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  • Yo La Tengo

    Yo La Tengo came to Tokyo, and I wasn’t going to miss that for anything. They’re touring in support of their new album, I m not afraid of you and I will beat your ass. I really like this album, and encourage you to pick it up. They played at Shibuya’s O-East, a fairly large […]

  • Nationalism / Isolationalism in Japan and perception of foreign crime

    I read a few blogs, and an interesting post over on What Japan Thinks about a survey on crime in Japan (and how foreigners are a large contributing factor) pointed me to another very interesting post over on Debito.org on a Japanese magazine about foreigner crime. It is definitely worth taking a look at both […]

  • Happy Cheap Chocolate Day!!

    Today is one of my favorite days of the year. The day after Valentine’s Day. Cheap Chocolate Day. When I stopped into 7-eleven this morning for my morning yogurt and bottle of lemon water, they were running 50% off of their Valentine’s Day Chocolate. Valentine’s Day is pretty big here in Japan, even more so […]

  • Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles

    I’ve been quite busy lately, but yesterday I threw on “Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles” while I did some work at home. I was a big fan of Robotech as a kid, I watched all three series, and of course didn’t realize that it was a mish-mash of three different anime brought over from Japan. I […]

  • Best little bar in Jiyugaoka

    I just wanted to drop a link to my friend Ahmadu’s (spelling is almost positively incorrect) bar, Saraba. It is a bar and art gallery in between Jiyugaoka and Kuhombutsu, so it is right on the way home for me. I’ve been stopping in there lately for a nightly glass of wine. The bar is […]

  • Interesting post on Japanese marriage statistics

    I read a few Japan-oriented blogs every once a while, things like what japan thinks, and they came across an interesting post over on mutant frog about Japanese marriage statistics. I’m surprised that more Japanese men marry foreigners than Japanese women, that was exactly the opposite of what I had always assumed to be the […]

  • Getting Japanese input in UTF8 to work in LaTeX on OSX

    I have installed LaTeX via fink, and when writing a paper, came across the problem that Japanese just does not work in my environment. This is a bit of a problem as I’m writing about some analysis of English, Japanese, and Chinese data. So I’m going to try to get Japanese input working in my […]

  • Let’s pound rice together (not a euphemism)

    Rice pounding set. Rice Pounding Festival Free Sake! Kids enjoy pounding rice! Last weekend, on Sunday I left my apartment to get something for lunch and ran into the local rice pounding festival. I guess these festivals are common during the New Year, since they are basically about making that delicious Japanese pounded rice treat […]

  • Chasen on OSX 10.4

    I found myself needing to do some Japanese morphological analysis today, which usually means either Chasen or Kabocha. Kabocha is supposed to be the new hottness, running fast, but a quick search didn’t turn up any precompiled packages for it on OSX. ChaSen, on the other hand, is available in DarwinPorts, but since I went […]

  • First drive in Japan

    (日本語版はこちら) Yesterday I went on my first drive in Japan with a friend. We weren’t too sure where to go at first, but in the end decided on Chiba. One of the really cool things about cars here in Japan is that many of them have these in-car navigation systems that can plot out a […]

  • Building libbow and rainbow on Mac OSX

    For some research work I’m doing, I would like to do some Bayesian modeling for text categorization. Since I’m not interested in re-inventing wheels when there are plenty of very well constructed wheels available for the taking, I thought I would install Andrew McCallum’s libbow and rainbow packages on my Mac. Of course, I had […]

  • Eating too much in Korea: a wedding tradition?

    My pictures of Dave Han’s wedding in Korea. Han family at Han Park wedding. Jiseon Park and David Han Drying Fish Table full of plates On Friday January 5th I got on a plane and went to Korea for Dave Han’s wedding. He married Jiseon Park, and the ceremony took place in Gangneung Korea, on […]

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