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Shibuya monkey evades police for year

By Mark Weitzman On September 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Animals, Celebrities, Humor, Japan
Originally published at LetsJapan, August 20, 2009 Monkey celebrates year of freedom Where is the monkey? That is the question Tokyo residents are asking today on the one year anniversary of the appearance of the lone roamer monkey of Shibuya station. On August 20, 2008, a macaque monkey dashed into Shibuya train station in Tokyo. [...]
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Radiation in Fukushima parks, schoolyards limits playtime

By Mark Weitzman On September 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Japan, News
Originally published at Digital Journal April 25, 2011 Fukushima schools limit outdoor recess time and city implements a one-hour time limit on playground use due to radiation threat to children. Soil removed from school grounds has no place to go. Fukushima Prefecture has implemented time limits for outdoor recess at public schools and for the [...]
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U.S. Army in Japan ‘Operation Soul Train’ clears station debris

By Mark Weitzman On September 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Japan, News
Originally published at Digital Journal, April 29, 2011 U.S. Military involvement in Japan tsunami-earthquake relief and recovery nears end as soldiers clear debris from small-town train station. U.S. Military sea and air units already finished. After the March 11, 2011, magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, U.S. Military personnel assisted in relief and recovery efforts. [...]
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How to find a voiceover talent v.2

By Mark Weitzman On November 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In How to
You want your TV or radio commercial to be noticed among all the other radio ads, right? So choosing a voice that fits your product is important. You can find thousands of voiceover artists on the big voice-casting websites. Or just search using the words voice-over, voiceover, or voice talent, and you’ll find the websites [...]
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How I survived the Japanese earthquake

By Mark Weitzman On March 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Japan, News, People
Originally published at Digital Journal, March 12, 2011 An hour before the 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, I was at home, in my Tokyo apartment, on the second floor of a five-floor ferro-concrete apartment built in the late 1980s and which met all the quake construction codes at the time. You’ve heard that Japan has [...]
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Top 10 Signs Charlie Sheen is an Alien

By Mark Weitzman On March 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Celebrities, Humor, People
Originally published at The Spoof, March 1, 2011 (10) Does not speak any known language. (9) Flying saucer command module beams him down to TV studios for morning show interviews. (8) His veins damaged by radical breaches. (7) His aura melts bones and faces like wax. (6) Fought the Corduroys on the Planet Genatur. (5) [...]
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Freelance Japanese professional voice talents based in Japan

By Mark Weitzman On October 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Press release
Japanese voice talents in Japan who can record voiceovers in their own facility in Japan are now available for global voice-over via Mark Weitzman at Japanesevoiceover.jp. Since 1993, American voice talent Mark Weitzman has been based in Tokyo and has performed English-language narration in Japan for TV and radio commercials, company promotion videos and many [...]
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How to find a voiceover talent v.1

By Mark Weitzman On October 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In How to
What makes a TV or radio commercial stand out from all the others? Certainly the voiceover plays a role. What should you look for when choosing a voice talent? A professional voiceover artist will be able to recognize the emotion appropriate for your ad. The voice talent can  understand the feeling you desire. Some commercials  [...]
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3D TV Glasses Glitch Sees Through TV Clothes

By Mark Weitzman On August 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Humor
Originally published at The Spoof, August 23, 2010 Major electronics manufacturers in Japan are receiving reports that the glasses that are used to view programming on 3D televisions also allow viewers to see through the clothing of people appearing on the TV broadcast. The reports indicate that 3D glasses are affected by the colorful and garish [...]
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How to choose a native Japanese voiceover talent

By Mark Weitzman On June 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In How to
Choosing a voiceover talent for a project that is not in your native language can be difficult. You don’t speak the target language. So how do you know if the foreign language voiceover is correct? Many worldwide voiceover productions need native Japanese voice talents and narrators. In Japan, voice over talents are referred to as [...]
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