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At the beginning of last week somebody with the nickname “Mato” ( 殺す ) wrote a message in 2 Channel (the most visited forum / BBS in Japan) saying that he was going to kill people indiscriminately on the streets near Shinjuku station south exit on Friday (yesterday) at 9:00pm. The announcement quickly spread around [...]
Shogakukan has just published a book which explains how to peel mandarins creating animal silhouettes. This is a short demonstration video on what you can get by skillfully peeling mandarins: In this website you can read some of the first pages of the book.
This road can be found between Nagano and Toyama prefectures in the “Japanese Alps”. The route is known as the Alpen Route and can only be used by cars “sometimes” The area is known for its ski resorts and also for the largest dam in Japan: Kurobe dam. Source: Karapia.livedoor.biz
In Tokyo we are starting the year with really cold temperatures. Here you have a strawberry-sized dessert and a curious way of building a “snowman”.
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 [...]
At the entrance of an offices building in Shinjuku I found this: In the sixth floor of the building there is a company named “Siesta”, like the traditional Spanish nap. I’ve been
I found funny these kindergarten kids exercising to the music of Indiana Jones on a building rooftop in Shinjuku. Exercising in building rooftops in Tokyo is something that you can frequently see in some big companies every morning but this is the first time that I see kids doing it.
Many Japanese believe that blood types define the personality of people. It seems that it’s not only something about personality but you also have to use a specific kind of bath salts that match your blood type Seen at a supermarket in my neighborhood.
