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NTV’s “Surprise Surprise” had a feature last week about Shigeru Okada, creator of some pretty awesome origami stop motion animations, since he has created stop motion videos of origami life of a butterfly…Here was the original video of Shigeru’s Youtube Channel…You should take a...

To HardCore Gamer!!!!!There will be a LAN party (In Brunei of course).Date :Friday, November 27, 2009 at 2:00pmLocation:Mahmud’s Crib430 Darul Effa, Jalan Kulapis, Kg batong.List of game will be played:-(mostly from the picture in the image)> Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2> Portal> Half Life> Co...

With about a month to go before Christmas, Santa Claus arrived Sunday at Narita airport on a Finnair flight from Finland. Santa Claus will take part in Christmas events in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and other places during his Japan tour through Dec 24, and give gifts to children at nurseries and kinde...

Article by RACHEL THIEN(Via BT.Com.Bn)THE first shipment of 1,500 Influenza A (H1N1) doses of vaccines has arrived in Brunei on Monday (2nd November 09), with another 476,000 doses expected to be available for the entire population by the end of January 2010.The minister told The Brunei Times tha...

News to all Bruneians, whoever and loves anime/manga/cosplay, and Deviantart.com member (Brunei), there is good news.The Brunei Deviants had decided to have another meeting or gathering this year: 5th Bru-Dev Meet 2009.Tickets is Available in CH-Toynation Kiulap Branch NOW!!!Ticket = $5.00 per pe...

Looking for some gift to who your brother/sister this Xmas? Sick of them asking you for money? Sick of waking them up every morning? Look no further as Japan has released the Boxing Bell Alarm Clock and the Crazy Doggie Bank!When the alarm goes off, a referee voice begins counting to ten. If y...

An interesting video showing the various people who buy sausages from a shop on a train station platform in Osaka where thousands of commuters pass through Kyobashi Station in Osaka every day. For 600 of them the singular highlight is a sausage.

Got a cough? Get this cough drop and then your chest will produce Bird humans! [JapanProbe]

Seems some gamers are WAY too addicted to Love Plus that now some gamer announces he is to wed Nene, one of the dating sim’s three virtual girlfriends.The otaku brought his DS and a copy of the game to a church in Guam, where he took Nene Anegasaki’s hand in marriage. The newlyweds plan to hold a...

A list that I have found which has a lot more info of the upcoming animes!-TV Premieres/Motion Picture/OVA-The attachment below only shows some of the lineups (starting January 2010) For more info on the December and January and February Line-ups, PLEASE click the link provided below to have a ch...

I am very sorry about this, where I can't post anything here recently.This is because I don't have a time to do posting, and time to check out new stuff around the internet.Recently I had exams where I spend most of my time sitting in front of my desk and kept staring at my books and notes. (I re...

Imagine waking up one morning and you were late for work… you grab your bike and off you cycle to work, and oh no, you need to email your client about some important document… what do you do?Take a look at what the people in Japan do! Supposedly there is a small community of Japanes...

Calling all guys!  THis may be perfect for your beloved XMas Present!  Featuring the… Golf Bra!   With the Japanese branch of German lingerie maker “Triumph International”, they have created a new gimmick bra meant to attract media attention to their brand. The green corset-s...

I am lost for words… Who would want to have that on top of their Cup Noodle?  I’m getting stomach aches from looking at it! [netamichelin]

I had a good time to laugh about this video... lol.. I wish to have oneSpecial credits for Viswey Zerona for sharing this funny video with us in the Jap-On Forum

Want to know how to save around 1500 yen when you purchase the JR’s Narita Express & a Suica card combo if your purchase it at the airport?  It’s a special deal only foreign tourist (yay! that’s my team!)  for those who can present a foreign passport at the time of purchase.A suica card...

A NTV show dug up a clip from a contest that aired on the network 21 years ago where 3,000 students from Saitama Sakae High School create an image of Mona Lisa:Like seriously, what could be better than standing in a playground using time from a Art lesson by learning like this?  Way better than ...

Who would have thought that Mayonnaise and Ramen would go so well together?  Well only the Japanese do!“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a restaurant in Gunma prefecture that proudly serves mayonnaise ramen:Maybe I am hungry but I certainly would like to try that ramen for myself!  IF it is that cream...

Ever been to a Mascot Summit in Japan?  Where there are like mascots on every street corner?  Or even see a mascot being protected by bodyguards?  Well you will see it in Hikone!NTV’s “Zoom In” morning show has shown a the mascot summit that was recently held in Hikone, a yura-character where mor...

Just to let readers know, the JAP-On! Blog will be undergoing a few theme upgrades and changes over the next 2 days!  Do not worry about why the JAP-On! Blog has gone a bit grey!I have fed CDM quite a few packets of Pocky so hopefully he will get the work done and dusted by the end of the week!  ...

One of Europe’s busiest diagonal crossings has opened in central London’s Oxford Circus.Based on crossings in Tokyo, the new design stops traffic in all directions, allowing shoppers to cross diagonally in an “X” as well as straight ahead.The £5m junction is able to handle...

Toilet paper manga is a backup for you just in case you haven’t managed to grab some manga before rushing to the toilet. It contains funny 4 strip mangas on each strip of the toilet roll which looks like fujio style and I have no comments at all… I shall pass that to Fairchild who s...

“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a restaurant in Tokyo’s Katsushika ward that has a hamburger vending machine:The vending machine sells hamburgers for 100 yen each. Upon inserting a single 100 yen coin, a hamburger quickly comes out of the machine. However, a second try fails to produce a hamburger. ...

Fans of the TV anime series “Mobile Suit Gundam” gather at bar “Axis” in Kobe’s Chuo Ward. Since its opening in June this year, Axis — dubbed the “Gundam Bar” — has been gaining popularity among fans for its display of nearly 300 plastic models and cocktails named after popular characters. This y...

According to an update from the Juiz Blog…A slight delay in The King of Eden will allow the release for the movie to be released to Japan on 19th December 2009!But lets hope the worldwide audience will get to see it soon!Digg this!Share this on del.icio.usStumble upon something good? Share ...

So this month, the beginning of November, the end of October and the start of a very exciting film to be released at the end of this month!Eden of the East, The King of Eden will be released on 28th November 2009 and with it to boot and to tempt all of its fans, Production IG has decided to uploa...

UPDATE TO Winter 2009 – Anime LineupA list that I have found which has a lot more info of the upcoming animes!-TV Premieres/Motion Picture/OVA-December:「Rose O’Neill Kewpie」- *on WOWOW (12/02) ~26 episodes「Tokimeki Memorial 4 – The First Finder (OAD)」- *shipped w/ “Tokimeki Memorial 4 Complete S...

Gundam 00 is to get its own movie to be released in 2010 just to remind fans who has watched the 25th episode of Gundam 00 earlier on this year.And today we get to see a movie trailer of the major developments from the writers of Gundam 00, the drawings of the Gundams and also some animated seque...

So readers from around the world, ever thought of what the difference is between Japanese and American Halloweens?  According to NTV’s “Zoom In” morning show, the reporter goes off to New York to investigate the “Zombie” trend of halloween versus the Japanese “cutie” trend...