今日は子供の日 (Today is Children’s Day).
Families with sons with often decorate their homes with 鯉のぼり (Carp streamers) and Samurai dolls and eat a special meal on this holiday.
Today on 日テレ (Nihon TV) is a semi-annual TV show that I enjoy watching alot.
The show is 「欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞」 (Kinchan & Shingo Katori’s All-Japan Costume Talent Contest).
(click image to go to the show's website)
The last time this showed aired was on 8 January 2009. I wrote a post about it in January, and included a couple YouTube videos of skits from the show. Click here to see that post.
Tonight 「欽ちゃん＆香取慎吾の全日本仮装大賞」 (Kinchan & Shingo Katori’s All-Japan Costume Talent Contest) will be on 日テレ (Nihon TV) from 19:58 – 21:54 (7:58 – 9:54 PM)*.
(* In Japan, television shows are often scheduled to begin and end a couple minutes before the hour (such as 7:58PM). That often seems odd to foreign visitors to Japan).
On this show, a panel of five judges watch people’s skits done with homemade costumes and props and the judges can award the contestants up to four points each (for a total of twenty possible points).
If the contestant earns at least twelve points, they have a chance to win one of the cash prizes.
Here’s another video of a skit from the show (besides the ones I already have on my earlier post here). It’s titled 「スーパーマリオ」 (“Super Mario“). At the end you can see they get the full twenty points…and they’re very excited!
If you’re in Japan, you should watch this TV show tonight. It’s great!
Tokyo Five 
It was on TV again today from 8PM – 9:50PM.
It just ended. Of course, I watched it as always.
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This TV show will be on the air today (Sunday, 2010 Jan 10) at 7PM.
I’ll definitely be watching it, as usual!
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Japanese TV has got to be the best in the world! nothing beats Human Tetris
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/human-tetris-on-japanese-tv-show-haneru-no-tobira/
or Kinchan no Kasoh Taisho
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/the-most-creative-competition-on-tv-anywhere/
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>Japanese TV has got to be the best in the world!
Have you seen my post about some of my favorite shows?
Do you live in Japan?
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It just ended. It was pretty good…as usual!
The first place prize went to the skit titled 「ザ・漫才」 (“The Stand-up Comedians“).
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I think I saw that Super Mario skit as well.
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Are you gonna watch the show tonight?
It starts in about an hour and fifteen minutes.
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I didn’t get a chance to watch it unfortunatly.
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That’s too bad.
You’ll have to wait til next January to see it again.
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I forgot to mention in this post, that “Super Mario” skit shown above was done by a team of 15 college students from 大阪 (Osaka, Japan).
It aired on the show last January. I remember watching it. They did a great job!
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