On this occasion, instead of Sailor Moon make-up, I came across this cool video showing the whole process that a Geisha goes through when putting on make-up. Geishas and maikos have been putting on make-up the same way for over four hundred years. However not only geishas take make-up so seriously; the make-up culture is [...]

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One of my favorite ramen restaurant in Shijuku is Kamukura (exact location in Google Maps). The other day, at the entrance of the restaurant, I bumped into this photo of Wentworth Miller, the actor that plays Michael Scofield in Prison Break. I asked one of the cooks about it and he told me that Wentworth [...]

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