Lens for video camera introduced in this video is “FUJINON XA99x8.4″ invented by FUJIFILM.  This can zoom 99 times from wide-angle 8.4mm, and this has the aspect of use for sports and various events.  Due to the new optical protection against vibration function, this is strong against vibration rather than the conventional products.
I thought the conventional products are enough as long as watching the soccer or baseball matches, the pursuing stance is very amazing.

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The person shows the sensitive but impacted works is the collage artist, Mr.Mikito Ozeki.
He holds the personal expositions, and brings his works to foreign group expositions.  He acts worldwide.  
Usually, collage in Japan seemed to be developed as the form of dying which craftsman for dying goods.  I think we could say the Mr.Ozeki’s works are modern arts.  How foreigners react by watching his works and that procedure?

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This video is one scene of “The Self-Defense Forces Festival” held at Nihon Budokan annually.
More than 100 members play various types of Wadaiko.  The title is “This is a Japanese drum line!” Yes. It’s exactly like Japanese drum line!

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Making a line and wait for Shinkansen.
Many people might have seen the people seeing off.  The most famous people might be people who clean Shinkansen by making a line 3 minutes before it comes to the platform.

These people are employees of the cleaning company “Tessei”, and they should manage cleaning cars, toilet and removing trashes in 7 minutes.
It is said the French President of National Railways Corporation said “Please export this service to my country” by watching their warm and rapid work.
Foreigners react to these supporters behavior?  
Comments are from the other related video, too. 

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It’s the sports festival at Japanese highschool filmed by a foreign exchange student.
The first sports festival in Japan is by Navel academy in Meiji 7.
This event was held by the English teacher’s guidance.  The sports festival itself seemed to be spread with influence from western countries,  but the style which has many activities seems to be Japanese original.  In western countries, the festival seems to be separated on each activities.   
Because of the influence from Japan, Taiwan and Korea seem to have same style of sports festival.   

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The scanner in this video is “BFS-Auto” invented by Dai Nippon Printing and the research team of Tokyo University.  This can scan 250 pages in one minute.
It is required to make a flat condition to prevent warping with the conventional scanner, but this could scan every pages by leafing through a book.
This scanner is scheduled to be used as books electronic service such as library collection books in 2013, and also is under consideration of  direct sales.  Electronic books are spreading, and this scanner might have high demand.

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Compared to the other countries, it is said roads in Japan are clean.
In this video, one man is cleaning the public road.  
Japanese have the basic common sense, “don’t throw away on the street”, and there are many people who clean the roads independently as the man in this video.  Because of these facts, it might be said that “Roads in Japan are clean”.

The video owner said this man is “hero”.  How about foreigners’ reaction?

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The singer who sings Japanese lyrics in very beautiful pronunciation is an American singer from Manhattan, Alex York.  
According to his homepage,

he started studying with his deep interest, studied Japanese culture at Yale university, and these Japanese lyrics are written by him.  
The first video is “AMERICAN BOY”, based on his experience in Japan.  Second song, “CHANGE” is created with the thought for Japan got damaged by the earthquake, as you see in the subtitle.  
Mr. York donated 20% of his activity profit.  You could buy his works at iTunes.
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This video was posted on Youtube a long ago, but this becomes a popular video because the channel which has many readers uploaded this, and foreign site introduced this.  This has 1800 comments in two days.
This errand Penguin is Lala-chan stayed with one family in Kagoshima.  Unfortunately she passed away.  She was saved while she was stuck in the fish net.  After the treatment, she stayed at home, so the family decided to have her as a pet.  The family prepared a cooler room for Lala-chan.
There is a scene that Lala-chan swallow a big fish.  Fish dealer seemed to give her a fish as a reward.  This reward might make her move, but her intelligence is amazing.

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It’s about foreigners’ reaction to training scene at Keirin school.
Japan Keirin School in Izu-shi, Shizuoka.
As the name is, this is the facility for people aiming to be a professional cyclist (national qualifications).  They need to owe food expenses and wearing fee, but school fee is free.
In this video, we could see their training scene at Bicycle rollers.   It is very hard for amateurs even to ride on this roller, but trainees pump pedals so fast.

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