I spent a week in Tokyo last October, and watching TV there is a blast. The commercials are crazy as hell, and there seems to be absolutely NO transition between them. Here in the US, there's like a half second pause between commercials but there it's like everything bleeds into everything else. Makes it even more insane. I'll have no idea what they're saying, but their commercials are 100x more entertaining than the mundane stuff we have here.