16
Nov

It’s a popular children’s song in Japan, and it’s all about breasts. Here’s the music video and lyrics with translation.

『おっぱいがいっぱい』
(a lot of chests)

ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだのに
I drank it. My sister also drank it.

ちっちゃくならない ママのおっぱい
But mother’s chest that doesn’t become small

おふろのなかで さわらせてもらったら
I was going to touch it in the bath.

空気たりない ゴムマリみたい
It’s by not sufficing of air like the rubber ball.

ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだから
’cause I drank it, my sister also drank it.

おっぱいがでない ママのおっぱい
Milk became it from mother’s chest.

あまかったのか 思い出せない
It was sweet or is not possible to recall it.

たくさんのんだはずなのに へんね
It is strange though should have drunk a lot.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

うれしいな さわりたい
I am glad, and wanna touch woman’s chest.
ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだのに
I drank it. My sister also drank it.

おっきなままだね ママのおっぱい
But mother’s chest doesn’t change like being big.

ひとさしゆびで ちょこんとおしたら
It was lightly pushed by the forefinger.

びっくりするほど やわらかだった
It was very soft surprisingly.

ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだから
’cause I drank it, my sister also drank it.

おっぱいがでない ママのおっぱい
Milk became it from mother’s chest.

もひとり赤ちゃん 生れるときは
Is another baby born

また出るようになるのかな ふしぎ
and does milk go out? So, wonder!!

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

きれいだな だいすきさ
It’s very beautiful so. I’m lovin’ it.
おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

きれいだな だいすきさ
It’s very beautiful so. I’m lovin’ it.

11
Nov


Alone in Tokyo HD from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

04
Nov

There’s a good 1-cup sake blog that I follow: bq69 collectibles.  It’s in Japanese so I don’t understand what it says until I translate it using Google Translate, but it’s a great blog.  He rates cup sake from all over Japan and takes detailed pictures of each cup that he reviews.  Here’s how he takes pictures of the cups:

He’s recently attended the a sake cup tasting in Japan and bloged about it (english)

28
Oct

I didn’t know they had AM:PM stores in Isreal, but the CEO was just fired for letting Jewish people there work on Yom Kippur.  Is this the same convenience store chain that’s all over Japan, or is it a different chain with the same name?

via Ynetnews

22
Oct

Maglev trains, as the name suggests, levitate on powerful magnetic fields above the tracks. The lack of friction means they can reach extremely high speeds.

Rather astonishingly for anyone used to most Western trains, the Japanese technology has been in the pipeline since the 1960s, with a major publically viewable 20km test track to the west of Tokyo since 1997.

The top speed reached so far at the Yamanashi test facility is 581kph (361mph). If that’s hard to picture, imagine a commercial jet aircraft flying past at full throttle at ground level – that’s in the same ballpark.

via Digital World Tokyo

08
Oct

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.

Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of inventory, conflicting prices, and so many customers! It’s all such a confusing mess. But a mysterious book and a helpful fairy promise to solve her organizational problems—with the practical magic of databases.

In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication.

Examples and exercises (with answer keys) help you learn, and an appendix of frequently used SQL statements gives the tools you need to create and maintain full-featured databases.

(Of course, it wouldn’t be a royal kingdom without some drama, so read on to find out who gets the girl—the arrogant prince or the humble servant.)

Pre-Order “The Manga Guide to Databases” from Amazon now

07
Oct

I came across a good website today: PriceCheckTokyo.com. It lists the price of everyday items in Tokyo.

The site groups items in to categories:

Some categories are better than others, but it’s useful for guaging how much basic items cost there.

05
Oct

When I have an interesting or delicious looking dish I like to take a picture of it.  Thanks to this new website from Japan your food pics will look even better.  The name of the website is OISHIKUN HENKAN, meaning yummy converter.

Go ahead and upload that lobster tempura JPEG and the yummy converter will spice it right up for you, adjusting the contrast and making it more vivid.  The website asks that you only upload pictures that you’ve taken yourself, and only pictures of food.

via Asianjin