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Randi's Japanese spot

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Randi says he's going to be in Japan shooting an investigation, that's going to be shown in Japan very soon.

I'm sure that a version will appear on youtube soon that I can watch, but my girlfriend lives in Japan and I want to tell her when and where it will be on live.

So, anyone know the channel and date/time his segment will be shown ?
 
I did a quick search of Japanese TV listings, but I could not find anything. I didn't see anything in Randi's latest commentary. Where did you hear this information?

Welcome to the forum. :D
 
It'll air on Monday, the 18th on (I think) Channel 4 at 10 pm (Nihon television).

The program is called GetsuYoru.
 
Thanks! I'll try to remember to tune in!

Most of the commercial (non-NHK) TV stations here generally provide an uncritical platform for psychics and the like, and promote lots of silliness including blood-type personality theory and fortune telling based on blood type. I usually mostly watch NHK.
 
Thanks! I'll try to remember to tune in!

Most of the commercial (non-NHK) TV stations here generally provide an uncritical platform for psychics and the like, and promote lots of silliness including blood-type personality theory and fortune telling based on blood type. I usually mostly watch NHK.

Ah, blood type. Of all the white supremacist Nazi propaganda pseudo-scientific ideas, I'm glad that's the one that made it to the Far East.
 
Thanks Loon for the info, I'll tell her to tune in then.

Thanks Puppycow for the welcome. It's good to un-lurk. Randi commented on the Japan segment not in the commentary that appeared today (well maybe, I haven't read it yet), but he did comment in the last two.. Just bring up the archives and search for "Japan".
 
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Thanks! I'll try to remember to tune in!

Most of the commercial (non-NHK) TV stations here generally provide an uncritical platform for psychics and the like, and promote lots of silliness including blood-type personality theory and fortune telling based on blood type. I usually mostly watch NHK.

ketsu-eki-gata A desu!

....which means I share personality traits with Ayumi Hamasaki and Adolf Hitler....:D
 
This is (horribly) BabbelFished from the GetsuYoru web site for their next broadcast:

If "super power" is proven! Super power challenge of prize gold 1 hundred million 2000 ten thousand Yen dreams "On this earth, genuine super power how it does not exist.... " So the man whom you boast is in Florida. The leader of the magic boundary where the name widely is known the magician as "アメージング plays numerous large escaping イリュージョン in America ランディ" who, knows the trick of the magic and exhausts. And, the man whom now the psychics in the world fear... "super power bus tar" ジェームス ランディ Before itself eye, to prove super power it was possible that man, if approximately XXYEN 120, 000 and 000 (approximately $ 1, 000 and 000 (1000000 U.S. dollars) to a = Japanese Yen,: 120000000 Yen) you present. With you say! For the psychic, by proud super power, it is the story like dream of a catching lot of money, but! There was a fact of impact here! ! ! That calls secret ・ ・ ・ ランディ of super power, there is a trick "in everything of super power. " 1000000 dollar super power challenge complete document! Exhibiting spirit perspective man VS super power bus tar super power! With the man and the super power etc. which are said it does not exist! With it can unfold, the exciting battle of the man who is said.

ETA: Hazarding a guess based on my very limited knowledge of Katakana (and the slight help of Rikaichan) the untranslated bits are James and Randi, with the exception of the second untranslated word which is "illusion." My favorite is, what seems to be, Randi's new title, "Super Power Bus Tar" (buster).
 
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Attack! Super Power Bus Tar Randi!!!

If "supernatural power" is proved Supernatural power challenge of prize money the dream of 120 million yen! "... which does not exist in real supernatural power on this earth." The man who brags so is in Florida. Magician who performed many large escape illusion in the United States "Amazing Randy" He is the leader of a magic community who it carries out, and the name is known widely, and got to know all the tricks of magic. And man whom the persons with preternatural power in the world fear now ... "Supernatural power buster" James Randy The man will be $1,000,000 = (1 million U.S. dollar), if supernatural power is able to be proved in front of own Sakka. It is made the Japanese yen and \120,000,000 (abbreviation: 120 million yen) is presented about. It says! For a person with preternatural power, it is the supernatural power of boast and is a dreamlike talk of making a fortune at a stroke! Here was the fact of the shock!!! It is a secret of supernatural power... Randy says. "A trick is in all the supernatural power." 1 million-dollar supernatural power challenge perfect document! The exciting battle of the man ! which displays spirit-of-a-departed-person fluoroscopy man VS supernatural power buster supernatural power, and the man ! which does not exist [ supernatural power ] is under way.


So says @nifty. "...spirit-of-a-departed-person fluoroscopy man..."? That would be the applicant. But I like Babelfish's (Systrans) copy too, always good for a giggle.

Here was the fact of the shock!!! I got to sit in on the taping, despite my nihongo incompetance. Will be interesting to see how the thing gets cut up.
 
I hope Super Power Bus Tar Randi has the correct Yugi-Oh cards for this battle. (Or, if not, can at least transform into a Power Ranger.)
 
VCR? I don't suppose then you have the technology for converting to electrons and uploading somewhere then ? (youtube, direct email to me...)
 
Oh well... I look forward to a summary from you on the segment though :)
 
They started with a few clips of previous debunkings, captioned with a big KO every time Randi busts someone. Then, a clip of Randi breaking a spoon, with Randi's voice dubbed over into Japanese...

Then a profile of the challenger, complete with dramatic shots of tai-chi performed in a wooded setting...

I'm gonna go watch the rest now.
 

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