I was pretty pleased with the photos here: two trips to the bath house, the second one with my friend Chris - his debut nude modelling shoot!
This month a group of 16 experts led by the Japanese Archaeological Association released results from their February visit inside Gosashi tomb. . ."
[read more]]]>I was pretty pleased with the photos here: two trips to the bath house, the second one with my friend Chris - his debut nude modelling shoot!
"Rainbow Roll isn’t a typical Tokyo sushi restaurant. Bright and spacious, it’s more like an upmarket izakaya restaurant pub. You could easily miss the traditional hinoki-wood counter at the back. The menu suggests little traditional sushi. Tokyo’s oldest New York-style sushirestaurant opened in September 2001 with a menu centered on U.S. sushi rolls, and a clientele about 40% non-Japanese. The restaurant is a product of gyaku-yunyu (reverse import) — the culinary equivalent of selling sand to the Saudis . . ."read more
Not about the seminal blues band I'm afraid.
An article on a sushi competition I attended earlier this year. gochisosama . . .
"It was certainly an incongruous setting for a master-class in cuttingedge cuisine. Seven sushi masters,more accustomed to wielding the knife behind long cypress sushi counters,now found themselves surrounded by oak-paneled walls and imposing portraits of nineteenth-century grandees. . ." read more
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"Hamming it up for the camera"
An interview I did for the American Chamber of Commerce Magazine. Interesting guy to talk to -- and fine beer sausages!
"Jason P. Morgan is the man they call “The Meat Guy.”Ham, sausages or sirloin steak. Whatever meat you want, wherever you are in Japan, he’ll sell it to you. Just don’t ask him to mince his words. . . . " Read More
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Not so long ago I was interviewed for a magazine published by the Japan Foundation. The article is here - all in Japanese I am afraid.
As it was part of a series on students of Japanese and their jobs, they asked me to take along some of the texts I had used to learn Japanese. I chose two manga books and a collection of poetry by Aida Mitsuo.
Hopefully I come across better than my last online interview, where I ended up suggesting I did most of my research by reading manga.
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I spent all of yesterday taking photos of people waiting by the statue of Hachiko in Shibuya (for more on Hachiko, see here).
This guy was taking photos too. The photo of me is from his blog.
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The article was prompted by a blog by Debito Arudou back in October. Debito also blogged my article and there are some comments on his site.
Japan has a deep-seated infatuation with mechanical friends, whether it is with the heroes of manga (comic books) and anime (animation), hard-working industrial robots, or the public relations humanoids of major Japanese corporations. Currently, all eyes are on the service-
robot sector . . . Read more
"Day in, day out at the same old office? Same commute? Same old job?
Same old you? Now could be your chance to escape to a new Second
Life. Why not join the 9.5 million people who have become residents of
the 3D online world since 2003? . . ."read more
"Ornamental cherry trees all over the Japanese archipelago have been blossoming unseasonably this fall, according to local media reports.
A few sakura trees—as they are known in Japan—bloom in fall most years.
But with more blossoms appearing earlier this year, there is concern that climate change is affecting a much-loved national symbol of spring . . . " [More]
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