Japanese Twits: J-MMA on Twitter
I've just discovered a rich mine of Japanese MMA celebrities on Twitter.
The Japanese are furious bloggers; they fastidiously blog on everything, from interesting and completely random things to a near-religious devotion to reporting on what they eat.
Thanks to the Japanese mobile phone industry, which has long been set up to allow the maximum cross compatibility between the internet and mobile phones (all Japanese mobile phones have an email address for text messages that functions like a normal email address), the Japanese have been photoblogging for longer than most of us. They're also all sensitive and stuff, so you'll get former and current MMA champions commenting on the beauty of cherry blossoms.
What's more, in Japanese, one character can say a lot more than a single letter can in English, so they are able to cram much more information into a single tweet.
Enough of that. Time for some stuff! First episode: Pictures!
Caol Uno: Elite level MMA fighter and designer of babies' bibs.
Aoki gets his Strikeforce gloves. Weapons of war.
Aoki "dreams of getting a bed this size." He must sleep on a tiny bed at the moment.
Aoki does peace sign in front of cherry blossoms. Every year, the Japanese go mad about some pink flowers.
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Tapout show Aoki some love!
Next time: What they are saying!
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every phone I saw in four years while living there had one! oops.
and yes, it is sakura time… 日本にかえりたいね!!
Be water, my friend.
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DC loves cherries too
They go crazy over cherry blossoms in DC too. Must be something about those flowers.
Man they are on something...Its my favourite as well.
It is one of the most beautifly sites you will see when they are in bloom. My parents have a Cherry Blossom tree in their backyard. I love it when spring time comes around to see it bloom.





















