Entertainment in Japan

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Entertainment in Japan

Taste Wine and Enjoy

Entertainment: Like to Entertain?

One idea is to host a wine tasting party at home. Even in Japan our small apartments are big enough to have some friends over and enjoy a wine tasting with good food. Joanne shares some ideas for entertainment in

Japan and elsewhere.

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A friend in Japan put me onto these guys. He said the problem with Justin.TV is that they often won`t broadcast in Japan, youget to Justin.TV, click on the channel and it says that it is full for your part of the world. These guys give youthe channels and it is free!

This is my new favourite for watching sports and TV for free.

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TV Guide

TV GUIDE

You think that one year or even two or three is not such a long time away from home. Yet it is.

There will be many things that you miss. One simply will be your local television. Watching your favourite TV shows, movies in English, or catching your favourite sports team in action.

Twenty years ago when I came, I was out of luck except for catching the occasional movie released much later than home, at a theater in Japan. Or renting one at a local video shop. They often didn`t have the movie I wanted to watch however.

Those days are gone. I am astounded at the internet and the progress it has made. I love the Vancouver Canucks hockey team and have been watching them live from my countryside town in Japan--for free! There are Canadians who can`t say that.For sports, Channel Surfing, is one of the best sites, I feel. As long as it works for you and your computer. It has everything and it is free!

TSN -- The Sports Network

TSN is most famous in Canada for being the number one sports channel. They offer archived games at their site. If you don`t watch the news it is like watching the game live.

Check out TSN`s archived hockey games and other sports at their site.

As for TV shows and movies, you can watch them for free on your computer too. Just check out the following links for free TV you can watch right on your computer in Japan or pretty much anywhere in the world with internet.

Here are some of my favourites: Justin.tv One of my favourite channels for free movies and for very reasonably priced movies that stream on your computer is Jaman. Jaman offers many kinds of movies and a lot of them are free. At Free tube they have many different kinds of channels and literally over a hundred of them. The range is huge. Just under the heading at their website--"Educational," the channels run the gamut from Archaeology TV, the Art Channel, to Nasa TV and National Geographic.

And there are many genres to choose from. Then of course they offer free movies too.

"How do they do it? How do they offer these incredible prices? They`ve got to be crazy!"

(Sorry I suddenly became a TV furniture salesman for a moment.) There was this guy called the Captain, he was a furniture salesman in Canada and did his own TV commercials. I liked him because his commercials were sooooo bad, they were funny. Kind of like my jokes! You can indeed get red eyes watching Free tube imbd.com otherwise known as the Internet Movie Database is now offering free movies along with their excellent and voluminous offerings of movie reviews. They just gave me another reason to go to their site. The amazingly comprehensive OV Guide is another must see. They offer movies from all over the world and seem like a very wellstocked movie rental outlet back home--imagining the outlet was five stories and offered thousands of movies. Run to the OV Guide and check them out. Many of the movies are free. Of course there is YouTube. And you can watch some movies and TV shows there, along with music videos and pretty much anything else you can imagine. You can check out You Tube for free. Veoh claims that they are different. They in fact are revolutionary they argue. At Veoh they promise that they will give you the power to easily discover, watch and personalize your online viewing experience.

Okay I`m sold. Veoh is free as well. I love all this free stuff!!!!

Check out Veoh to see for yourself.

Anime, Manga & Japanese Film

Entertainment in Japan: Jibiri Studio and other Anime

Many Westerners have grown up reading manga and watching anime.

Japan Living: On Anime & Japanese Films

Back to the Japan Living Section

Anime and Japanese Films are other forms of Entertainment in Japan.

by Jason Taisha

While I enjoy well-made anime, it seems that Japan's live-action film industry suffers by comparison. Of Japanese-made films, most of the top-grossing ones in Japan each year are animated, and mostly aimed at children.

Comedy Anyone?

Entertainment in Japan: Tokyo`s Comedy Store

The comedians of Tokyo`s Comedy Store are surprisingly funny.Even I have been known to perform there (ages ago). For many laughs check out the store that

has been keeping us laughing for many years!

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Want to shoot your friends in the head?

If so you might want to hang out at the War Zone. It is a paint ball and survival game center in Chiba and they have professional instructors with real world, military experience to teach you how to blow Herb`s head off with a paintball gun. Not literally of course, but it sure is fun to see Herb your college buddy from back home with paint all over him.
Shoot your friends in Chiba!

Entertainment in Japan -- Paddy Field Irish Band

Paddy Field is a good-time Irish trad band which plays regularly in Tokyo Irish pubs. Here, live at Shibuya Dubliners, every 4th Wed./month.Tune is Midnight on the Water, great American old-time waltz by Jay Ungar.

Members: Scott Van Dusen-mandolin, Jim Ediger-fiddle, Barry Phillips-bodhran & vocal, Paul Gilson-guitar.

Metropolis Media Blog

Is a guide to media, games reviews and what`s going on in Japan, entertainment-wise. Find out where to eat and drink or what`s happening in Arts and Entertainment.