Digital Gachapons, Panasonic’s at your door and Amazon “Towers” over the competition! Plus, a couple of fun train stories, Christmas in Japan & a brief history of time, err, LINE. Celebrate the ho-ho-holidays with #ZettaiGeekDayo!

As always, if you have any comments, questions, concerns, topics or you just wanna chat, I’d love to hear from you. Please tweet them at me on Twitter @kayleedayo with the hashtag #ZettaiGeekDayo so I can find them.

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Oh, He’s Making A Cake, Icing It Twice, Gonna Find Out Whose Allergic To Strawberries… ♪

Tech News in Japan

Apple still lets video game developers keep their loot box odds a secret in Japan

「ピンポーン♪」外出先でもスマホで応対、パナソニックがモニター壁掛け式ワイヤレステレビドアホン発売

Osechi (English)

Amazon、高さ1メートル超の「タワーおせち」20万円で発売

板前魂　おせち　板前魂のタワーおせち　和洋中二十一段重

2018年おせち特集 – Amazon.co.jp

最大100万円が当たる「LINEのお年玉」キャンペーンが開催されるぞ!!

Main Stories

History of the Christmas Chicken in Japan

In always-polite Japan, KFC has low-smell fried chicken so you won’t bother people on the train

LINE (software)

How Japan’s Most Popular Messaging App Emerged From The 2011 Earthquake

Monkey Majik – Sendai / SEND愛

Original Two LINE Commercials: “Laugh” & “Cry”

Downfall of Japanese TV’s girl next door highlights wider industry sexism

Fun Stuff

Hypnotic moving map of Tokyo’s crazy rush hour trains almost makes them relaxing

JR Central’s commercial film – Xmas Express Series

(And the parody commercial… :P)

Christmas Eve – Yamashita Tatsuro (山下達郎)

Christmas Eve – Yamashita Tatsuro – Lyrics

See you next week!