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BenJ
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Location: Nagoya
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 Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:15 am Post subject: Little TV people |
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Watch nearly any channel on TV in Japan and there'll be some edutainment show on. In one of the corners of the screen there is nearly always a box showing someone looking on from presumably a live-studio audience. I can't understand Japanese so I dont really know what this is supposed to be but it seems to me that the person is unrelated to the program - they are just there to show the viewer how to react?
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 1:49 am Post subject: |
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I had the same question too, but it looks so stupid that I don't know if I want to understand.  I think they are friends of the person sometimes or are the TV guests always the same? |
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Buck Turgidson
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| I noticed that too. I also noticed that many of the programs seemed to have subtitles - in Japanese! |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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Don't forget there are a lot of deaf or hearing impaired people in Japan.The subtitles seem to be there when someone says something particularly witty or off the wall.
I have sometimes seen the windows pop up when the topic is a 'tearjerker' or one of these 'candid camera' type shows- they have the studio guests weeping into their hankies or falling of their chairs etc. Like a kind of voyeurism if you ask me. |
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