Life is full of contradictions, some Japanese shops also are.

I’ve seen this kind of mixture many times in shops around Harajuku & Shimokitazawa in Tokyo and around America Mura in Osaka.

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Fortune Global 500 is a ranking with the top 500 worldwide corporations based on their revenue. Here there is the ranking, but what I find more interesting is the breakdown by city.

Position- City - Country - Number of companies listed on Fortune 500
1 .- Tokyo - Japan - (50)
2 .- Paris - France - (26)
3 .- New [...]

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It’s been a long time without any new video. But last week, after Youtube Mix I went to Shibuya with DannyChoo and this is the result:

More info about the video

Stormtrooper/Dannychoo related posts:

Stormtrooper in Tokyo
Darth Vader costume
Darth Vader Behind the scenes
Tokyo Dance Trooper

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The party where we met a Steve Chen is calles Youtube Mix. I was expecting something similar to the Eyevio event but it was much more glamorous; champagne everywhere, nice Youtube girls, and there were even university models!
Here are some of the pictures I took. More pics and info at Dannychoo’s post.

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Today, Dannychoo and me were invited to a private party where we had the opportunity to talk with Steve Chen. He is a really cool guy, and he seems really happy, always smiling and laughing

From left to right: Danny Choo, Steve Chen and me.

More stuff about this event tomorrow.

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Krispy Kreme is a donuts shop chain very well know in the United States. They opened one shop here in Japan last December and it became the most popular donuts shop in Tokyo. There is always a really long line, and I mean always! After some months since the opening even during weekdays there is [...]

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I found this TV show so hilarious that I took a video with my digital camera so you can watch it. They put eight people in a room, and everyone has to fart if they want to go home.

More about Japanese farting at Dannychoo’s site

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I liked this pictures from Mainichi.jp

Is a system developed by NTT Docomo. Using special glasses you can see computer generated graphics “mixed/integrated” with reality. Right now, they managed to make a simulation where you see a girl but it’s just a green dummy. Look at this second picture, in the screen you can see what [...]

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Japan is possibly one of the safest developed countries in the world, criminality is very low (even though we have the Yakuza). In this post I show some pictures of “expensive” bikes without any padlock or security system; these bicycles could be stolen so easily! And I say “expensive” bicycles, because “normal” bicycles without protection [...]

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Rampo Edogawa was a Japanese writer who liked to write mystery novels. He admired Edgar Allan Poe so much that he changed his real name “Hirai Taro” for “Rampo Edogawa”. “Rampo Edogawa” is the Japanese pronunciation for “Edgar Allan Poe”. If you have never read any of his books I recommend you this book [...]

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