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City Pop Radio

[Van Paugam][van] has been putting out [these awesome mixtapes of 1980s Japanese City Pop][mixtapes], and now there’s [a 24/7 streaming channel][link]. It’s hard to argue with that pitch:

> Travel back in time through the haze of memories that aren’t your own, and melodies frozen in a particular place in history.

[van]: http://vanpaugam.com “Van Paugam’s site”
[link]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWfP0f4E_Mo “City Pop Radio”
[mixtapes]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuSh1X0HqVXewI0vDS4-YTg/videos “Van Paugam’s mixtapes”

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Takeshi no Chousenjo is being released for iOS and Android in Japan

The classic Famicom *kusoge* (literal translation: “shitty game”) [is coming to Japan][link], but likely not the US. I’ll have to be happy with my Famicom version.

Related: [This game was Arino-san’s very first challenge on Game Center CX][yt]!

[link]: http://tinycartridge.com/post/164215380587/beat-takeshis-nes-game-is-out-today-on-mobile “Beat Takeshi’s NES game is out today on mobile ⊟… – Tiny Cartridge 3DS – Nintendo Switch, 3DS, DS, Wii U, and PS Vita News, Media, & Retro Junk”
[yt]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMsv0Y7Ny1w “Game Center CX 01 Takeshi no Chousenjou”

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Let’s Help Japan

[Panic Inc. is donating 100% of all profits from their software sold today to the relief efforts in Japan.][link]

[link]: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/03/lets-help-japan/ “Panic Blog » Let’s Help Japan”

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Survivor of Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Dead at 93

[Sounds like he did pretty well, all things considered][link]:

>Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at age 93.

[link]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010600147.html? “Double Atomic bomb survivor dies in Japan – washingtonpost.com”

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Hausu (1977) “Killer Lampshade”

[Stick with this clip][link]. I think by friday it may still be high in the running for most batshit thing I’ve seen all week.

[link]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOBCMoDGGZU “YouTube – Hausu (1977) Killer Lampshade”