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…
Tanaka Kio, Nagasaki bomb survivor dies
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…
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…
Registered at YouTube
I finally gathered my video clips of Japan taken with my compact digicam or miniDv video camera and put the better ones online at YouTube. See it here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=photojpn I’ve…
Losing your language
On April 20, 2006, a long-lost former Japanese army soldier who was stationed on Russia’s Sakhalin island when World War II ended, finally visited his native Iwate Prefecture and was…
TV cell phones
April 1, 2006 in Japan saw the official start of the so-called “one-seg” (one segment) wireless transmission of TV channels on the cell phone. With a compatible cell phone, we…
World Baseball Classic 2006
Wow, what an unexpected surprise the WBC turned out to be, especially for Japan. After Mexico beat the US to enable Japan to advance to the semi-finals against Korea, interest…
NHK Taiga Drama
I’m currently watching and enjoying NHK’s Taiga Drama called “Komyo ga Tsuji,” (功名が辻) a year-long period drama set during the turn of the 17th century. It features a footsoldier samurai…