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- Beating the crowds during holiday season in Japan
- September 18th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Events, Shopping
- In the Japanese holiday seasons, it is near impossible to avoid crowds and travel can be expensive. Here are some hints on how to avoid costs and crowds and still have a great time. 1. If possible, book your train or airplane tickets so that you depart a day or ... » Continue Reading
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- Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri
- September 13th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Travel
- According to history, the Danjiri Matsuri (float festival) was held in the 16th year of the Genroku era in 1703. It was started by the Daimyo of Kishiwada, Okabe Nagayasu, when he prayed to Shinto gods for abundant harvest. Start: September 15, 2012 End: Septemb ... » Continue Reading
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- Dress Up and Fly
- September 10th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Admit it. At one point in your life you’ve imagined yourself as a superhero or an anime character. You took a short blanket, wrapped it around you to make it a cape and called yourself a superhero who can fly. It’s one of those experiences you can look back on and te ... » Continue Reading
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- The Midnight Fire of Matsuji
- September 6th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Events, Travel
- With the summer heat invading Japan, I decided to take a trip down memory lane by browsing through some winter pictures I took around Tohoku. I instantly remembered how cold that January night was and enjoyed the brief cooling sensation. I recalled the strange sights, b ... » Continue Reading
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- AKB48 member holds emotional ‘graduation’
- August 31st, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- The popular group loses one of its stars but there are plenty others to take her place in the music juggernaut. When Atsuko Maeda, a 21-year-old singer in the mega-popular girl group AKB48 gave her farewell concert on Aug 27 in Akihabara, 250,000 fans applied for ... » Continue Reading
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- Karizma in the Mix – Series of DJ performances by Karizma documented by Kumigar
- August 30th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Hi everyone, this week, I want to share a video I made as a tribute to Karizma, who has inspired me with his amazing DJ-ing performances and encouraged me to make videos to share with my music family years back before I started doing the Dancing Chef Kumigar videos for ... » Continue Reading
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- Super Yosakoi Weekend
- August 30th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Events, Photography
- If ever you're down Harajuku way on the last weekend of August, be sure to see the Super Yosakoi dance festival. What started in Kochi in 1954 has spread across Japan and is now a highly competitive genre of dance. It booms energy, brilliantly coloured costumes and a le ... » Continue Reading
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- Comics, Cosplay and Coolness at Comiket
- August 15th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Events
- Tokyo Big Site - The Home of Comiket One can never be too old for comic books. This has been proven by the Japanese, as seen from thousands of attendees of comic book conventions and cosplay events in various parts of the country. These people have 3 Cs to look f ... » Continue Reading
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- The School of Rock
- August 15th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- LiVEJAM Music School provides more than just an outlet for Tokyo’s teenagers. A lot of schools in Tokyo (be they international or Japanese) have good music programs, many have extra curricular orchestra, brass, string and even modern ensembles to give student ... » Continue Reading
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- Gimme Origami!
- August 9th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Origami is the art of paper folding. It came from the word "ori" which means folding and "kami" meaning, paper. It started in the 17th century AD and was popularized outside of Japan in the mid 1900s and has since then, evolved into modern art form. We're all used to se ... » Continue Reading
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- The Japanese Rite of Passage
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- Do you want to connect with AKB48 on Google+?
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- Snapshots With the GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition
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