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Month: January 2004

  • Social Circles

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    Very cool new project from Marcos Weskamp, creator of Habitat Perspectives. This page of his new Social Circles app shows the JapanBloggers mailing list. Fascinating stuff.

  • Dick Bruna

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    They had a display at Libro (a bookstore in Ikebukuro) of Dick Bruna book covers.

  • Gangsters Versus Idols

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    Seems like gangsters have found a new revenue stream. An increasingly organized underworld [targets] Japanese stars, [follows] them around with hidden cameras in the hope of grabbing compromising footage that could bring them a small fortune. The full article from the MAINICHI DAILY NEWS is here.

  • Shintaro Sato

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    Shintaro Sato has some very cool pics on his site. I especially like this series. Link via Chad from Superfuture.

  • Jean Snow Versus Japanese

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    One of my New Year’s resolutions is to get a stronger handle on Japanese. Yeah, it’s not the first time I wish for this, but it’s really something I need to confront head on, as I’m starting to get embarrassed (for the amount of time I’ve lived here, it’s not where it should be). So,…

  • Blogwise

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    I submitted my site to Blogwise a while back, and it’s now been listed. Of the 12 102 blogs that are listed, I’m only one out of 74 sites listed in the “Japan” category. Looks like a good directory, although I haven’t really had time to explore it yet.

  • Year of the Monkey

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    It’s the year of the monkey, as you can see from this outside display at Parco in Ikebukuro. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.

  • From One Year to the Next

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    Towards the end of the afternoon, we head out to Seibu to get some food from the depa-chika (the basement level of most big department stores hosts mostly pre-cooked food counters, like a giant market – Seibu in Ikebukuro has one of the best ones). As always, we start with cheese and a baguette, and…

  • Don Quijote

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    Don Quijote stores are way fun. They’re pretty much open 24 hours (the one in Ikebukuro closes at 6 and opens at 10), and you can go there not wanting to buy anything, but just to browse the wacky selections of things on sale. Me and Yuko sometimes go there at 1-2am when we want…

  • Pink

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    We start the new year in pink. Shot taken yesterday at very-busy Seibu (except for this shop). It’s what the cool pre-teen girls are wearing. Shot taken with the A5403CA mobile phone.