Author: ageekinjapan

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Anime JapaneseTV

Learn how to pee and poo with Shimajiro

Shimajiro is an anime character who is featured in many educative DVDs/merchandising/products for kids. My friend Sato explained me how having Shimajiro’s DVD complete collection helped him a lot to teach his two kids “lots of stuff”. It looks like Shimajiro is a great educator. One of the things you can learn with Shimajiro is how to go to the toilet. In this video you can see the episode where Shimajiro learns how to pee and poo.

At the end of the video an interesting device with two buttons and a Shimajiro face is featured, one of the buttons is used for peeing and the other one for pooping. I didn’t find this device on the net, but I found the “chair”, you can buy it here.

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Society

This is how a new era begins

I found an interesting video, showing the exact moment when Japan changed from Showa (昭和) era to Heisei (平成) era in 1989 when Hirohito emperor died. It was the first time that a era change was broadcasted on TV:

Right now it’s the year 19 of Heisei’s era which is the same as 2007 in the western world. The era based system is only used in history books, in some newspapers, in coins/bills/stamps and also in official documents and forms where you have to input your date of birth depending on the era. For example I was born in the year 56 Showa (昭和). For other stuff they usually use the western system based on our current Christian era.

I wonder when we will change era in the western world…

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Various

Pick up your dog's shit

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