I love the Japanese. Yeah, why not, I’ll generalize. Japanese pop-culture is everywhere in Asia, even in countries that have some emotional conflicts with the Japanese. With some odd and cute peculiarities it’s quite obvious that Japanese have a different take on things, in a cool sort of way. It seems that they’ve truly developed one of the most amazing pop cultures in the world — food, fashion, music, etc. Studying Chinese with Japanese folks is a joy-ride of cultural exchanges. It’s almost inspirational.
As a tribute to my lovely Japanese classmates, I’ve collected a few Japanese related articles from recent Israeli blogging articles discussing Japanese peculiarities and hot Japanese pop-culture news…
 
The Globe likes to keep track of the latest weird …

Miss Universe 2007 is coming up, and since I promised I’d follow up with a bit of “hot” and “sexy”…
Miss Universe 2007, the 56th Miss Universe pageant, will take place on 28 May 2007 at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, Mexico. 77 delegates will compete for the title, currently held by Puerto Rico’s Zuleyka Rivera. (Wikipedia)
Last year, 2006, it was the gal from Puerto Rico who took the Miss Universe 2006 title, but I’m …