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March 31, 2007
great minds
another photo from my half-size Olympus
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March 29, 2007
the birdman of osaka castle
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March 27, 2007
Osaka
Down in Osaka at the moment researching rakugo and robots. Here's one of the castle.
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March 23, 2007
new camera
Picked up a new camera the other day - an old half frame Olympus (2 pictures to every 35mm frame). This photo was taken round the back of the correspondent's club in Yurakucho.
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March 21, 2007
Tokyo Marathon (5)
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social networking sites
"Tokyo Architect Yuki Nikitaki has 28 friends on the “mixi” website. She logs on everyday, posts entries to her online diary, and sends messages to her friends. Some she knows offline, but some she has never met face to face and several live in other parts of Japan or overseas. “I don’t think I would have ever met these friends if it wasn’t for the site,” she says.
Nikitaki is one millions of people to join “social network service” (SNS) sites over the last few years in Japan . . . " Read article
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March 19, 2007
Tokyo Marathon (4)
at the finish . . .
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March 16, 2007
Tokyo Marathon (3)
Some runners passing Asakusa's Sensoji in the pouring rain
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March 14, 2007
Tokyo Marathon (2)
Organisers handed out plastic raincovers to keep runners warm till the start.
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Kabuki props
This is an article Mattias Westfalk and I did on Fujinami Kodogu, the the Kabuki theatre's sole props supplier for the last 300 or so years. (photo Mattias Westfalk)
View PDF(first page is blank!)
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March 11, 2007
Tokyo Marathon
Last month I spent a very wet day taking photos of the Tokyo marathon. Here's the first of a set of photos.
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Publisher arrested
article on Kami no Bakudan now on the Japan Focus website too
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March 06, 2007
Abe-chan
Japan's erstwhile Premier
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arrested for libel
This is an article I wrote about the arrest of a Japanese publisher. Updated for the Foreign Correspondent's Club Magazine.
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March 03, 2007
men at work
the sign says "men at work. danger! no entry"
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March 01, 2007
beach
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