I Survived a Japanese Game Show / Wipeout ABC introduced two Japanese-inspired gameshows on Tuesday, but the combined effect only highlighted the cultural rift.

An American Japanese Game Show: What Took So Long? Japanese game shows have been satirized by a variety of long-running American television shows such as "The Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live ...

I realized that these Japanese game show clips on YouTube can be the perfect thing for families to watch together. (Note: I said many of the clips, not all. Definitely not all.) They’re short ...

Game shows have been making a bit of a resurgence in the United States in recent years, but it looks like Japan may have just raised the bar. An episode of a Japanese game show dubbed Slippery ...

With ABC's "I Survived a Japanese Game Show," we get the equivalent of a 45-second YouTube video stretched to an hour, week after painful week.

This unscripted reality/game show takes an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at 10 Americans who are whisked away to Japan and compete in the ultimate Japanese game show. The results and prizing ...

Our friends to the East are masters of the out-of-control game show. Here's our guide to the ones you need to watch.

With the increasing popularity of YouTube clips from Japanese game shows such as "Endurance," "Hole in the Wall" and "Human Tetris," U.S. networks — never shy about imitation — are bringing ...

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ABC debuts I Survived a Japanese Game Showand Wipeout. To truly understand Japanese game shows, you just need to understand two words: absurdity and pain.

Shot solely in Japan, the show follows 10 unsuspecting westerners who traveled to Tokyo to compete in Japanese game shows while immersing themselves in cultural excursions and living together in a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - June 29, 2008 Is American television going crazy? No - American television is going Japanese. With the increasing popularity of YouTube clips from Japanese game shows such as ...