September, 2008
I watched Gake no use no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea), the new Ghilbi (Hayao Miyazaki) movie a while a go and I loved it. Yesterday I spent some time going through Ghibliworld, Ghibli and listening some podcasts. Here there are some extracts from interviews to Hayao Miyazaki (Director) and Toshio Suzuki [...]
Many Japanese famous male actors-models-singers who are considered very handsome are very effeminate. Sometimes I find it too much, look for example at the first picture I took from some books with Japanese male idols pictures:
Interesting mix of Japanese and USA superheroes.
Big size. Seen at Laforet Harajuku.
Two weeks ago I joined some friends and we went together to the “Asakusa Samba” festival. It is celebrated every year the last Saturday of August. It was interesting to see how Japanese people have adapted a Brazilian tradition. I’m always interested in how Japanese take foreign food, traditions, technology and adapt them to fit [...]
Meiji Jingu is one of the most touristic spots in Tokyo. It is also a pretty important shinto shrine and therefore zillions of weddings are celebrated there. I find funny that most first visitors to Meiji Jingu think they had luck because they could see a traditional wedding celebration going on there, they think it [...]
The Hamarikyu Gardens is one of my favorite places in Tokyo. It us located next to the Tsukiji fish market on Tokyo Bay’s shoreline. In the old times there was a villa used by the Tokugawa family in summer, after the shogunate was abolished Hamarikyu became a recreation area for the Meiji Emperor and his [...]
I was in Kinokuniya the other day and I was surprised to see Randy Pausch’s book in Japanese: The book is based in Randy Paush’s last lecture that became a huge internet phenomenon thanks to Youtube-GoogleVideo. Randy Pausch was a charismatic and well known computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. But two years ago he [...]
