Trump style

Applicants came out in droves: 215,000 people in 13 cities auditioned for 16 slots.

That’s for a new show coming soon. How long before we see something like that in Japan? What are the reality shows here?

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Posted on Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 at 11:04 am and filed under America, media. Subscribe to RSS 2.0. Skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging disabled.

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  1. aragoto
    October 22nd, 2003 at 12:16 pm

    I think Japan has had a few reality shows. Denpa Shonen is the first that springs to mind, in particular a section where they shut a group of people in a room for several months and made them come up with ideas for TV programmes; a winning idea would enable you to “graduate” into the heady world of programme planning (whoopee). Very similar pattern to “The Apprentice,” in fact. The other one that springs to mind is Ainori, where a group of people tours the globe on a bus, hopefully finding love with one of their co-passengers, at which point the two go home together and new members are picked up. (I hear the course that things take is in fact fairly heavily influenced by the TV station, though.)

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