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They actually titled it "Judgement Day"
Only the Japanese would use music from the "Terminator" movies in their election coverage.
Seriously though in case you haven't heard the news. The "Democratic Party of Japan" DPJ has won in a landslide victory gaining 308 seats in the house of Representatives. This is an amazing change for the Japanese as a political system. In true Japanese ( Read more... ) -
On Cooking
So the great thing for me about living at a new place is that I get to dictate some new cooking instruments. Right now I'm trying out the Alton Brown method of having as few items as possible. (work those multi-taskers) Right now I have a 14" Circulon Hard-Anodized Open Stir Fry pan and a 10" Lodge Cast Iron griddle.
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Hikikomori
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Probably a topic which will come across pretty often, but always interesting to re-investigate are the hikikomori and otaku phenomenon in Japan. Perhaps no accident my Graduate mentor had completed his thesis on the Hikikomori phenomenon. His blog on the topic can be found here. I'm quite impressed with his work and it looks like he's living the ( Read more... ) -
Exo-Squad
So I've discovered that Hulu has Exo-Squad. This is perhaps the most exciting thing I've seen for sometime.
The story is fairly complex for children's show and rivals Gundam in it's treatment of war. Basically the human race has colonized Mars and Venus, with the help of slaves Neosapiens to do the hard labor. Now everyone can be middle to upper ( Read more... ) -
Turning Japanese
Above is a recording of an excellent interview with my personal role model George Takei. There's this other guy too, but I don't know what's the deal with him.
Growing up as an Asian-American in the 80's I didn't have many asian role models on TV. It was mostly just George Takei and Martin Yan. (This may explain why I like cooking and Sci-Fi so much ( Read more... )
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