Category: Japan
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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
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Naoko Ogigami’s “Glasses”
Or, an English review And the Japanese wikipedia entry So, R. and I watched two movies (three, but I am not counting “A Nightmare Before Christmas”, which we watched while I was working yesterday) this weekend. The first was Kamome Shokudo, directed and written by Naoko Ogigami. I enjoyed it. The second was “Glasses”, also […]
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梅はその日の何を逃す
Remember that. Similar to “An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away”, a Plum a Day wards you from the dangers of the day.
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Tokyo Giants vs Yakult Swallows and Cosplayers
Tokyo Dome City Cosplayers Tokyo Dome City Cosplayers Tokyo Dome! At the park Risa and Dave On Sunday, Risa and I met with my friends T. and M. for a Tokyo Giants vs. Yakult Swallows baseball game. T. is a huge Giant’s fan, and I’ve gone with him once a year to see a game. […]