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Maid Cafés in Japan
Pinafore Maid Cafe The witch bar unattico-sttrega January 15th 社会研究調査 As part of a societal cultural research learning field trip, Benkei and I went with a friend of his to the Pinafore Maid Cafe. We went on a Wednesday evening, in the rain. This actually turned out to be pretty important, but more on that […]
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IO Data LCD-TV241XBR LCD monitor with linux
Ever since I came to Japan a year ago, I’ve wanted to get some sort of display device that was HD-capable and larger-format than the 15″ display on my ThinkPad A31p. Generally, I only watch a little bit of TV, some NHK news in the morning and evening, but I watch a lot of TV […]
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Updated referrer tracking code
This is an update to a previous post on simple referrer tracking. The original code is from justinsomnia.org. I was playing around with the referrer tracking code I use here over the past few days, and made some minor adjustments: I use a DHTML slider to set the range of days over which to track, […]
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A somewhat embarrasing great achievement
(Japanese version is here.) For the first time in my life, I have actually read an entire Japanese novel. I personally feel that it is something that I should celebrate, but I have to say that I am a bit embarrassed to say that it has taken me about a year to actually read this […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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