They have been popular online for a while but the other day I came across again one of the Human Tetris videos. It is one of the events in a popular Fuji TV show that began three years ago. The events
in the show are similar to those in the popular Takeshi’s Castle. In fact many of the producers of Takeshi’s Castle work now in this new show in Fuji TV.
I came across this interesting stuffed blowfish. Now you can see why it is called “blowfish” or “ballonfish”. Fugu or blowfish usually have this appearance when they are calm, but when they get angry they inflate themselves until they acquire quite a spherical shape. When they inflate themselves they turn into a balloon with spikes, its poison is one of the most dangerous in the world.
If you travel to Japan and want to try fugu there are a lot of specialized restaurants that only serve fugu cooked in different ways. To recognize a fugu restaurant is quite easy because they usually have an aquarium plenty of blowfish at the entrance to the restaurant:
One of the restaurant waiters fishing a fugu for one of the clients.
There are still many arcade game centers in Japan plenty of video game arcade machines; they are known in Japan simply as “game centers”. One of the companies owning many of the game centers in Japan is Sega. Although Sega stopped producing its own video game consoles a while ago, they have continued until today in the arcade business, specially focusing on the Japanese market. This is one of the entrances to one of the biggest Sega game centers in Shibuya, specialized in arcade machines “for adults”.
