Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Just flicking through the channels last night, I came across the strangely familiar sight of naked Japanese men in nappy-like white loin cloths getting drunk and dancing through the streets. This isn’t an R-rated post, it was just one of the many many Japanese festivals which take […]
May 2009
Tamagotchi
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I remember when the very first Tamagotchi came out in 1996. They were all the rage for a while, then like other fads (think rubiks cubes), they are now gathering dust in the back of wardrobes. However, they did not fade away, like many people think. They […]
Tsukishima – The Little Village in the Big City
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! You know how it is; you go to certain town city on a pretty regular basis. However you find yourself getting stuck into a rut of going to the same places each time – favourite parts of town, the regular bars, the usual restaurants. That’s kind of […]
10 things not to miss – Part 2
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! 5/ “Harajuku girls you got that wicked style” – Sundays in Harajuku No one has done more to publicise the strange underworld of Japanese youth fashions and culture than Miss Gwen Stefani. After years of international success with her band No Doubt, Gwenni Gwen Gwen decided […]
Finding enlightenment at a Japanese Temple
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I think it goes without saying that the meaning of life isn’t the easiest thing to pin down. People from all corners of the earth have looked to religion and poetry, abstinence and indulgence, and nearly everything in between in the hopes of finding the answers to […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I think it goes without saying that the meaning of life isn’t the easiest thing to pin down. People from all corners of the earth have looked to religion and poetry, abstinence and indulgence, and nearly everything in between in the hopes of finding the answers to […]