My first car in Japan was a Nissan Skyline.
The Skyline is a nice car!
So, it was a nice surprise when I went to the shopping mall today with my family (in the car we have now, a Toyota) and I saw that they had vintage Nissan Skyline cars from the 1950s to the 1990s on display!
Here are a few photos I took:
1957 Nissan Skyline:
1962 Nissan Skyline:
1965 Nissan Skyline:
Mine wasn’t this old. I had a 1986 Nissan Skyline Turbo years ago.
It seems that an upcoming episode of the American TV show “The Simpsons” will have the characters in the worlds of Japan’s Studio Ghibli!
Studio Ghibli is the creators of the excellent Japanese anime movies such as “My Neighbor Totoro”, “Spirited Away”, etc.
I would like to see that Simpsons episode!
Here’s a preview for it:
How many characters / movies from Studio Ghibli can you spot?
Seventy-two years ago today, 1941 December 7th (U.S. time), the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the U.S. Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
And tomorrow, 2013 December 8th, will be the thirty-third anniversary of John Lennon’s murder.
Also, the iconic Nelson Mendela died at the age of 95 the day before yesterday (2013 December 5th).
Yesterday was the Thanksgiving Day holiday in America.
I like Thanksgiving. And I like my daughters to know about their U.S. heritage.
So, lucky for me, my wife is an excellent cook!
She makes a wonderful, American-style Thanksgiving dinner for us every year!
In honor of the holiday, everyone should watch one of the greatest comedy movies ever … 「 大災難P.T.A. 」(“Planes, Trains and Automobiles”) !
It’s a man’s crazy adventure to get home to his family for Thanksgiving.
Have you ever watched this movie before?
Eric Carr, the former drummer for KISS, died twenty-two years ago today.
Here’s Eric Carr with KISS at the Budokan in Tokyo in 1988:
It’s November 22nd (2013). Former U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated fifty years ago today.
JFK, 1917 May 29th – 1963 Nov 22nd, RIP
(His daughter, Caroline Kennedy, has recently become the U.S. ambassador to Japan, by the way. Click here to read my post about that.)
I was born in November 1969. Six years after the JFK assassination. My parents were junior high school students back then…so, of course, they remember that day well.
Since I hadn’t been born yet, I obviously have no memory of that event in history.
The earliest historical event that I can remember is the U.S. bi-centennial in July 1976. I was only six years old, so I didn’t really understand it…but I seem to remember it somewhat.
The earliest historical event that I can remember clearly and that I understood was was the U.S. diplomats in the U.S. embassy in Iran being taken hostage in 1979. There were yellow ribbons tied to trees, car radio antennas, etc all over America.
How about you?
Do you remember the JFK assassination? What are your memories?
What other historical events do you remember?
The Japanese anime “Akira” predicted over 30 years ago that the 2020 Olympics would be hosted by Tokyo!
http://junkee.com/akira-predicted-the-2020-tokyo-olympic-games-way-back-in-1982
Did you know that there are aliens in Tokyo?
Have you ever seen these aliens in Tokyo?
Do you know where they are?
I’ll give you a hint: Do you know where 「中野ブロードウェイ」is?
Tell me some of the worst movies you’ve ever watched.
As for me … here are some movies that I’ve had the misfortune of enduring:
Lost In Translation
2001
The Shining
Forrest Gump
サンシャイン 2057 (Sunshine 2057)
Have you seen any of those?
What did you think of them?
What are some movies you hated?
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