If you happened to have watched Blood: The Last Vampire and stayed till the end of the show, there is a high chance that you would probably find yourself enjoying the theme song called ‘I am XXX’ sung by a very popular Japanese band – Glay.
When it comes to Japanese rock music scene (or more commonly known as Jrock), Glay deemed as one classic commodity. This band can be claimed as one of the most respected music band in Japan, a veteran in their own arena, if not legendary enough. …

Japanese Music Artiste Profile: Tokyo Jihen
Tokyo Jihen is a band created by Shiina Ringo after leaving her solo career, which consist of Shiina Ringo herself as the main vocal and support guitar, Seiji Kameda (bass), Toshiki Hata (drums), Izawa Ichiyou (keyboard), Ryosuke Nagaoka a.k.a Ukigumo (guitar), former member Masayuki Hiizumi (keyboard) and another former member, Mikio Hirama (guitar). The main genre of music that they play are rock and jazz – quite a combination to begin with. Tokyo Jihen, if translated simply means ‘Tokyo Incidents’.
Ironically, I was first introduced to …

I feel a little awkward when my Japanese friend wrote to me complaining about how expensive it is to watch a movie in Japan. Well, generally I know it is expensive to watch a movie there but I didn’t know how expensive it really was right after when she told me how much it costs.
It was like 6 times much expensive than the cinemas around my place! That is probably one of the reason why watching movies at the cinema is not so much of a craze over there. Japanese …