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- 7 Ways to Smile Your Way Through the Tokyo Marathon (or any run)
- February 19th, 2014
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- Harajuku Thrift: Not Your Grandma’s Vintage… oh wait.
- September 27th, 2013
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- GPodding with Anthony: Modeling in Japan
- December 9th, 2013
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- The Cold, Dark Depths of Takedao Tunnels
- November 24th, 2009Category: Travel
- Imagine yourself, in a place where the shadows make lonely company, and darkness seeps into every corner. The air feels damp and cold around you and it is as eerie and still as a graveyard. Like a bad dream, you hope you it ends soon, but time passes as slow as a wet ... » Continue Reading
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- The many colors of Tokyo Tower
- November 11th, 2009Category: Travel
- No matter how many times those living in Tokyo check out the iconic Tokyo Tower, every time they looks up at night, there is something different to be seen. How does it do this? (more…) ... » Continue Reading
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- Kiyosu Castle
- November 11th, 2009Category: Travel
- While the Sixties bring to mind images of hippies, Woodstock, students on the street, The Beatles on a rooftop and Jimi’s guitar on fire, the decade wasn’t all colour and light. In Japan, from the late Fifties through the Sixties, while campuses became battlegrounds, ... » Continue Reading
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- Komaki: Culture, Sex and Death.
- November 9th, 2009Category: Travel
- Thirty minutes north of Nagoya, in the heart of the commuter belt, lies Komaki. This town was formed around the castle built by Oda Nobunaga in 1563. The castle was the 3rd to be built by Nobunaga, after Nagoya and Kiyosu. The idea was to make it a staging point from ... » Continue Reading
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- The exotic erotic bijin poetess, Ono no Komachi
- November 6th, 2009Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Hey all, it’s me, Akie your Akita bijin in one of my funky moods. I am lying here on my futon after my ofuro (bath) thinking about one of my favorite historical figures, the legendary Ono no Komachi. Now, if you look back at my past blogs, you’ll notice that I ment ... » Continue Reading
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- The Okinawan Rain Kami-sama
- November 5th, 2009Category: Travel
- My good friend Mike, who’s lived on Okinawa for decades, has a theory! It goes that whenever the Okinawan’s plan a party, the weather will hold off for as long as the event is scheduled for. Now by party, I mean festivals. Okinawa could easily be described as the isla ... » Continue Reading
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- Video: Behind the scenes of Japan Fashion Week
- October 30th, 2009Category: Video
- Japan Fashion Week wrapped up last week in Tokyo Midtown, the event passed a lot of people in the international press by, but Tokyo still remains the place where H&M, Forever 21 and a host of other major brands battle for every last millimeter of retail space. We t ... » Continue Reading
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- When disaster strikes
- October 26th, 2009Category: Travel
- Japan has a long history of dealing with Mother Nature’s mood swings. From typhoons to earthquakes to tsunamis, its people have learned the importance of preparing for the worst. Foreigners who move here and wish to develop a similar sense of environmental awareness mig ... » Continue Reading
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- The Wackiest Japanese Beauty Products Ever
- October 22nd, 2009Category: Shopping
- Have you ever wandered the aisles of your local Japanese drug store chain wondering what most of the stuff is? Well, me too. And once I found out what some of it actually was, I had to laugh. But who really knows if these products work or not? It’s hard to say who wil ... » Continue Reading
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- Pop a (pretty difficult) squat
- October 21st, 2009Category: Culture
- Here is a challenge for you: try to squat just like the little boy in the picture. He was tired of walking all over the zoo and decided to just rest for a second. Notice how his knees are touching and his feet are perfectly flat, yet he had no problem balancing his weig ... » Continue Reading
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- The Mediterranean of Japan: Discovering Japan’s Seto Inland Sea
- October 21st, 2009Category: Travel
- Recently I took a trip to Shiraishi-jima, an island of “mists and trances” in the Seto Inland Sea. This little island is just one of the 250 islands of the Seto Inland Sea. A lot of foreigners overlook the islands in the Seto Inland Sea and opt for Okinawa or Shikoku ... » Continue Reading
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- The Paths of Glory: Yokohama Foreign Cemetery
- October 20th, 2009Category: Travel
- During difficult times, it is always comforting to know that you are not alone, that others have stood where you stand, have gone through what you’re going through and come out the other side. Regardless of how adventurous we feel when first we board the plane that t ... » Continue Reading