10 Cool Japanese Foods

A list of ten tasty traditional-style Japanese cuisine that are a must try when travelling in Japan. If you are game enough you should also try this list of ten weird Japanese foods too.

1. Yakitori 「焼き鳥」

Skewered chicken pieces that are grilled over hot charcoals.

2. Sukiyaki 「すき焼き」

Thinly sliced beef and vegetables simmered in a shallow iron pot in a mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin.

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Aussie Rules Football Enlists First Ever Japanese-Born Player

G’day! This is Nunnster, long term subscriber of loneleeplanet. Having always enjoyed the articles on this site about the lighter side of Japanese culture, it is indeed an honour to be invited to provide the following guest article, reporting from Australia.

Sean Yoshiura created history by being the first ever Japanese-born player to be signed by an Australian Rules Football League (AFL) club. The 18 year-old Tokyo-born wingman was signed as a rookie by the AFL club Brisbane Lions. A world-class schoolboy cross country runner, he moved to Australia with his Japanese father and Tasmanian mother when he was seven.

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Hitler Rants About His Investment In Japan

There have been numerous parodies of the infamous scene from the 2004 German-Austrian drama film Downfall (German: Der Untergang) that depicts Hitler’s furious outburst to his generals when he realizes that the war is lost.

In this parody (embedded video below) Hitler rants about Japan being uninvestable only to find out from his generals that his asset allocation is overweight in Japan, being 10% over the index weighting.

Hitler explodes yelling amongst other things:

“The domestic economy is doomed to never ending decline with its population base“

“It is just an old folks home run by gangsters and bureaucrats”

“Even the quality of the strippers and hostesses has been deteriorating”

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