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Month: August 2004

  • A Sad Time for China

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    Thousands of flag-waving, profanity-yelling Chinese soccer fans upset about their 3-1 Asia Cup loss Saturday night blocked Japanese fans from leaving Beijing’s Workers’ Stadium. Chinese fans also pelted a bus that left the stadium with bottles and garbage and prevented Japanese spectators from leaving through a special gate. Several thousand others also blocked streets surrounding…

  • Nakameguro Street Art 2

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    Again, somewhere in Nakameguro.

  • Date

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    Is there a point to having everything dated? I’ve already ranted about the fact that to me this site is more like a magazine (at least that’s the way I approach it), and I’m questioning the use of dates and time associated with all posts. Is it necessary? I mean, does anybody ever visit archives…

  • Metropolis Renewed

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    With its latest issue, Tokyo’s English weekly city guide METROPOLIS has just launched an updated version of itself. I’d say they’ve done a good job, and I’m already liking what I see. More things to read, a return of the back page editorial (the old TOKYO CLASSIFIED, as the magazine used to be called, “Rants…

  • Short Film Cafe Loop

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    Today I picked up a flyer for what looks like a very interesting cafe. Short Film Cafe Loop, as the title suggests, screens short films as you sip your favorite cafe drink. You can have a look at the program at their site. The cafe itself is in Aoyama, along Route 246 heading towards Shibuya,…

  • Nakameguro Street Art

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    Somewhere in Nakameguro.

  • An Afternoon in Nakameguro

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    I leave Ikebukuro early in the afternoon for an outing in Nakameguro. The first thing I do when arriving is to take out the issue of RES I brought with me, the one with the Superfuture map of Nakameguro, so I can find the Groovisions shop, GRV1788. As I slowly make my way there, I…

  • 500

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    That latest Tokyo Boy entry (“Idee“) is the 500th entry. Here’s to many more! And I’ll soon be moving the moblog to WP, so expect a few changes within the week.

  • Totoro at the Expo

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    From Boing Boing: A replica of the Kusakabe residence, the house featured in Hayao Miyazaki’s 1988 animated masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro, will be built for EXPO 2005 being held in Aichi, Japan, from 25 March – 25 September, 2005. It will be constructed within the woods of the Expo site using techniques of the early…

  • Microsoft Blogs in Japan

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    And the Microsoft invasion continues. Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it was launching its first-ever Web log service in Japan next week and aimed to have one million users in the first year, intensifying competition with Google Inc. More info in the full Yahoo! News article.