October, 2012
Kajukansa is a mascot that promotes oranges from Kagoshima. His body is composed by four varieties of satsuma oranges: In the past, Kagoshima prefecture was known as Satsuma, and from there the first satsuma oranges were exported overseas. In Spain, in the Valencia region (where I come from), “satsumas” are also cultivated; most of the [...]
I started the month of October landing in Singapore. It was the third time I visited the city-state: the first time on holiday and the second time for work. The city is so compact, “perfect” and “easy to use” that even if you stay for a short period of time you will start feeling like [...]
My friend Zordor sends me these two short videos that made my day. Stereotypes might seem absurd, but they are important as they are the image that a country projects to the rest of the world. When I tell Japanese people that I have just met that I am from Spain, almost all of them [...]
Via Ikusuki via Love living in Japan.
My book A Geek in Japan has been on sale for more than a year now and it has been a success thanks to you! I’m very happy to announce that now it is also available for kindle as A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony – [...]
I recently saw the adaptation of the anime Rurouni Kenshin to a live-action movie and I found it fabulous! Visually speaking the movie is impressive; while at the same time its plot is very entertaining. Maybe one of its problems is that it tries to be too faithfull to the anime and it assumes that [...]
