Japan a la carte
Taka Yamada's Brovision.com features a huge collection of photo galleries and streaming videos which serve as an introduction of the details of Japanese culture. One of the few Flash based streaming video sites that actually manages to smoothly play video.
Also, Video-link Japan, same concept but slightly more loose in tone and design.
· Brovision
· Video Link Japan - Video Blog From Tokyo
Both sites from this Metafilter thread