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JT or Japan Tobacco has been trying to win over the community by promoting a message of “Smoking Manners”. You can see the posters on the train, at the station and in these ashtray info-ads. Some of the stuff they think up [...]
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Ikemen are making their debut on the Japanese subway’s Oedo Line. A number of major stations are getting their own characters such as Roppongi’s Fumi-kun, Tocho-mae’s Saki-kun and Tsukishima’s Izayoi-kun. The [...]
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The 23rd annual Giant Pumpkin Contest was held on the weekend in Kagawa-ken. This years winner is shown in the video. the pumpkin weighed 508.4 kilograms. That’s a lot of pumpkin. I wonder what they were feeding the soil to make [...]
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Have started taking the ConbiniMonday pictures from my iPhone to add a bit more real life to them. Hope they are coming out clear enough. It is hard to rival the Canon PowerShot G10 images with a mobile phone camera. There are quite a [...]
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I took a walk up to Meiji Jingu on the weekend. As always, there were lots of other people around and cameras snapping everywhere, but the walk through the grounds is so quiet and peaceful you hardly notice. I didn’t take many [...]
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Docomo has released a wooden case mobile phone made from trees that are part of the more trees project that musician Sakamoto Ruyichi helped to form. The two mobile phone brands shown here are Olympus and Sharp. It sounds a bit like a [...]
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This time in Shibuya Streets I wanted to change the camera viewpoint and give you something fresh to look at. To do this I took some shots in black and white. There are some nice shots showing the fashion and relaxed atmosphere of [...]
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A little late with the review for August. Took a while to recover after the sudden increase in traffic from the Gundam Wedding photos at Odaiba. New Server Ended up having to move the site to a new dedicated server to handle the [...]
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Can you put together a plastic model Gundam and paint it perfectly within a 3 hour time frame? If you can then you might be ready for a job at the dental implant maker, Bitec Global. From October Bitec Global are asking new recruits to [...]
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Rilakkuma made an appearance at Kiddyland in Harajuku yesterday when I was out watching the Tokyo 2016 Olympic Parade. I was lucky to be able to catch some shots and also have a sneaky peak to see what was inside the tagged suit. Do [...]
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Tokyo is bidding for the 2016 Olympics. With 9 days to go before the decision in Copenhagen, a parade was held in central Tokyo between Harajuku and Omotesando to mark the occasion. The last time Tokyo held the Olympics was in 1964.
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Snapped some cute moe fashion when out in Harajuku. This girl was posing for some scouts on the street with her stuffed rabbit.
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Many of you probably already know the DannyChoo.com brand and have enjoyed reading about Japan life along with Figure reviews and dancing Stormtrooper video action. Recently, Shibuya246 has joined in a Tokyo Live Blogging project that [...]
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We are taking a look at Family Mart’s goodies this week for Conbini Monday. Each of the different convenience stores is tying hard to form its own brand image in customers minds, while at the same time they are all offering the [...]
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Another day, another matsuri (festival), this time in Sakuragaoka-cho (桜丘町), Shibuya. This was just a local matsuri involving the kids carrying the omikoshi through the streets. Looks like they had a good time.
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Tonight was the Shibuya Nebuta Matsuri (festival) in Center-gai. The float procession was very small but the energy of the participants was high. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, but it did not seem quite a big event to call it a [...]
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Hello Kitty is in Shibuya this week (from 16th to 27th Sep, 2009). The passageway between the Tokyu stores has been taken over by the Hello Kitty Selection, Celebrity Party. What Hello Kitty products have you bought recently?
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Yes, its Friday and for some there is excitement for the weekend coming up. For others, like this guy, the week was just too much and a quick power nap before Friday’s work begins is essential. Have you ever been caught having a [...]
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Saw this wonderful scene at a station in Chiba. Looks like the 2 drivers are enjoying a game of Shogi (sort of Japanese Chess) whilst waiting for customers. The guy in the cab chooses to read a paper and keep cool. Not sure what the [...]
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The new Narita Express train, NEX E259, is due to start service on Oct 1, 2009. When I got off the Yamanote train at Shinagawa station yesterday, I saw them practising the coupling of the train. When the train is in operation the two [...]
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I met up with the guys from Tenso.com at the end of last week to discuss some online shopping / shipping ideas. For those regular readers you will have seen a few Rilakkuma articles, but probably noticed over at Amazon there is not [...]
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Some sweet treats and a magazine to read from this monday’s edition. Looks like a gift has been scored from LOTTE Toppo as well. The LED light emits a secret message. Can you guess what it is? You can see the message on the Tokyo [...]
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I went to the Tokyo Gift Show on Friday and took a look at a few exhibits. It seemed like a lot of companies were licensing characters such as Rilakkuma, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Pokemon and then producing unique gift products to put in [...]
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After a lot of construction to complete the building, H&M are ready to open in Shibuya. The location is near Yamada Denki, LABI and just opposite Tokyu Honten Bunkamura. Up until now, Shibuya hasn’t really had a lot of big [...]
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I met up with Rilakkuma today when visiting the Tokyo Gift Show. I will post more about the Gift Show later, but first here is Rilakkuma. sorry, this is kamonohashikamo not kiiroitori.
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Promotion at the bottom of Mark City in Shibuya this afternoon for the movie, Killer Virgin Road. Anyone thinking of going to see this movie? I haven’t heard much about it. Not sure it looks like a romantic comedy! More [...]
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