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“OK, so it’s only a small mountain, but it’s a mountain nonetheless. Not thinking enough about what’s needed for mountain climbing is inviting trouble.”

Apparently, the accident rate for Mt. Takao has doubled recently, and in most cases it seems like it’s because of Japanese women wanting to keep wearing ‘kawaii’ or ‘cute’ clothing… no matter what!! I mean, who wants to be seen wearing uncool clothing, even on a mountain

More here.

This last week, Yuko and I saw a couple of films. First up was “The Sun”. Well, actually, I saw all the film, and then Yuko decided to watch it from half way through. It’s sort of like a companion piece to Downfall.
Certainly not the most amazing film I’ve ever seen, but still pretty good.

The other film we got out at the time, but didn’t get around to watching until last night was Cursed ['Chô' kowai hanashi A]. Yuko likes her horror films, and I quite like a number of Japanese horror films.
This one… pile of excrement! Avoid at all costs… unless you have a thing for ex-model Sato Hiroko.

[Ouch, slap from Yuko!]

“Akira” is getting the live-action big screen treatment courtesy of Leonardo DiCaprio

Why, what is the point? Nothing against DiCaprio, I just can’t see why this needs to be turned into a live-action film.
It may well turn out to be OK, but it certainly won’t be a revelation of a film.

Meanwhile in China

Ahh, good old football rivals… looks like it was a bad-tempered game with China-Japan. (Japan won 0-1… woohoo).

Ahhemm. After a relatively serious post, this one is rather more nonsensical.

What if Star Wars was set in Wales!!! (Found this, courtesy of a an old school friend finding this and linking up on Facebook).

Not Safe for Work (if played through speakers) or for the easily offended.

Get more of this nonsense at Taff Wars.

For some reason, I found this most amusing.

EDIT: Found a higher quality link on YouTube…
plus as a bonus… here’s something from Japan (It’s from a show called “Mecha mecha” which was something I used to enjoy watching when I was in Japan).