Category: Japan
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You know it is bad when you are eating Nude Crunky Balls
Crunky Nude Balls Crunky Nude Balls With a city of over 15 million people, food can run out fast. I just wen to the local supermarket and they still don’t have any staple foods (but they have had deliveries of other non-staple foods.) It could be that there was just a buying run, but since […]
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I hope you like broccoli, because that is what is for dinner
A run at the supermarket A run at the supermarket A run at the supermarket So this evening my wife and I stopped by the local (very large) supermarket to pick up some toilet paper and something for dinner tomorrow night. Turns out, we could get neither because almost everything was sold out. We did […]
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The Great Miyagi Earthquake of 2011
Outside Cross Tower Modeling Amazon.co.jp hard hats On Friday, as usual, a group of us from work went out to Beacon, a favorite lunch place. Lunch was great, a nice filling burger, as usual. Then back to work for the afternoon. At about three o’clock sometime (amazingly, I feel like I should know exactly when […]
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Monjya-yaki and the Lion King’s Simba
Getting monjya-yaki with some friends Monjya-yaki Simba! Last night my wife and I went to the house warming party of some friends of ours. They had just moved back from New York, where the husband was studying law at Columbia University. They rented out the lounge on the 37th floor of their building near Tsukishima. […]
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Fukuroda Falls
Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls shrine Tokyo Night Driving All picture in the set. Last weekend R. and I took a day trip out to see Fukuroda Falls. It is about three hours by car to the North of Tokyo. We took the car out (for the first time in months) and […]
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Summer Comic Market 78 in Tokyo
Comic Market Catalog Waiting in the parking lot for the Comic Market to open A crowded Tokyo Big Site Comic Cure Sports Drink Captain Jack Sparrow Saint Oniisan: Jesus and Buddha Some Giant Robot Ginrei from Giant Robo Usavitch Rabbits Xbox Man On Saturday, I decided to take a trip out to Tokyo Big Sight […]
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A small bar in Ikebukuro
Last Friday, R. and I went to a small bar in Ikebukuro. Our aim was to find the small bar Afiya, run by a friend of a friend. It is a really small wine bar that has a focus on food from Senegal. The place has maybe room for 8, so a very cozy atmosphere. […]
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Tokyo Anime Fair and Hanami
Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010 Tokyo International Anime Fair 2010 Sakura in Ueno Park Sakura at Ueno Park Last weeked, R. and I had tickets to go to the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Why did we have tickets to go? That’s a good question. It turns out that the President of Mushi Productions is a […]
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Japanese that Japanese people don’t know
The other day I bought the book 日本人の知らない日本語, “Japanese that Japanese people don’t know”. It is a cute little book with comics, lots and lots and lots of ruby (furigana readings over the Kanji) written by a Japanese language teacher who primarily teaches foreign students. The idea is that foreigners have lots of crazy questions […]
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Adventures with Flat Everett
Flat Everett Goes to Shinjuku Station Flat Everett catches a train Flat Everett catches a train Flat Everett rides in style Flat Everett makes some Santa-style friends Flat Everett meets a sushi Chef Flatt Everett meets my niece Flat Everett is a new friend of ours that arrived in the mail the other day. My […]