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Last February I celebrated my 30th birthday. In Japan when you are 30 years old you are entering the 三十路 (MISOJI) “The thirties way”. During these 30 years I have learned, unlearned and relearned many things like just everybody else. Below, 30 things that I think I have learned during my way to the thirties, [...]
Google has done an amazing job and has taken its cameras (not only on top of its cars) to tourist places around Japan and has integrated the images into Google Street View. You can visit some of these places in this site where the most interesting ones have been selected. In the menu with photos [...]
I’m very happy to find the first reviews of my book, “A Geek in Japan”. Thank you! These are some excerpts from your reviews: I lived in Japan for 4 years and every-time I used to step out of my house, I used to see something and wonder what that is, wonder why they do [...]
My book A Geek in Japan will be finally officially on sale in bookstores all over the world from Friday! I will be giving a short presentation about the book at Aoayama Book Center Roppongi the 30th of this month from 20:00. See you there! Schedule: Thursday June 30th, 2011 20:00 start Place: Aoyama Book [...]
After devastating the Philippines, where it has left victims on its way, Songda typhoon arrives in Japan. Even though it has lost a lot of power, the typhoon is affecting mostly to Okinawa, where many electricity pylons and lamp posts have fallen due to the strong winds, and hundreds of houses have been temporarily left [...]
Source: Reddit
Custom-kun (カスタム君), is a mascot that I specially like. He is the mascot of the Japanese Customs. Yes, in Japan they come up with kawaii mascots for almost anything, even the Japanese police has its own official mascot. Since some days ago Custom-kun even has his own Twitter account, such an authority
Seen last Sunday in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo.
