Here is a very important video that you may not have seen. Produced by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, based on a 62-page report about sustainability and self-sufficiency in national food production and consumption, it's way more fun than it has any right to be. Animated in delightful, Lego-colored graphics, set to a bouncy little electronic number, it features full meals raining from the sky like in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, line-dancing livestock, and neatly-dressed workmen engaged in a tug-of-war with an ear of corn. If Washington had an A.V. department this good in the '90s, The Starr Report would have been like Grand Theft Auto (that link is not entirely not NSFW).
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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This is really part of an American plot to kill off the Japanese with Mercury Poisoning.
Watch "The Cove" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313104/
After chowing down on the Western-style meal of cheeseburgers, steaks, flapjacks, Pop Tarts and Velveeta, Taro and Hanaka discreetly retired to their respective squat toilets.
This looks like an infomercial for Soylent Green.
Wow, that's the most jingoistic agriculture video I've ever seen. "Stop dependence on foreign oil food." People might not know that the Japanese rice farmer lobby is a huge supporter of the conservative LDP, which responds with heavy rice tariffs.
I'll be the first to write (but neither first nor last to note) that this is apparently produced by the makers of this awesome Royksoop video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o). I never have been able to figure out who they are, but I imagine they are good looking Scandinavians with bold glasses jetting around the world with bags full of Apple products.