What do you get when you cross world class athletes and acrobats with crazy Japanese humor? You get an event so weird that it can only be…

Have you ever dreamed about riding on a flying Giant Panda? Perhaps not, but thanks to ANA now you can. ANA has some of the prettiest planes in the sky when they’re painted regularly. But they have had some pretty great [...]

Full wrap-around advertisements on public buses is nothing new. Some catch your eye and others don’t. But there are some that really stand out. These ads don’t use the bus’s flat walls as simple canvases; rather they [...]

Hi everyone. I’ve been away for a while huh? For that, I apologize. I’ve been away and busy for quite some time. With this (challenging) semester of school winding down, I’d like to get SparkPlugged back up and running [...]

Having trouble finding the guitar chords or tabs for some of your favorite Japanese songs? I know I did…until I found XXX SOUND, a Japanese guitar chord/tab…

Have you ever had a song stuck in your head that you didn’t know the title of?

The folks and midomi.com are here to help you. While it’d…

Among the cool things that I picked up in Japan were a handful of free music magazines. Mostly near record store counters and amongst pay-magazines, these 0…

Hey, I figure now’s a good time to take a quick break from the live reports and make a site-related announcement.

I’m looking for 1 or 2…

Hi everyone…Shay is finally back. I’m here and ready to get back into the wonderous groove of things. I’ve actually been back from Japan for almost a…

This may be my last post for a while. I’ll be away from any serious computer time for a few weeks while I’m in Japan. Upon my…