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• Japan, Odd

  Angel Blue

  12.31.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Angel Blue mascot.

• Japan, Life in Japan

  Angel Blue vs Red Hot Chili Peppers

  12.30.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  One interesting aspect of living in Japan is hearing violent and sexual lyrics played in songs at the most inopportune times. I was in an Angel Blue store helping Reiko buy presents for a friend’s baby. Angel Blue specialises in clothes for the tween – colours are heavily weighted to blues and pinks and they [...]

• Culture Shock, Japan, Life in Japan

  Bamboo blessing

  12.29.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m off to Yamaguchi for a couple of days to meet with Reiko’s family. I’ve worked out how to do future posting so I’ve got posts lined up for most days I’m gone. Here’s today’s. The above picture admittedly isn’t a great one but it shows an interesting event. My next door neighbours recently decided [...]

• Japan, Life in Japan

  2006 Cities Visited

  12.28.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Taking a cue again from Kottke, here are the list of cities I visited in 2006. Osaka (of course) Tokyo Hong Kong Kobe Yamaguchi Kishiwada Not as long as the 2005 List but a little more far flung. It seems I need to do more travelling in 2007. What does your 2006 list look like?

• Culture Shock, Japan, Life in Japan

  Christmas in Japan 2006

  12.27.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Christmas in Japan is a strange thing. Christmas, as An Englishman in Osaka reminded me, is only for children anyway. And although I left the grey December skies of England for the mild winters of Osaka, it doesn’t feel like Christmas. It was only until the last week of teaching that I started to get [...]

• Japan, Odd, TV

  Soramimi

  12.21.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  On YouTube there are a lot of soramimi videos. Soramimi is a program on Japanese TV which viewers send in foreign songs which have parts that sound like they are saying something odd in Japanese. According to Wikipedia soramimi means a word used in the Japanese language to describe lyrics of a song that sound [...]

• Japan, Life in Japan, TV

  Gemma Ward Indivi

  12.17.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve written about famous people doing adverts in Japan before but I like this one of Gemma Ward for the Japanese fashion brand Indivi. I’ve never heard of Gemma Ward but this surreal advert set in a fairytale wood with magical speaking creatures appeals to me. What I like the most about it is the [...]

• Japan, Life in Japan

  Prewalking

  12.16.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I was introduced to the concept of prewalking by an American sometime in late 2005 although I didn’t know it by that name. Prewalking is defined by UrbanDictionary.com as: To position oneself on a subway platform such that, when the passenger steps off the train at his destination, he’ll be as close as possible to [...]

• Teaching

  Making children cry daily since 2005

  12.07.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I`ve been considering making the title of this post the byline for my blog when I redesign it. Somewhere below the picture or something would go: Undercover in Japan Making children cry since 2005 I promise you I don`t enjoy it. I don`t get sexual gratification pulsating through my body whenever I compel a child [...]

• Life in Japan

  The necessity of open source software in Japan

  12.04.06 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  When I bought the PC I`m writing on now, it came with Microsoft Windows. IN JAPANESE. Microsoft Office. IN JAPANESE. And a dainty wireless keyboard that you see above. IN JAPANESE. This all despite me knowing at that time. ABSOLUTELY NO JAPANESE. Look at my pathetic spacebar. Either side of it there are keys which [...]

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