| 4:46am | Tokyo Rock Trooper | | | | Well its been nearly four months since we filmed this video ^^; The main reason that it took so long was because every time I sat down to edit it, it was taking ages to get the hand movements in sync with the music - maybe my iPod version was out of sync or something.Higher resolution (and worth it)... |
| 4:45am | Japanese Culture | | | | One thing that I found interesting when I started to indulge in Japanese culture is the way Japanese folks pay for a meal. Rather than somebody getting the whole bill, Japanese people tend to pay for what they had. This is known as Warikan [割り勘]. If you are in Japan with friends at a restaurant,... |
| 5:25am | Tokyo 2001 - 2004 | | | | Following on from Tokyo 1999 - 2001. 2001 August was when I joined Amazon but will leave the nitty gritty details for the "Working in a Corporate IT company: Amazon and Microsoft" article. This is was the view from my office at Amazon on a warm autumn evening. image ID#22421dannychoo.com back at the... | | |
| 5:25am | Japan Weather | | | | Born and lived in rainy London for 27 years but never saw anything like this until I started to live in Japan. And just why does everybody have an umbrella? The weather reporting over here is usually pretty good. When you leave for work on a sunny morning without an umbrella - and notice that everybody... |
| 12:10pm | A Week in Tokyo 26 | | | | Starting this weeks in installment of A Week in Tokyo with a blurry pic of one of my comrade bloggers Yumiking who I caught up with at the Japanese Bloggers Dinner in Gotanda yesterday night. The chap on the right is another popular blogger Modern Syntax.image ID#22376One for Nogizaka Haruka fans -... |
| 12:09pm | Bukkake | | | | The otaku business mind has come up with the worlds first (probably) "liquid" proof manga The "liquid" in this case is specifically "your soldiers." The term Bukkake (ぶっかけ) originally means to dash or splash water/liquid onto something. Its still used for the naming of some Japanese dishes... |
| 8:01am | Nendoroid | | | | Today we are going to have a look at just some of my unboxed Nendoroids ^^;image ID#22331For those who dont know, Nendoroid is a series of figures from Good Smile Company where the characteristic is a huge head on a weeny body.image ID#22332There are different types of Nendoroids - the standard ones... | | |
| 4:02am | Queens Gate Alice | | | | Started to panic after seeing reviews of this Queens Gate Alice figure over at FooBarBaz and Happy Soda. I didnt pre-order and by the time I started to look for her, she had sold out on all online Japanese storesimage ID#22277Luckily comrades at Benippon had one left in stock. When there is a will,... |
| 4:01am | Japanese Manuals | | | | I've always felt the same about Japanese manuals that come with products over here. Theres just too much info in them - I only end up reading the quick start manuals and the rest just sits there until I find time to look for the PDF version online so that I can throw the paper version away. In case... |
| 4:01am | Japanese Emoticons | | | | Disclaimer: I know these are used heavily in Korea and China too but I need to choose good keywords for this post so "Japanese Emoticons" it will be. I think pretty much all of us use emoticons. I started off with ":-)" back in the UK and gradually picked up the Japanese equivalents "^^" upon moving... |
| 5:01am | Nogizaka Haruka | | | | The latest edition of Dengeki G's Anime came out yesterday and had a load of goodies including my first oppai mouse pad - today we will proactively use the word "oppai" instead of "eyes" to avoid confusion ^^; Could not find a copy to pre-order anywhere online and started to panic ^^; Managed to reserve... |
| 5:00am | Japanese Economy | | | | Not sure what its like in other countries but in Japan, the norm is that the man of the house (usually a salaryman) goes out to earn the money while the woman of the house (usually a house wife) manages the money. Okozukai (お小遣い(おこづかい) ) is the word for "pocket money". Thought it... |
| 5:00am | Japanese Law Enforcement | | | | Following up from yesterday, a boy attempted to axe his dad to death by chopping at his head But despite the axe incidents of late, the crime rate in Japan is still relatively low - so low in fact that police stations like this one (called "Koban") don't have any human police stationed - just a unit... |
| 1:06pm | Tokyo 1999 - 2001 | | | | Been sorting through many years of photos recently and have been having nostalgic trips down memory lane which I thought I'd share with you. This photo of our first apartment was taken in the Summer of 1999 - the year when we finally purchased a one way ticket to Japan. The top left corner was our... |
| 1:05pm | Japanese Ghosts | | | | Shinrei Shashin [心霊写真] is a phrase used to describe photos where ghosts or spirits decide to show all or part of themselves when a photo is taken. Ghosts/spirits show up for many reasons including hate for the person having their photo taken, expressions of distress, hate, jealousy etc etc.... |
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