Something else cool we won't get:

Coming soon to Japan: green tea flavored Coca-Cola.
(article foun via snopes.com)

The new green-tea flavored Coke is targeted toward health conscious females and will have the benefit of green tea antioxidants...


Aw, yummy! Do you ever notice how other countries get the coolest sodas? I'm not much of a soda drinker, but I was excited when I finally saw Manzanita Sol hit the shelves over here quite a while ago - a drink I had in Mexico that tasted like biting into a fizzy red delicious, only better. Apparently they even have melon sodas in Japan - it sounds totally worth the trip.

Vocabulary:

お茶　(おちゃ): green tea
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The Marriage Bra

5, 4, 3, 2, 1...You're married!

In the latest news of strange Japanese inventions, we have a bra that counts down the time until a woman gets married.

The Marriage Bra (video)
(msnbc.com)


My computer is horribly slow with videos, but the gist of it seems to be not to count down an actual determined wedding date, but more sort of like the internet death-clock phenomenon; just a piece of fun counting down to an arbitrary date.

(Actually, it sounds more like a curse; like a countdown until I can officially feel pathetic and go adopt 48 cats because the stupid bra-clock lied to me.)

According to the video, the average age of women marrying in Japan has risen to age 28. And if my internet could actually work right I'd give you more info, but you may have to actually watch the video for now :P

More on Japanese weddings:

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2061.html
http://gojapan.about.com/cs/traditionculture/a/japanesewedding.htm

Vocabulary (click on highlighted kanji for stroke order from Kanji-a-Day.com):

結婚する (kekkonsuru): to get married
ウェデイン (uedein): wedding
時 (toki/tokei): time/clock
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