October, 2008
I friend send me a report made by the Tokyo Government that analyzes potential earthquake risk in Tokyo. At the end of the report the conclusion is this map where the orange-red areas are the riskiest ones and the green-blue ones the safest. I live in a blue zone It looks like Tokyo east area [...]
Since two weeks ago I’ve seen this ads in different places in Tokyo. They are cool, but I had no idea what was it all about: It is a new Nikon gadget that was totally unexpected by the industry. The UP300 is a devices with headphones, an MP3 player with 8Gb, Windows Mobile 5.0 and [...]
The most interesting part is from 1:40 until 2:20.
Two weeks ago I visited a place underground where they raise plants with artificial light. It is in the Marunouchi area next to Tokyo station, I was very surprised to see what they are doing below all those skyscrapers in Maronouchi. These are some of the pictures I took. In some of the rooms the [...]
Yesterday, talking with Ale, he said to me: “Have you realized that DVD is a synonym for porn in Japan?”. And yes, it is a synonym, at list in a “street” context. If you walking around in any Japan city streets and you see a sign that says only “DVD”, then it is for sure [...]
One of the first things that shocked me when I arrived to Japan was finding tons of posters in my dormitory dinning room with bikini girls holding a big beer mug. After the first shock I learned that it was not a weird thing of my dormitory, it is a pretty normal thing, it is [...]
There is a train station in Japan called Obama (小浜: little beach). The station is located in a city called Obama and there is a train line called Obama that arrives to the Obama station. When the people from Obama learned about Barack Obama they started to support him and also find different ways to [...]
The word crisis in Japanese (危機=kiki) has the kanjis 危=”danger” and 機=”opportunity” (This kanji has also other meanings). The Japanese are pretty good finding ways to find opportunities when things turn bad, the best example is how they resurrected after the war. A more recent example has been Nomura that just bought the Lehman Brothers [...]
More about Japanese sex clubs...
