Today, I’m bringing you Green Tea 抹茶(matcha) Kit Kat キットカット Chocolate cookie wafer bars. Originally only sold in Kyoto as a souveneir item and now it’s available at all convenience stores around Japan. Boy it is good!

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Cyril Takayama, the ever popular street magic marvel in Japan is on the new MTV show Room 401. From the producers of Punked (Ashton Kutcher) it’s a show where they use magic to create eerie, supernatural situations to scare the hell out of people.
Cyril Takayama is in part 4 of 4 of that episode (last [...]

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Do you remember plugging quarters into any versions of Street Fighter 2? I remember when we would wake up at 6am to walk in the rain to our local donut shop to play just so no one would challenge us (of course after all that practice there was no need to do that later on…he [...]

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The movie “Hana Yori Dango Final” “花より男子ファイナル” will release in theatres all over Japan on Saturday 6/28/08. Myself as well as many fans eagerly await that day. Cannot wait to see it!
Have you seen the Japanese drama “Hana yori Dango” “花より男子” also known as “Boys Over Flowers”?
Don’t watch the movie until you have seen Hana [...]

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This was the first exposure I had of Cyril early in 2007 and I immediately was mesmerized with his magic. Watching this scene I was thinking “Man, I wish I could do that!” (and don’t we all!!).
I think they were in front of a MOS burger shop when he did this trick. All my [...]

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Cyril Takayama dresses up to become the oldest magician in the world: Grandpa Cyril. He heads to the bowling alley, entertains the Japanese customers there and tries to bowl.
We love watching his magic in action. He takes street magic and makes it fun to watch for everyone!
He is currently on tour throughout Japan for the [...]

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Japanese tricks of the trade for life in Japan all in a book by Lisa Katayama. Useful book to have for unique remedies and natural solutions.
Written by Lisa Katayama:
When it comes to life and getting things done, we like to do things a little differently in Japan. When I break a glass in the kitchen, [...]

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The famous magician Cyril Takayama has just finished hosting Japan’s MTV Video Music Awards VMA 2008 on May 31st. Here are the promotional CM videos for the event shown around Japan. Performers included Fergie, Nelly, Mariah Carey, Exile (Japan), Amuro Namie (Japan).

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In this video Cyril Takayama walks into a grocery store where patrons are bagging their items* and he looks for a specific item…
*In many large Japanese grocery stores (like JUSCO and Max Value) patrons / customers bag their own groceries now.
Do you know Cyril? He has become quite popular and well known all over Japan, [...]

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The beautiful model and actress Yuri Ebihara and well known model and actress Ryoko Shinohara star in this Shiseido CM.
Yuri Ebihara (better known as “Ebi Chan” – Ebi stands for Shrimp) is a popular model and also does Japanese dramas. Earlier this year she was promoting the Ebi Filet-O (Shrimp version of McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish). [...]

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In this video make-up artists transform Cyril Takayama into Grandpa Cyril or “セロ(pronounced Sero) おじちゃん” and he goes around Japan undercover performing magic to unknowing patrons.

Do you know Cyril? He has become quite popular and well known all over Japan, Korea and now over Asia.

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Rena Tanaka is an attractive and popular TV personality / actress in Japan.
She arrived onto the scene in 1998 doing commercials for Suntory Drinks, JR Train Line, etc. and winning many awards for best new talent that very same year.
Her focus started with CM / Commercials and she continues to do them every year but [...]

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