Category: Japan

Candies Switch To Sanyo 18 Incher

Sanyo was founded by Toshio Iue (井植 歳男 Iue Toshio, 1902 – 1969), the brother-in-law of Konosuke Matsushita and also a former Matsushita employee, in 1947 and was incorporated in 1950. The company’s name means three oceans in Japanese, referring to the founder’s ambition to sell their products worldwide, across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

Commonly, remote controls are used to issue commands from a distance to televisions or other consumer electronics such as stereo systems and DVD players. Remote controls for these devices are usually small wireless handheld objects with an array of buttons for adjusting various settings such as television channel, track number, and volume.

[Candies] had two mega-hit songs:”春一番”(Haruichiban, the spring-heralding gale.) and “年下の男の子”(toshishita_no_otokonoko,The younger boy). Candies was a representative idol group of Japan in the 1970s along with Pink Lady.

Toyota Human Touch

Toyota Motor Corporation or Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki-gaisha or Toyota is a Japanese multinational corporation and the world’s second largest automaker (including sales of its half owned subsidiary Daihatsu), making automobiles, trucks, buses and robots and providing financial services. Based in Toyota, Aichi, Japan, the company boasted a total vehicle production of 9.018 million vehicles in 2006. It is also the world’s eighth largest company with revenue of $185 billion as of 2006.

creepy

1. producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one’s skin
2. strangely repulsive

Japanese Dominoes

Other than playing games of strategy, another common pastime using domino tiles is to stand them on edge in long lines, then topple the first tile, which falls on and topples the second, which topples the third, etc., resulting in all of the tiles falling. Arrangements of thousands of tiles have been made that have taken several minutes to fall.

デヴィ・スカルノ（Dewi Soekarno、1940å¹´2月6æ—¥ – )は、東京都出身のタレント。インドネシア大統領（初代）・スカルノの夫人（4人の夫人の内の第3夫人）であり、本名は、ラトナ・サリ・デヴィ・スカルノ（Ratna Sari Dewi Soekarno）。なお、命名したのはスカルノ。サンスクリット語で「宝石の聖なる女神」という意味である。インドネシア元大統領夫人であるが日本生まれである。元の日本名は、根本七保子（ねもと なおこ）。愛称は「デヴィ夫人」。血液型はA型。株式会社デヴィーナ・ソサエティ代表取締役。日本を代表するセレブである。