Avi Landau on May 22nd, 2008

On days when the light is just right and there is very little chance of rain, you might get lucky and find a colorful collection of super heroes and monsters battling it out at Tsukuba Center. For many years, TV production companies have been using the Lion Pit between the Okura Hotel and the Right-On [...]

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Shaney on December 30th, 2006

There will be a TV show on tomorrow (January 1) called “The 44th New Years Parlour Tricks Competition 2007” in which two teams will compete in a taiko tournament. The teams are WaT and Ungirls (アンガールズ), which I assume are comedy teams (I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I’m just guessing here). [...]

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Avi Landau on November 7th, 2008

Like a little goateed munchkin, or a Japanese version of one of the seven dwarves, the mascot of the 23rd Annual National Culture Festival (kokumin bunka-sai, or kokubun-sai for short), which this year is being held in our very own Ibaraki Prefecture, can be seen practically everywhere these days, adorning posters, leaflets, packages, and most noticeably the banners fluttering outside convenience stores [...]

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Good news to the Tsukuba parents. ACCS has extended the time to air Nickelodeon to 6pm starting yesterday. ACCS used to air Nickelodeon only from 6:00am to 12:50pm on channel J706, then changed to 6:00am to 3:00pm. Now ACCS viewers can watch Nickelodeon until 6:00pm! (Okay, too much TV is no good, but it might [...]

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RrFish on May 30th, 2007

I should’ve posted this days ago, but I completely forgot to do that(sorry!).
ACCS, a Tsukuba’s cable company, is airing the 30-miniute long “Tsukuba Festival Report” three times a day this week! I’d be fun to watch this if you were interviewed by the camera guy, or if you missed the festival and want to know [...]

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