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Japan pop culture author / blogger La Carmina (http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/) is interviewed about theme cafes in Japan, for ABC Nightline TV show! She talks about maid cafes, bizarre Jpop culture, fantasy cafes, and the crazy robot restaurant in Shinjuku, Tokyo. La Carmina and Cecilia Vega of ABC News play with cats at Cat Town cafe in Oakland, CA, and speak about the spread of Japanese strange trends to America. La Carmina (http://www.lacarmina.com) is a travel TV host, pop culture journalist, style / culture blogger and author – specializing in stories about Japan and Asia fashion, food and lifestyle. She has a passionate online following (hundreds of thousands of followers on social networks), and her popular LaCarmina blog - http://www.lacarmina.com/blog - is featured in major media (The New Yorker, Washington Post, The Guardian, Vogue). In addition, La Carmina is a travel / culture journalist (Sunday Times, Hong Kong Express, CNN Travel, Huffington Post), and author of 3 books about J-pop culture (published by Penguin and Random House = see http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/books). She hosts TV shows for Discovery (Oddities), Food Network, Travel Channel (Bizarre Foods) and more - as well as own video series on Business Insider, which gets 500,000 views per episode. She also runs a TV coordination and consulting business that recently got attention for their bagelheads forehead inflation segment on National Geographic Taboo. More of her resume at http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/bio Speeches and appearances include Pecha Kucha Tokyo, IFB conference at NY Fashion Week, PRSA Travel and Tourism Conference, Hong Kong Social Media Week, Mediabistro's Social Curation summit. La Carmina's TV hosting clips, including episodes from Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, CNN, Discovery and more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66w1YOg9HK0 Summary of her travel work: http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/travel La Carmina's blog http://www.lacarmina.com/blog Facebook http://facebook.com/lacarminaofficial Instagram http://instagram.com/lacarmina Twitter http://twitter.com/lacarmina YouTube http://youtube.com/lacarmina Pinterest http://pinterest.com/lacarmina