2010
Before the end of the year nothing better than my last captures to add to my collection of Japanese people sleeping: Japanese Sleeping – 8 Japanese Sleeping – 7 Japanese Sleeping – 6 Japanese Sleeping – 5 Japanese Sleeping – 4 Japanese Sleeping – 3 Japanese Sleeping – 2 Japanese Sleeping Japanese Sleeping Remix
Taro Okamoto is one of the most important Japanese artists of the 20th century. Most of his works can be enjoyed in Japanese museums and also in open spaces, like for example The Tower of the Sun, built in Osaka as the symbol of Expo ’70. The Myth of Tomorrow (Asu no shinwa – 明日の神話) [...]
When somebody asks me for a truly “weird” place in Tokyo, the Turkish mosque in Yoyogi Uehara is one of the places that comes to my mind. It’s not really impressive but if you visit it, it will make you feel like you are outside Japan for some moments, it’s a quite mysterious sensation. The [...]
Meido kissas are coffee shops where the waiters are dressed like maids. They are quite popular in certain areas of large Japanese cities. The competition for the clients is so fierce that new business arise based on the same idea but trying to differentiate themselves in some aspect; for example there are businesses where you [...]
After five years being hosted in Eduardo Arcos servers (Hipertextual). I have migrated the blog to a new server in JaguarPc. It has been quite complicated to move everything without screwing up something; let me know if something is not working well for you. Lots of thanks to Eduardo Arcos that has taken good care [...]
This is a music video of a promotion of a pachinko machine. The singer that appears in the video is Kabuda Nobuaki, a Japanese karate and K-1 fighter. Pretty weird.
In October, for the first time ever in Japan, more smartphones were sold than keitais (“traditional” Japanese cell phones). It seems like the Galapagos Syndrome is starting to hit really hard Japanese cell phone manufacturers, that have to compete more and more harder with smartphones developed in the United States and South Korea. The number [...]
When I posted about the Singing Robot developed by AIST Institute in Japan, I got an e-mail from Miguel Michán telling me about the Actroid-F, another robot from the same lab. I have also been reading about the latest developments of the Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories and it seems like they have ready a [...]
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