to supermarkets in other countries too. It's fun to read peoples’ comments.

This is a new digital sign at a Tokyo electrical event or something. It's pretty cool, right?

I guess the cat has the same mood as me: "well, a little bit tired. what are you looking at? leave me alone"

I read that there is a drag queen (men dressed as women) boom right now and a drag cafe called "New Type" opened in Akiba. Here is their official site and this is a photo of their staff. Hmm… cute! They are not gay, they just like dressing in drag so maybe they have girlfriends.

Dog translation system "Bowlingual" has a new version! You can tell your dog's feelings and emotions by sound.
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Wow, this is cute and it healed me! I am busy this week, I’ve had five meetings and I couldn’t eat lunch until around 4pm today, but I am okay. Three weeks ago, I started to watch ER from season 1 and the drama makes me feel relaxed because I am not always busy like that. Anyways, is it normal for American people to date, have relationships and change partners among co-workers like they do on the show?

I don't agree with this post: "Bagelheads the latest fad for Japanese teens." I have never seen such a hell boy around me.

And one more: Damn Cool Pics has this post: "Only in Japan." Some of the photos are taken from the book "The Big Bento Box Of Useless Japanese Inventions" and some are fake and some are not Japanese, but most of them are real. Can you tell which is which?

He uses his fingers to do the dance from Michael Jackson's Thriller. It's pretty good and we can feel Michael’s presence.

This is beautiful: a paper craft Castle on the Ocean by Wataru Ito, an art school student.

This is interesting: "Rome restaurant in hot soup for 700-euro lunch tab." We don't know the truth, but the funny part is that the Japanese couple didn't get angry when they were at the restaurant. Ha ha… that's the Japanese for you. By the way, I had a similar experience in France. I paid a lot for a sandwich, but I only realized it when I got to the hotel at night because I couldn't calculate the conversion so quickly.