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New World Guinness Record for Most Mascots Dancing

Por kirai el 07 de February de 2013 en Various

141 mascots gathered in Sasebo to beat the world Guiness record for most mascots dancing together. In Japan it is usual to create mascots to promote tourism in each prefecture; they are known as yuru-kyara, for example in Kagoshima they have Kajukansa to promote the oranges from the area. To be able to beat the [...]

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Kajukansa

Por kirai el 30 de October de 2012 en Various

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 [...]

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Spain Stereotypes vs. Japan Stereotypes

Por kirai el 20 de October de 2012 en Various

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 [...]

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Toilet Motorcycle

Por kirai el 17 de September de 2012 en Various

Japanese toilet maker TOTO has created a motorcycle prototype to raise awareness about water waste and emissions from live stock. TOTO has compromised to reduce its CO2 emissions by 50% during the next five years. The motorcycle runs on bio-fuel. Source: NyDailyNews

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Unattended Luggage in Japan

Por kirai el 15 de August de 2012 en Various

When Japanese people ask me for advice before going to Spain, the first thing I tell them is to always watch out for their belongings, to not leave their phone or wallet on the table in a restaurant or cafeteria, to always have their bags closed, etc. Here in Japan we never worry about this [...]

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Line to Eat Pancakes and Crepes in Omotesando

Por kirai el 15 de July de 2012 en Various

Several weeks ago the first Eggs ‘n Things restaurant in Omotesando opened and since then a huge line can be frequently seen of people waiting for hours just to eat crepes and pancakes. It’s been several weeks but there’s still a lot of people lining up. I took the video vertically. It’s quite crappy! For [...]

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The Eclipse from Tokyo

Por kirai el 21 de May de 2012 en Various

It’s been seven years since the last time I had the opportunity to see an annular eclipse. That time it was in Calpe (my hometown); this time, in Tokyo, I didn’t have my friend Albert here with his telescope and his astronomy knowledge, so I was not so well prepared; but with some Mizar glasses [...]

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The Zen of Steve Jobs, Kobun Chino Otogawa and Japan

Por kirai el 12 de March de 2012 en Various

Long ago I read iWoz, about the life of Steve Wozniak, but I had never had the chance to read any book about Steve Jobs. Last December I bought the official biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and I loved how it is written, it is addictive! I was especially interested in what happened [...]

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