The man of the hour (or 15 minutes) in Japan right now is Yoshi Kojima.  He’s a Japanese comedian and all the kids (big and little) love him.  The kids are always imitating him and they try to get me to do it too.  I don’t trust them one bit.

As far as I can tell from what I’ve seen on TV, he only does one thing.  He comes in on the camera sorta making low squeals.  Sorta like an old lechy grandpa.  Then he pretends to hump something.  Then gets up and chants something and does a downward punching motion with his hand while kicking back with his foot.

I have no idea what he says.  All I know is that it is rude.  It ends with “Hey, opapi!”

He just does that one thing.   And everyone goes wild.  People are going to get tired of it eventually.  They have to.  But what can I say?  It is pretty ridiculous and charming in a Japan sort of way.  That or I just think he’s really hot.

Even he seems to realize how repetitive he’s getting.  He has a slightly bored look on his face when he does it recently.  It’s like he’s rolling his eyes inside.

But in an effort to get the junior high kids to pay attention to my lesson on  prepositions, I made this diagram.  For you English teachers out there, feel free to use it.

Hey Opapi!