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Now for some Japanese pop culture:

Watanabe Yoichi is a recent addition to the regular group of gei-nin who frequent Japanese television.  His trademark outfit can be seen here.

He is always introduced as "The war photographer" or "The war cameraman."  My limited understanding is that he has written a book and also maintains a popular blog about his experiences throughout the world, including covering conflict in Rwanda.

Within the last two weeks he has suddenly become a high demand figure for the type of Japanese variety show which dominates the airwaves.  He appears to be popular in part because of his distinctive speaking style, which you can see below:




Don't ask me what he's saying.  All I know is he's sharing a film which he watches often/likes.  He mentions the English conversation and says that it is an important film.  He may speak slowly, but I find his vocabulary difficult to understand.

This last weekend I went to a beautiful place in Japan and was reminded why I like Japan: Facebook Photo Album