| 11:59am | Yuribou-Scans up and running | | | | Hi all. There’s no way I can apologise for the absolute lack of postings on Yuribou the last few weeks. I can’t even put it down to laziness - I think I’ve just been a little uninspired for the past couple of months. I’m just making this a mini-news update type post First of... |
| 10:35pm | On aesthetic differences - An ugly nation cursed with a love of beauty | | | | Sorry all, it’s been a while - as always apologies for non-posting I wanted to elaborate today on one of the things that struck me first as a disappointment about Japan and now, having digested and understood it, becomes merely just another quirk in a country that defines itself by its enormous... |
| 9:14pm | ~Memories~ Days - Love Hotels and pretty red lights… | | | | Since I spend most of my time harping on about various kinds of Japanese animated pornography, it may not surprise you to learn that Japan’s cities have a burgeoning real life sex industry as well as its more virtual one Those of you who have read my Hentai Dictionary will be aware of some of... |
| 3:48pm | Not dead, just back in Blighty | | | | Hi all Sorry about the lack of updates - love and I have been singly unable to find a place or a time to use the internets for long enough to write a post. There’s no lack of things to write about though (least of not why I keep typing & instead of apostrophes). Arrived back on Saturday,... |
| 11:48pm | Love’s March watching habits | | | | So while Mr Yuribou has been off gallivanting I’ve been stuck at home, working, in Coventry. Hmm. This does mean however that I’ve been keeping up with all the things we’ve been watching this season and here I’ll give a quick sum up of my choice of what is now last season’s... | | |
| 6:42am | Day 26 - Useful Japanese Slang | | | | I thought I would share with you faithful readers the fruits of trying to decipher the ultra-fast talking of (mainly cardiology) residents, with a helpful bilingual translator. Soon it becomes clear that a lot of words used in everyday speech are not to be found in many textbooks of the language. Therefore... |
| 11:08am | Day 25 - Miscellany - because some things don’t have topics. | | | | Yeah, it’s a miscellaneous day today. Sorry about that. I think the first thing I noticed that was different about Japan when I arrived this time (as opposed to last time when I came in the height of summer) is the huge number of people wearing facemasks in the street. You can buy these in the... |
| 8:58am | Day 19 - The Legend of Japanese TV (日本テレビの伝説) | | | | Sorry, I didn’t fulfil my promise - Have been randomly busy with cardiac arrests and such - so been an interesting but fairly depressing week. For most Westerners such as myself, it is very difficult to get a mental hold on what Japanese actually watch on TV - most people would think it is something... | | |
| 12:01pm | Day 16 - Short Nikko post | | | | Went to Nikko over the weekend, so short post today because had a long day and am knackered:Nikko is a tourist townNikko has more buildings rusted to hell than most of the small towns I’ve been toNikko is a very sleepy place - everything shuts at half 5 except the restaurants which shut at 8.... |
| 8:54am | Day 11 - Food glorious food. Hot…erm. coffee and ochitsuke | | | | I thought I would take a break from talking about serious stuff and really get into what probably a lot of you are passionate about - Japanese food. I’m going to skip over all the boring stuff that gets gone over a million times in eating guides and such, though. Here’s a list of all the... |
| 3:13am | Day 7 - Addresses and Communication failures. | | | | So I went to Tokyo this weekend. Stayed in a capsule hotel in Asakusa (North central Tokyo, by the Sumidagawa) and somehow managed to get up in time to see the end fo the tuna auctions in Tsukiji. But that’s material for another post Firstly and most importantly, I have to admit that I was wrong... |
| 11:28am | Day 2 - Start of work proper and more on Akiba… | | | | So, Here I am in the Kameda medical centre computer room, attempting to type fast on this stupid Japanese keyboard (the spacebar is so short I keep hitting the keys either sideand I don’t know what they do. And apostrophe is SHIFT-7. WTF.) Today has been not a particularly fruitful day on the... | | |
| 1:39pm | Day 1 - Free day. Topic: General Japan ramblings and Akiba madness… | | | | So, I’m in Japan. You probably knew that by now. I’m writing this from a rather nice PC in the hotel lobby (the hotel isn’t in such good shape, but I’m not complaining) after a rather satisfying (if not fruitful) day out in Akihabara. As soon as I arrived here in Japan, a few... |
| 7:50am | Change of blog! Controversial! | | | | Hey all, First of all, please let me apologise for the state of my blog over the past few weeks, I’ve been letting my work get on top of me and that’s annoying. Secondly, I will be flying off to Tokyo today noon. I’ll be in the Kameda Medical Centre in Kamogawa (go on, google map it,... |
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