Japan Blog by Philbert Ono
Nagoya-based magazine Japanzine selected PhotoGuide Japan as one of the best Japan sites for 2009 under the Photo Gallery category. See the complete list here: http://www.seekjapan.jp/article/jz/1974/Best+of+Japan+On+the+Web+2009
I’ve been digitizing some old videotapes I shot years ago. Here are a few sumo gems.This is Akebono making hand prints at his stable in Tokyo in 1991. This was…
PhotoGuide Japan was selected by Japanzine magazine as one of the “Best of Japan On the Web 2009” sites under the Photo Gallery category. http://www.japanzine.jp/article/jz/1974/best-of-japan-on-the-web-2009
How awesome to see the first Hawaii-born US President being sworn in on Jan. 20, 2009. I couldn’t be in Washington, DC for the occasion, so I did the next…
New book called “The Companies We Keep 2” by Bob Sigall has been published with my photo of the Iolani Palace snow sculpture at the Sapporo Snow Festival is highlighted…
I was shocked and saddened to hear that Japan’s one and only super fashion model, Sayoko Yamaguchi, died of acute pneumonia on Aug. 14, 2007. She was 57. She was…
Asashoryu has never been popular in Japan. He has never struck a chord with the Japanese, despite his many tournament victories. On numerous occasions, he has projected a “bad boy”…
Well, another New Year’s has come and almost gone. It’s kind of sad to note that New Year’s in Japan is different from before. It is not as special as…
One of the most iconic images of the Nagasaki atom bomb was of a young mother breastfeeding her dying child as they wait for emergency treatment on the day after…
I finally joined http//mixi.jp in Sept. 2006 just to see what the fuss was about. It just had an IPO, making the founders millionaires/billionaires. mixi is a social networking site…