{"id":292,"date":"2009-06-09T15:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2009-06-10T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:13:19","slug":"japanese-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/09\/japanese-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a funny blog post about Japanese TV:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaijinsmash.net\/archives\/drivel_in_a_box_1.phtml\">http:\/\/www.gaijinsmash.net\/archives\/drivel_in_a_box_1.phtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like Japanese TV has remained pretty much the same since I&#8217;ve been there.<\/p>\n<p>I actually like Japanese variety shows, or to be more specific, the segments they show during it. It&#8217;s fun to watch a Japanese dude staying with some tribe in Africa hunting lions or cute, newly-wed housewives around the world cooking their husband a home-style breakfast in their cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>One particular interesting bit I remember was when they compared the total monetary value of gifts \uff08called \u8ca2\u304e\u7269\uff09 given to Shinjuku&#8217;s top host and hostess. It looked like the top host would win with a luxury car when at the very end the hostess remembers, &#8220;Oh yeah, that condo I&#8217;m living in was also a gift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What I <b>CANNOT STAND<\/b> in variety TV is watching the reactions and discussions by celebrities after <i>they<\/i> watch the segments. WHY AM I WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE WATCHING TV?? Maybe I should gather some friends and make a video of us watching celebrities watching TV. Then I can make a video of us again watching <i>that<\/i> video. Geesh.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in my opinion, Japanese TV is way better than US programming. Also, I think they were doing reality shows before they really took off in the US and it never seemed to descend to the level of trash like &#8220;Flavor of Love&#8221;. For instance, \u300c\u3042\u3044\u306e\u308a\u300d started over 6 months before the first season of Survivor (ugh).<\/p>\n<p>By the way, my wife LOVES London Hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a funny blog post about Japanese TV: http:\/\/www.gaijinsmash.net\/archives\/drivel_in_a_box_1.phtml Looks like Japanese TV has remained pretty much the same since I&#8217;ve been there. I actually like Japanese variety shows, or to be more specific, the segments they show during it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/09\/japanese-tv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}