Some scenes backstage from Paradise TVs Weather Report. Their managaer of international sales takes Captain Japan and TokyoDV on a tour of their studio in Tokyo, Japan.
“… The chaos continues: flapping newspapers flutter past (with one momentarily clinging to her forehead); snow begins falling; and more clothing vanishes. In the end, she is covered in a dusting of white flakes and a grin.
This is what the channel’s subscribers want.
“The first few years were confusing,” says Kenichiro of Paradise, which started its 24-hour broadcasting in 1998. “Four or 5 years ago there was no marketing. We just made whatever we wanted. But right now we just ask our viewers: ‘What kind of program do you want to watch?’”
Their feedback has resulted in wacky, perverted programming – Paradise’s trademark. This “stupid” style has not only been a success domestically but it has also gained a select following overseas. For Paradise, though, pleasing their subscribers through both live and pre-recorded shows is simply one factor; they also must – as surprising as it might sound – maintain an element of decency…”
Valentines Day is unique in Japan; only women give gifts. (Although, there are signs this is changing). Men give white chocolate one month later; White Day on March 14th..
Why? I think it helps men avoid social mistakes of what to give to whom. Although, it mainly has to do with chocolate companies creating another lucrative holiday.
Actually, this video doesnt have much to do with Japanese Valentines Day, but it was released around that time. (What you see in the video is more common on Christmas; Christmas is ‘dating’ season in Japan..)
I stumbled into an adult shop and filmed some of the items on sale. Youll see magic mushrooms (now illegal), and other types of stimulants. There are also some shots of popular love hotels in Shibuya.. Sex, drugs, and love hotels.
The television studio is a sparse mix of a wall map and two green plants. As the weather anchor begins reading the next days forecast snow in Niigata and sunny skies across Kanto a gust of wind suddenly knocks her to one side.
Though giggling slightly, the journalist straightens her top-heavy frame and continues, fumbling a few lines but maintaining eye contact with the rolling camera while she firmly grips her notes.
The breeze increases, so much so that her black skirt and white long sleeves suddenly disappear in the rush, leaving the determined newswoman clad in only lace panties and an extremely loose-fitting black bra in which to announce the rain in Sendai.
Two Japanese cosplay girls fight on stage at an erotic show in Shibuya. This event was tame that evening.. The nightmares finally stopped a few months ago..
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