DocFugu’s blog. Fighting games in Japan.

  • Simple Referrer tracking

    Just for fun, I’ve added some simple referrer tracking code to this site, and will be playing around with it for a while. The code is from Justinsomnia. Thanks for the code!

  • First First Temple Visit

    Kuhombutsu Main Gate Temple Interior People lining up Kuhombutsu Temple Bell Happy New Year from Kuhombutsu! Happy New Year! This was my first ever New Year’s Eve in Japan. Last year, I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia celebrating the New Year with my friend Gyn Ian Yap, and back in the States the year before […]

  • Followup to “More Becky on Japanese TV”

    This is a follow up to a previous post of mine about a Japanese drama I’ve been watching. I finished watching “Anna-san no Omame” the other day, and in general thought it was ok. The show has a very exaggerated comedic style, and can’t really be taken very seriously, but is fun for what it […]

  • Christmas Colonel Sanders / The Japanese concept of a traditional Christmas

    In Japan for Christmas, it is “traditional” to have Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Eve. I was out in front of a store a day or two before Christmas. As I was waiting for the bus KFC started to smell better and better. I went in to see if I could get something to snack […]

  • No force on Earth can stop one hundred Santas!!

    Today, Saturday Dec. 23rd, there was a Santarchy gathering in Shibuya. Since it is close by, I decided to stop by and check it out. I’ve got plans already – I’m heading to my friend Watanabe‘s place this afternoon for a Christmas party, so I couldn’t join in on the Shibuya Santa fun, but I […]

  • More Becky on Japanese TV

    It has been a long time since I’ve posted (is anyone even watching?) because work has been just killer lately. This past month I spent a crazy amount of time working on a system to do automatic opinion analysis for the NTCIR Opinion Analysis Pilot Task. I submitted my results yesterday, and I can probably […]

  • Sightseeing in Kyoto

    Kiyomizudera at night. God of Success and Promotion. I could use some of his help. Red leaves on the way to Kinkakuji. Kinkakuji reflected in the pond. Kinkakuji with tree. I like this picture for some reason. Nijyou Castle December is a tremendously busy month for me, so I’m glad that I got to spend […]

  • Kyoto International Manga Museum Opens

    The Kyoto International Manga Museum is four floors of Manga and exhibits on Manga from around the world. I happened to be in Kyoto this November from the 27th until the 30th to attend the 2006 International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. One of the presentations was a brief introduction to the recently opened Kyoto […]

  • International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) in Kyoto day 4

    Institutional Repositories in Japan: In the Framework of Cyberscience Infrastructure Kyoto International Manga Museum Kyoto University Digital Library and Institutional Repository Journal@rchive: An Archiving Project of Japanese Academic Journals Session: Special Session 1: Culture and Academic Services “Institutional Repositories in Japan: In the Framework of Cyberscience Infrastructure”, Yuko Murakami, Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, […]

  • International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) in Kyoto day 3

    Kikori-KS: An Effective and Efficient Keyword Search System for Digital Libraries in XML Supporting Efficient Grouping and Summary Information for Semistructured Digital Libraries Functional Composition of Web Databases Integration of Wikipedia and a Geography Digital Library Impact of Document Structure to Hierarchical Summarization Indexing All the World’s Books: Future Directions and Challenges for Google Book […]

  • International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) in Kyoto day 2

    A Digital Resource Harvesting Approach for Distributed Heterogeneous Repositories Parallelising Harvesting Personlized Information Delivering Service in Blog-like Digital Libraries A Personal Ontology Model for Library Recommendation System Research and Implementation of a Personalized Recommendation System Text Image Spotting Using Local Crowdedness and Hausdorff Distance Effective Image Retrieval for the M-learning System Language Translation and Media […]

  • International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL2006) in Kyoto day 1

    Opening Keynote by Dr. Makoto Nagao Owlery: A Flexible Content Management System for ‘Growing Metadata’ of Cultural Heritage Objects and its Education Use in the CEAX Project “A Digital Video Archive System of DNAP Taiwan” Some general information. About 190 registered participants on the first day. 220+ abstract submissions, 46 full papers, 13 short papers, […]

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