Category: Culture

Sean Connery Gifts Ito Ham

Sean “speaks” two words (overdubbed by an unknown voice actor):
「本物。」(Hon mono) “[It’s the] real thing.”

Sir Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond on film. His character’s catchphrase ‘Bond, James Bond’, has become particularly famous. He starred in six official Bond films between 1962 and 1971, plus an unofficial remake in 1983.

In filmmaking, dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. The term is most commonly used in reference to voices recorded which do not belong to the original actors and speak in a different language than the actor is speaking. “Dubbing” can also be used to describe the process of re-recording lines by the actor who originally spoke them. This process is technically known as additional dialogue recording, or ADR.

There are two gift seasons in Japan, called seibo (歳暮) and chūgen (中元). One is for winter and the other is for summer.

伊藤ハム株式会社（いとうハム、Itoham Foods Inc. ）は、兵庫県神戸市灘区に本店を、同県西宮市に本社を持つ大手食品加工メーカー。

Itoham Foods, Inc. is major food processing company based in Nadaku Ward, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

Sony Qrio Robot Dance

QRIO (“Quest for cuRIOsity”, originally named Sony Dream Robot or SDR) was to be bipedal humanoid entertainment robot marketed and sold by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m (2 feet) tall and weighed 7.3 kg (16 pounds). QRIO’s slogan was “Makes life fun, makes you happy!”

Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, SonÄ« Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the world’s largest media conglomerates with revenue of $68.39 billion (as of 2006) based in Minato, Tokyo. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video games, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.

Japanese traditional dance describes a number of Japanese dance styles with a long history and prescribed method of performance. Some of the oldest forms of traditional Japanese dance may be among those transmitted through the kagura tradition, or folk dances relating to food producing activities such as planting rice (dengaku) and fishing, including rain dances.

Kizakura Sake (1959)

Sake (Japanese: é…’) is a Japanese word meaning “alcoholic beverage”, which in English has come to refer to a specific alcoholic beverage brewed mainly from rice, and known in Japan as either nihonshu (日本酒 “Japanese alcohol”) or sake. This article uses the word “sake” as it is used in English.

Kappa (河童, Kappa “river-child”), alternately called Gatarō (川太郎, Gatarō “river-boy”) or Kawako (川子, Kawako “river-girl”) , are legendary creatures; a type of water imp found in Japanese folklore. However they are also considered to be a part of cryptozoology, due to apparent sightings. In Shintoism they are considered to be one of many suijin (literally “water-deity”).