December, 2009
Stopping by at the Sony building is something usual if you visit Ginza. Some years ago it was more fun because you could play with some Aibos that were on display. Anyway the visit is still interesting, the coolest thing you can find now are XEL-1 screens. In the first floor you can usually find [...]
In the high resolution version you can appreciate the little details. Seen at the entrance of a Starbucks in Shinjuku.
Giant jellyfish are becoming one of the worst nightmares of the Japanese fishing industry. In this video they talk about the possibility that global warming could be one of the causes behind the huge increase of the giant jellyfish population in Japanese coasts. Via Japanprobe, Reuters. Read more about jellyfish in Japan.
Somebody with a good sense of humor designed this sign that is located on a street in Kyoto. It warns drivers that around the area there are “Lots of beautiful ladies” (美人多し) and because of that they should “Stop for a while” (一旦停止). Picture taken by Uchujin during his visit to Kyoto two weeks ago
Thanks to WasabiNoise I discovered Kosai Sekine, a Japanese short film director with quite a few refreshing ideas. This is his last short film, which won the golden medal in the New York City Short Film Festival. I really like the message he wants to share and how he captures the particular atmosphere of a [...]
Samurai have been the most powerful social class in Japan for centuries. From the 12th century and on, the warrior class known in Japanese as ‘bushi’ or ‘samurai’, started having power within the social structure and even within the political sphere. Samurai followed a lifestyle, an ethos, certain rules, a code, which spread to all [...]
Lately I have started to go jogging around the Emperor’s palace and around Yoyogi Park. One of the first things that grabbed my attention when I started was that EVERYBODY runs in a counterclockwise direction, something which is kind of mysterious because we are talking about people who usually jog anywhere in the city where [...]
New edition of my photo collection of Japanese people sleeping. I still don’t get tired of taking pictures of Japanese people sleeping, it still amazes me how it is so easy for them to fall asleep in any place and how they don’t care about it. Notice how they don’t worry about their purses, bags [...]
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