Living in Japan
Solar Eclipse
The Solar Eclipse that occurred today was hard to see for most due to the bad weather at the time. A number of keen photographers from Japan did manage to…
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Shibuya
Shibuya Station Live
Around the railway stations at night in Japan, you often see the live street performers take up a position and play for the crowd. Some of these…
Marketing
Tokyo Disneyland Bloggers
Tokyo Disneyland located in Urayasu, Chiba-ken, is extremely popular with Japanese as a tourist attraction. It also has the highest repeat visitor rate of…
Conbini Monday
Conbini Monday Wk13
Banana Diet was big with the ladies last year and ever since banana flavored products have been coming on to the market in an attempt to ride the trend…
Culture
Gundam 00 Complete Best
The Gundam 00 Complete Best limited edition DVD went on sale on July 8th, 2009. I spotted this truck driving through Shibuya advertising ガンダム00. The…
Photos
Gundam, Odaiba
The 1/1 scale model of the RX78 Gundam robot at Odaiba (お台場) has created a large amount of attention. Japanese and international travelers in their thousands have found their way to Shiokaze Park in Odaiba to view the Gundam which lights up and gives off steam at night.
Buildings
Mansion Renovations
Condominium buildings in Japan are called Mansions. In some countries you might think a mansion would be set in a beautiful countryside estate with a huge…
Shibuya
Shibuya Streets Vol. 2
It's been a while since we have had a Shibuya Streets series. The weekends are always busy with foot traffic and with a spare hour, I took a walk out to…
Shibuya
Old Shibuya Photos
The area around Shibuya station is well known to the millions of people who flow through the train station. What is not so well known by all those people…
Shibuya
Railway Construction
There has been a lot of railway construction going on recently around Shibuya station. The Fukutoshin （副都心線） line construction was completed between Wako…
Conbini Monday
Post Office Conbini
A few years ago, with the postal service in Japan being scrutinized by politicians for privatization and everyone looking for ways to restructure the…
Outdoors & Sport
J-League Soccer
Soccer became popular in Japan following the creation of the professional J-League and then the hosting of the Soccer World Cup in 2002. I was invited to…
Outdoors & Sport
Tiger v. Ishikawa, British Open
Ryo Ishikawa is considered by many in Japan to be the Japanese version of Tiger Woods. He hasn't won that many tournaments yet, but he has certainly…
Conbini Monday
Conbini Monday Wk12
This weeks Conbini Monday is presented by Rilakkuma , Mameshiba and Jiji, the cat from Majo no Takkyubin (魔女の宅急便). Morinaga have two cornflake based…
Characters
Cheeba kun, Chiba
I was invited to a party given by a friend who is a Council Member of the Ichikawa City Council in Chiba. Maki Namiki's blog can be found here detailing…
Photos
Tokyo Soccer
Tokyo Verdy played Tokushima Vortis in the J2 League Match on 11 July 2009 at Yoyogi National Stadium. I covered the match for the Tokyo2016Today site. Tokyo Verdy finished out the match winning 4-0.
Tech
Google Android in Japan
The ads are starting to come out at the train stations for the new NTT docomo Google Android phone. This ad at Shibuya station says "ケータイするGoogle", A hand…