For January and February's song of the month, a video I have put together with short clips of some Johnny's songs I thought you might enjoy. Um, I spent a lot of time on this, so it'd be nice if you'd watch it.

What is Johnny's? You may not know this, but the boy band phenomenon is still well and alive in Japan. In fact, it was flourishing long ( Read more... )

Do you love blurry pictures of animals? Well then you're in luck!! That's exactly what I have for you today.

I should back up a bit. For the last couple weeks, my friend Kiersten has been staying with me as part of her attempt to see as much of the world as possible. Major props to her for that. Over the weekend, it occurred to me that despite my ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! I took a short (3 day weekend) trip up to Kyoto to visit TamDrew a couple weeks ago. Tammy is having computer issues, and I'm having camera issues, but I do have a few pictures from Andrew to show you. More coming soon I hope.

We visited a temple that had a lot of awesome fanged turtle carvings.

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WTF?!?, moments can spring up on you at any time in Japan. Here I was, just minding my own business in the supermarket when I noticed a new brand of kitty litter. Could be not work safe.

Okay, I did NOT need to see anthropomorphic kittens, peeing standing up, complete with male genitalia. I'm guessing you didn't need to see it either, but I thought ( Read more... )

Well, back in my apartment in Japan. I had a lovely Christmas, but this traveling sure is a pain. I left for the airport at 8:30 AM. When I got to my apartment in Japan, it was 3:00 AM the next day in America. Let's see.... that's 18 and a half hours of traveling? Blech. Not fun ( Read more... )

This morning, a group of students from the Junior High were collecting money for charity, and since they asked me so nicely, in English and everything, I pulled out my wallet and gave them the equivalent of $10 American. A little later in the day, the following conversation took place between myself and the head teacher ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I watched a couple episodes of the popular anime "Bleach", and while I didn't like the show much, I loved the closing song. That's why Rie Fu's "Life is like a Boat" is December's song of the month ( Read more... )

Remember THIS entry? Let's do it again!

I'll give you the wasei eigo (Japanese that's adapted from English), the pronunciation, and you figure out what it means and/or where it came from. Highlight to see the answers.

WordPronunciationMeaningOriginSutoobuSoo-toh-oh-booSpace heater
StoveDeikeyaaDay-ee-keh-yah-ahDaytime activities for the elderly ( Read more... )

I just remembered that I had a sort of errand to run in Harajuku last month, and I took some pictures while I was there ( Read more... )

One of the good things about living in Japan is that if I want to try some Asian cooking, I don't have to go to a specialty market for ingredients. Everything I need is right there at the local supermarket. Since it's getting colder, and I've been feeling a bit under the weather myself, I've been making myself Chinese Hot and Sour Soup recently ( Read more... )