Category: Japan

Gregory Hines Takara Shochu

Shochu (焼酎, shōchū) is a distilled alcoholic beverage popular in Japan. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

Gregory Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer.

Charles Bronson Mandom Western

Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky on November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor of tough guy roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman.

株式会社マンダム(mandom corp.)は、日本の化粧品メーカー。男性化粧品に強みを持ち、シェアは国内トップ（資生堂が奪回した年もあり、攻防が続いている）。本社は大阪府大阪市中央区十二軒町5-12。ナリス化粧品、明色化粧品、フルベール、オッペン化粧品、エルセラーン化粧品と並ぶ在阪化粧品メーカー。

Translation: Mandom Corporation is a Japanese cosmetics maker. Their strength is in male personal care products and they have largest share of the domestic market (in one year Shiseido captured the top market share and the battle continues between the two companies). Their head office is in Chuo Ward, Osaka.

Marshmallow Breakout

Kasou Taishou (欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞; Kinchan and Katori Shingo’s All Japan Costume Grand Prix) is a semi-annual show on NTV in which various amateur groups (or solo artists) perform short skits, which are rated by a panel of judges. Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever methods of “faking” cinematic special effects on a live stage. The most famous of these skits, and the most successful at “fake special effects” was a skit which is widely known as “Matrix ping pong”.

The marshmallow is a confection that, in its modern form, consists of sugar or corn syrup, beaten egg whites, gelatin that has been pre-softened in water, gum arabic, and flavorings, whipped to a spongy consistency. The traditional recipe used an extract from the mucilaginous root of the marshmallow plant, a shrubby herb (Althaea officinalis), instead of gelatin; the mucilage performed as a cough suppressant.

Breakout is a Pong-like arcade game introduced by Atari in 1976, with a follow-up, Super Breakout, appearing in 1978.