Browsing around Japan using Google maps I came across this village where they use a peculiar system to name the different rice fields. One single hiragana, katakana or kanji is used for each different field. I have only seen this naming system in this town, but maybe it is more usual than I think. Can somebody englighten us?
The art using rice fields is maybe a little bit more interesting than this boring maps plenty of Japanese characters.
Komatsu is a kid with a great music talent and a special hability to play video game music, specially the music in Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Japanese people love the video game series Dragon Quest which is almost unknown outside of Japan, but here is even more popular than Final Fantasy. I really like Dragon Quest melodies and I have recently started playing Dragon Quest IX, which has been recently released in Japan.
Komatsu started putting his videos in YouTube but he became so popular that eventually he was on television playing music from his favorite video games:
More videos of Komatsu in action.
The Otamatone is a new musical instrument/gadget created by MaywaDenki that was presented in the last Tokyo Game Show at the end of September. Basically, it is kind of like a theremin but with buttons and… a mouth!
In this last video one of the employees of the company that has created the Otamatone explains in detail how it works:
Via Nopuedocreer.
