April, 2009
Last weekend I was having ramen with my friend Antonio and we found Son Goku! It is pretty normal to find people with kame (亀) t-shirts but this Son Goku was orange until his shoes Related entries: Dragon Ball and Lawson Dragon Ball Kai Dragon Ball Kai Episodes Akira Toriyama interview
Where can I draw? There are not many graffitis in Japanese cities, this is the only sign prohibiting it I’ve seen until now and curiously it was at the entrance of a US military base in Okinawa. Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan and Asia (Subscribe) dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe) Japan Probe [...]
I loved this! It is a Biccamera (Electronics shop) with a phone facade where each button indicates what the clients can find in each floor. For example in the button(floor) number seven we can find “Windows, computers” and in the button(floor) number six we can find “Macintosh, computers”.
A while ago Japan was known as the country where 3G smartphones cost 1 yen. The terrible competition in the mobile phone market made telephone prices drop until the limit of 1 yen. Not only the most basic phones cost 1 yen, even the advanced and pretty good phones cost also 1 yen. Those were [...]
I’ve been trying the new Nikon D5000. A camera that I would classify in the middle of the Nikon D60 and the Nikon D90 but with a little bit of “new style” because of the vari-angle color LCD monitor. It is awesome to be able to freely move the LCD monitor in a D-SLR camera! [...]
The Japanese popstar Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, one of the most charismatic members of the SMAP pop group has been arrested for alleged public indecency after he was reportedly found nude at a park and drunk. I can’t believe it! I don’t really like SMAP or any of its members but I thought Tsuyoshi Kusanagi was the [...]
My friend AlePepino who we already know from his Kojima Yoshio video (A video that became so famous that was featured on Japanese TV) is participating in a viral video challenge to promote a new brand of gum called Fit’s. Lotte has launched a new chewing gum called Fit’s and is organizing a contest to [...]
I was watching TV this weekend and I found it amazing to see this VISA commercial featuring Matt Harding together with some historical Japanese whose faces are in the Japanese yen bills: If you don’t know Matt Harding yet, you must! He became famous after he left his daily job as a developer, traveled all [...]
