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I’m off to Shanghai tomorrow until Monday. Any recommendations where to go?

Cheers!

Got sent an email just now about these outstanding rice fields.

Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety. This year’s creation — a pair of grassy reproductions of famous woodblock prints from Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fuji — has begun to appear (above). It will be visible until the rice is harvested in September.

I thought they were edited on computer until I saw these pictures

Via Pink Tentacle

Yoda Origami via Japundit via Neo Samurai

Here’s how to make it

This hangs from from old buildings and channels rainwater to the ground.

I`m not normally a fan of Japanese manga, anime or dramas but I recently got sucked into watching an 11 part drama called Proposal Daisukusen (Operation Love) and loved it.

The story is about a man who`s in love with his childhood friend. Unfortunately he`s attending her wedding to another man.

A male fairy appears and sends him back in time via the pictures in the wedding slideshow to see if he can change the future.

I got into it by the 3rd episode and was quickly hooked by the feelings of nostalgia the show emanates and by the unlucky antics of the main character.

The title song is also great. Ashita harerukana by Keisuke Kuwata.

If that sort of thing floats your boat and you can find a way of getting it, I highly recommend it.

Is there any way this boy can be any ruder? This photo was taken on a 7:00 am rush hour train. He`s taking up 4 seats!

4 SEATS!

You bow at the end of a phone call with your Japanese staff.

Anyone know what kind of connection this is on the side of my TV? I want to connect stuff to it and can’t decipher the manual.