Category: Japan

Kewpie Tarako Kigurumi

キグルミは、赤色のたらこの着ぐるみを頭にかぶった小学生の女の子の2人組ユニット。所属レコード会社はビクターエンタテインメント。

Translation: Kigurumi is a group comprised of two elementary school students that wear stuffed animal-like red pollock roe on their heads. They are signed to Victor Entertainment recordings.

Kewpie is also a Japanese food manufacturer, famous for its popular brand of Japanese mayonnaise sold in plastic squeeze bottles with a Kewpie doll logo.

There are also members of the Theragra genus that are commonly referred to as pollocks. This includes the Alaska pollock or walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and the Norwegian pollock (Theragra finnmarchica). While related (they are also members of the family Gadidae) to the above pollocks, they are not members of the Pollachius genus.

Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine animals, such as sea urchins, shrimp and scallop. As a seafood it is used both as a cooked ingredient in many dishes and as a raw ingredient.

Kigurumi Official Site (English)

Taped Up Cat

The Japanese Bobtail is a breed of cat with an unusual ‘bobbed’ tail more closely resembling the tail of a rabbit than that of an ordinary feline. The short tail is caused by the expression of a recessive gene. Thus, so long as both parents are bobtails, all kittens born to a litter will have bobtails as well. Unlike the Manx and other cat breeds, where genetic disorders are common to tailless or stumpy-tails, no such problem exists with the Japanese Bobtail.

Duct tape, in the USA, is a strong, fabric-based, multi-purpose pressure-sensitive adhesive tape. It is generally silver or black in color but many other colors, like transparent, have recently become available. Duct tape is usually 1.88 inches (48 mm) wide. It was originally developed during World War II in 1942 as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition cases.

Cameron Diaz SoftBank Sugar Town

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress and former fashion model.

“Sugar Town” was a 1966 song performed by American singer Nancy Sinatra, the daughter of Frank Sinatra.

SoftBank Corp. (ソフトバンク株式会社, Sofutobanku Kabushiki-gaisha) is a leading Japanese telecommunications and media corporation, with operations in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-Commerce, Internet, broadmedia, technology services, finance, media and marketing, and other businesses.