Japan Blog revamped
After 3 years of neglect, I’ve finally revamped this Japan Blog and hope to start writing here again. The previous blog system was so cumbersome to use, and upgrading it…
Our online gallery’s new look and features
Our online photo gallery at PHOTOGUIDE.JP/pix/ has undergone a major makeover upon the upgrade of the software that runs it. It now has a new look and feel even though…
Cell phone decoration
Spotted this camera phone while I was watching a festival in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. It’s not a clamshell type phone. The top slides upward to reveal numeric keys underneath. Such…
Japanzine’s Best of Japan On the Web 2009
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
Vintage sumo videos
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, Best of Japan On the Web 2009 by Japanzine
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
New Year’s less special
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…
mixi, Japan’s largest SNS
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…
Joined mixi, Japan’s largest SNS
I finally joined mixi.jp a few days ago just to see what the fuss was about. It just had an IPO, making the founders millionaires/billionaires. mixi is a social networking…