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goshyesvintageads · 4 months

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Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc, 1971

#Mark II #ad #1971 #economy car #advertisement #Japanese import #automobile #vintage #1970s #night #city view #advertising #retro #70s design

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90sfantasyanimestuff · 6 months

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A tabletop game from Japan

Source: https://github.com/weatherspud/japanese-collectors-list

#powerplay #ttrpg #tabletop gaming #tabletop games #japanese import #fantasy

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ftpadriana · 11 months

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beantownbrownie · 1 year

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10 Highlights from (or soon to be on) Cars & Bids, shot by yours truly:

Source: Me, shot at the Modern Auto Photo Booth for Northeast Auto Imports and Cars & Bids.

#cars #cars of japan #car photography #cars and bids #doug demuro #jdm #japanese import #toyota century #mitsubishi lancer evo #ferrari 456 #mitsubishi delica #bmw m3 #subaru wrx #mitsubishi pajero #nissan silvia #lamborghini gallardo #nissan 240sx

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mikeladano · 4 months

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REVIEW: Extreme - Extragraffitti (1990 Japanese EP)

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#Boston #classic rock #ep #Extragraffitti #extreme #Extreme II: Pornograffitti #Gary Cherone #guitar hero #heavy metal #japanese import #Mack #Nuno Bettencourt #Pat Badger #Paul Geary #Pornograffitti #remixes #rock music #shredders

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myvinylplaylist · 1 year

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Guns N' Roses: “The Spaghetti Incident ?” (1993)

2008 Japanese Limited Edition Reissue SHM-CD

With Obi

Geffen Records

#my vinyl playlist #guns n’ roses #axl rose #slash #duff mckagan #matt sorum #gilby clarke #dizzy reed #izzy stradlin #geffen records #hard rock #heavy metal #classic rock #hair metal #compact disc #japanese import #album cover #album art

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19-ninetyfive · 2 years

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Know your enemy.

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tylerhayward · 1 year

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Car spotting everyday was one of the highlights of the trip. The diversity, the imports, the emphasis on off road specs was refreshing to see and on full display. It’s really fascinating how climate and geography influence the types of vehicles people gravitate towards. Seeing so many Honda elements, Subaru forrester / outbacks and Toyota land cruisers / trd everything was fun.

#ccd #point and shoot #contax tvsd #tvs digital #digicam #portland #cars #japanese import #supra #land cruiser #hummer #ferrari #rivian #cross turismo #contax tvs digital

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fuckyeahvanhalen86-95 · 2 years

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Approximately 60 singles have been globally released from Van Halen's 12 studio albums. Only one of them ever featured a previously unreleased track on the B-side.

Fans who flipped over “Can’t Stop Lovin’ You,” which was released on March 14, 1995, as the third single from the group's Balance album, were treated to a new song called “Crossing Over." It's one of the most experimental tracks in the band’s catalog.

The roots of the song stretched back to 1983, when Eddie Van Halen demoed the track on his own, titling it “David’s Tune” for a friend who had taken his own life. The guitarist handled all the instruments, including drums and bass, and laid down some scratch lyrics. When Sammy Hagar joined the band in 1985, he was eager to flesh it out, but Van Halen rejected the invitation, and the track sat on the shelf for another decade.

Before the recording of Balance, Van Halen’s manager, Ed Leffler, died of cancer, so, in addition to thinking about the death of his own father, Hagar began mentally and lyrically considering the idea of what happens when a person dies and “crosses over” to the other side. According to Uncle Joe’s Record Guide, Eddie Van Halen caved and let the singer use the long-gestating music for what became “Crossing Over.”

Rather than redo the music entirely, the band left the original track with all of Eddie’s instrumentation and minimal vocals. But they remained in only the left channel. New music, with Alex Van Halen on drums and Hagar’s singing, panned across the music in stereo. But as interesting and distinctive as the song may have been, it was left off the album – at least in North America.

There was already a burgeoning controversy with the Balance cover art in Japan, because of its depiction of Siamese twin children on a seesaw. The artwork proved to be a stark reminder to residents of the country of conjoined Vietnamese twins Viet and Duc Nguyen, who were said to have experienced their birth deformity due to the usage of Agent Orange by the U.S. in the Vietnam War. The pair was separated with the explicit assistance of the Japanese Red Cross in 1988 in a highly publicized surgery.

Japanese consumers were so repulsed by the Balance cover art that it deeply affected sales. Warner Music Japan had anticipated some sort of reaction and had a backup image ready to go with just one child on the seesaw for pressings of the album in that country. Released one week later than the original import version, the Japanese edition quickly began to sell better than the U.S. pressing. It was one of the rare cases in Japan where the domestic outsold the import, as the region typically had difficulty selling CDs manufactured there because of the inflated price tag (Balance sold for approximately $4 more).

One of the methods Japan began using to move units of its homegrown products was to include some sort of bonus for fans. In the case of Balance, “Crossing Over” was tacked on to the end of the album, though it wasn’t indicated anywhere on the jacket or physical CD. Fans were clued in only by a sticker on the front and a Japanese insert card contained within the packaging. A similar move would occur when Van Halen released Best of Volume 1 the following year, with the Japanese edition including “Hot for Teacher” and shaving down one of the new tracks featuring David Lee Roth, “Can’t Get This Stuff No More,” to a radio edit. A sticker of the band logo was inserted into the package as well.

Van Halen's U.S. fans soon caught wind of the bonus track found on the Japanese edition of Balance, leading many to scramble to get a copy, often for two times the cost or more of a traditional LP. So, the band decided to add “Crossing Over” as the B-side to the “Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” single, touting it as a “non-album track” on various configurations of the release worldwide.

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kurumaimports · 1 year

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KEI TRUCKS!! www.kurumaimports.com

#kuruma imports #kuruma #JDM #JDM cars #jdmlifestyle #japanese #Japanese import #japan #RHD #rhd life #rhdcars

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goshyesvintageads · 10 months

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Nissan Motor Co, 1976

#Datsun #ad #1976 #B-210 #hatchback #advertisement #Japanese import #car #1970s #advertising

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eirianerisdar · 20 days

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Scrolling through the tags on just waking up and did a bunch of people mass hallucinate something in the cooldown room

This is the full video of the cooldown room and in it Max wasn’t insulting Carlos at all? If you don’t clip it out of context this is what is said:

Carlos (to Max): you never thought of a one-stop?

Max: *shrugs* I mean we could have done it but it was for us probably a little bit slower. And you are just struggling with the tyres, you know what I mean?

(Max goes to sit down. Checo looks at Carlos)

Checo: Charles was strong eh, today?

Carlos: Quite strong.

(They go to sit to watch the highlights)

There is nothing here that suggests Max is insulting Carlos’s tyre management. If anything he’s generally saying that Red Bull chose a two stop to avoid any unnecessary struggle with the tyres. The most popular “Red Bull is hating on Carlos” cooldown room clip going around specifically cuts off before Carlos replies to Checo.

It’s an exercise in media literacy. Take a clip out of its full context and add some sound effects and you have false media.

#I cannot believe what I’m seeing #media literacy is important #f1 #max verstappen #Sergio Perez #carlos sainz #Japanese gp 2024 #my post

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ftpadriana · 11 months

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#g35 #infiniti #jdm #jdmcars #dark aesthetic #nissan #cars #drift phonk #drifting #japanese import #cute cats #terrifier #bay area

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turtledotjpeg · 2 months

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melody leorio and kurapika somehow find a chance to take a break and Chill together (I don't know how or when, but I want it for them lol)

for a vday exchange in discord!! this was right up my alley hehe, was very excited to draw these three again ^_^

#was lazy and got the floor texture from an unsplash photo ^^;#btw it's probably not worth the time to decipher but kurapika is reading a real life book. some important literature #may or may not have put a bit too much effort into converting it from english to japanese to hunter text (wikipedia helped thanks wikipedia #hunter x hunter #hxh #leorio paladiknight #melody hxh #senritsu #kurapika #leomelopika #leokurasen #<- prompt was for queerplatonic gen romantic or otherwise & i think this could be interpreted as any one of those as you prefer!

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mikeladano · 9 months

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REVIEW: Extreme - Six (2023 Japanese import)

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#classic rock #extreme #Gary Cherone #hard rock #heavy metal #japanese import #Kevin Figueiredo #Nuno Bettencourt #Pat Badger #Six

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eternallovers65 · 9 months

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Just saw someone on Twitter complain about the lack of Japanese people in Oppenheimer, and what did you expect??? Did you want the final act to be the bomb dropping and see people burning alive???

The reason why we don't see a Japanese perspective is because one, including a Japanese perspective, just to see how bad the suffering was would be exploitation. Two, to see an accurate and sensitive take on how the japanese felt about Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan (as incredible as he is) isn't the right person to do this. And three, it's based on Oppenheimer's biography

Oppenheimer, the movie, literally shows you people (mostly the superiors, because by the middle/end of it you see Oppenheimer regretting his creation) doing something dubious and inhumane because they removed themselves away, both emotionally and physically, from the people they are hurting.

Nagasaki and Hiroshima only exist in those men's distant thoughts and imaginations. One guy literally asks to take a city off the bombing because that's where he had his honeymoon. It's disturbing and unsettling, as if those people were not real human beings. The lack of Japanese people drives the entire point home.

Also, Japanese cinema is right there. Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, or Hiroshima (responsible for showing to many Americans the effects of the bombs for the first time) are just a few of the many, many decades of post-war Japanese movies we have

#important to say this just my opinion and im more than glad to talk and discuss about it #also i dont think a single person left this movie thinking Oppenheimer was the greatest person ever or left as a pro atomic bomb #you could literally feel the entire room's tension after the trinity test scene and what that meant when they succeeded #as the movie ended almost everyone was in silence i left that room in complete silent #its also important to say that although i do say the scientists didn't thought about the suffering japanese people would go through #this is more a dig forwards the superiors not the scientists because a lot of the scientists (Oppenheimer included) were jewish #so they were creating that people with the sole purpose of stoping the nazis and not hurt civilians #also to the people that keep saying 'oh what was japan doing/dont act like japaneses were innocent' dude i get what youre saying #but do you honestly believe all those civilians deserved that??? they were civilians not all of them agreed to what was happening #oppenheimer #oppenheimer 2023 #barbenheimer #christopher nolan #cilian murphy

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