Category: Japan
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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 […]
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Foreign takes on Akihabara: fight!
Go and read this post over at Colony Drop by Sean, and then read the comments. I like Akihabara a lot. The first time I went there was back in the 1989 (I believe) when I came to Japan with my dad. I bought a portable CD player (a ridiculously impossible thing at the time) […]
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Home Owners Association and Fire Walking
Today was an interesting day. I started the morning off with a 6km jog by the canal, and then got back in time for toast and coffee. It was very rushed though, because from 10:00am today was our first Homeowner’s association meeting. This was the first major meeting of the elected body of representatives in […]
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A visit to the family grave
Tanaka family grave (on left) Tanaka family grave Nezumi Kouzou’s Grave Sumo power grave We are currently in a three-day off period in Japan. That means people are busy going to their ancestral homes and whatnot. R.’s family invited me along with them to go to the family grave at the Eko-in temple in Ryokoku. […]
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Mister James, McDonald’s and MOS Buger
An interesting article on the McDonald’s “Mister James” kerfuffle. Nice video with an alternative view pushing people to Mos Burger. http://thedailyyoji.blogspot.com/2009/09/mr-james-madness.html