Living in Japan
A Rilakkuma Christmas
Merry Christmas to all the readers of shibuya246. It has been great to talk with you all this year through the comments and on twitter. Rilakkuma and…
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Living in Japan
Everyday life in Japan: homes, schools, language and the small things that are different.
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Japanese Christmas Eve
In Japan, Christmas Eve is the main event for many Japanese. You see many workers hurrying out their office buildings to quickly meet up with others and…
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Gundam Shizuoka
The 1/1 scale Gundam is going to be back on display in Shizuoka this time. You will be able to see it while riding the Shinkansen? That would be a cool…
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Site Review
In the top right hand corner of the site, if you are logged in you can see a featured post from the "Amazon Japan Cool Picks" corner which is being…
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Tokyo Midtown Santa Xmas Tree
I went to see the illuminations at Tokyo Midtown , Roppongi, and found this great Santa Christmas tree. What type of Christmas trees do you have at your…
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Japan Festival Food
There are often mini festivals on in Japan around the station area. This one was a couple of days ago, but I forgot to put the pictures up. I was passing…
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Japan Blood Types
It is raining in Tokyo and most of Japan today. I was planning to play golf, but decided to cancel due to the rain. I much prefer playing in sunshine ^^.…
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Japan Lost Luggage
Many of you following me on Twitter saw that I forgot my camera bag on the train today with my Nikon D700 and lenses inside. When I got on the train I was…
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CGM Night #6 at Cospa HQ
CGM Night #6 was held last night at the Shibuya head office of Cospa. The location was perfect and by the time I arrived the room was already full. The…
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Hachiko FootBoy
Looks like someone has been playing around with the statue in front of Shibuya station near Hachiko. I walk past this statue all the time, but normally…
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Michael Moore in Shibuya, Tokyo
Michael Moore was in Shibuya today filming with what looked like the NHK film crew. I was just passing through and saw him as they were filming near…
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Japan Drama Location
I was looking out of my window at lunch time and saw this police car stopped behind another car with people milling around. At first I thought we might…
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Japan Fire Inspections
After a number of fires at restaurants and small zakkyo (雑居) buildings, the fire inspectors have been out performing spot checks at various buildings…
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Cosplay Christmas
Cosplay comes in many forms in Japan. When you combine Christmas it can either be very cute or a little too much Rudolph Reindeer. I went shopping on the…
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Japanese Government Blog
Looks like the new Japanese Government formed under Hatoyama-san have started a blog on Ameba. There is an official editor for the blog talking about…
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Japan Google Popular Searches
I came across an interesting picture showing a comparison of searches in Japanese on Google for "husband" and "wife". It looks like the women who I assume…
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View from my window
The other day was a nice clear sunset which gave the view from my window an extended reach all the way down to Yokohama. I could just make out the…
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Japanese Kakeibo (家計簿)
Many Japanese housewives keep a record of the months spending in a book called a 家計簿 (kakeibo), housekeeping book. When they are out shopping they will…