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AFA11
Asia's biggest anime event Anime Festival Asia is just around the corner to take place from 2011.11.11. What I particularly find incredible about the event is that its put together by a handful of...
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Culture Japan Season 2 Premiere
My TV show Culture Japan is in its second season and premiers tonight in Japan on Tokyo MX TV at 22:30. BS11 will also be broadcasting Culture Japan from 16th October at 27:00.Culture Japan is an...
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Desktop or Laptop?
Photo of the office taken this morning. Sorry for the lack of updates - 201% of my life is currently being eaten up by the production of Culture Japan Season 2 which started its broadcast yesterday in...
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Adultery in Japan
You are in Japan and have a feeling that your partner is being unfaithful to you and having hanky panky with your best friend. If this fits your description then you are in luck as there are detective...
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Kids React to Hatsune Miku
How do American kids react when shown a video of the 3D hologram Hatsune Miku concert?#Is that real? #I'm confused #Are those people real? #Its like PokemonGreat videos - watch until the end where we...
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Anime Schedule
The Winter 2011/12 anime schedule is out. What are you most looking forward to? There is a poll embedded in this article.And how about the current Autumn season? I caught the first showing of Fate Zero...
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A Week in Tokyo 69
Life in Tokyo through photos covering the past few weeks. Tis been a while since the last installment of A Week in Tokyo. Usually takes me a day to sort out the photos and write up the English and...
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How I started to build my career in Japan
In the How Discovering Japan Changed My Life article, you read of how I made it to Japan but I didn't manage to cover the nitty gritty of what happened after I got here. Today we take a gander of what...
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Free tickets to Japan from the Japanese government
Announced today - the Japanese ministry of tourism is planning to invite 10,000 foreigners to Japan - and pay for your travel.Applications will be done through the internets and folks will be invited...
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Shinobu Oshino Figure
Do you like girlies? Do you like Do's? Do you like Nuts? Well I have just the thing for you - a cute girlie figure nomming on a Do-Nut.At last - a figure of Shinobu Oshino from Bakemonogatari to...
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Anime Magazines
I'd be a meanie if I kept all of these goodies to myself so I thought I'd best share em with you - a bunch of anime and manga that fell through the ceiling. Thanks to Peter at J-List for dropping them...
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Lalaport
You've probably seen a few photos of Lalaport in the A Week in Tokyo series and those who keep tabs on my Twitter or Facebook will have seen me live broadcasting from my iPhone at Lalaport too. Have...
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Saber and Melon
Saber wants to offer you some of her melon pan which I picked up for her while I was somewhere around the Asakusa-area. How often do you feed your daughters and what do you feed them?When out n about,...
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AKB48 Anime
For folks who have always preferred 2D girlies - now there is no excuse not to like AKB48 because they too are getting the 2D treatment in their own anime due out next Spring. The production has the...
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Moe Moe Kyun Cafe
In less than 3 weeks I'll be in Singapore - not only to MC for the Anime Festival Asia, not only to om nom on some pohpiah and teh-tarik, but also to om nom on some of the maids.Ah, forgot to complete...
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Halloween in Japan
Been living in Japan for about 12 years now and have watched how Halloween went from practically nothing to being celebrated throughout Japan. As the media pick up on festivities, more and more folks...
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Weiss Schwartz and Nendoroid
I had a vision the other day and I asked Ikkyu-san to visualize what I saw. The first vision was that after being figmatized, Mirai got her own Nendoroid.The second vision that I saw was that Mirai...
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Atelier Royale Cafe
Also known as the Dolphin Cafe, the Atelier Royal caters for those who prefer butlers over maids. Folks who are attending this years Anime Festival Asia can be treated to the husky fragrance of some...
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MacBook Air i7
Thanks to your feedback on my Twitter and Facebook, I went for the MacBook Air i7 instead of the i5. Have no idea what the speeds of the i5 would have been but the MacBook Air i7 is incredibly fast -...
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Culture Japan Jobs
Many folks think that my full time job is one where I sit at a computer waiting for mails to come in to be answered ^^; After leaving corporate life at Amazon and Microsoft, I started a small company...
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