Gen posted a few times about the recently released Sofia Coppola movie Lost In Translation, but I kept passing over them until I was hit with another reference to it on Nippon Gorogoro today. There’s also a 5-star praise if I’ve ever read one over at the New York Times. Following up on [...]
I love this perspective of how the more entertainment-oriented industries just might be able to learn something from the fashion industry. Thanks Steve.
Japan Today has an amusing article on why it’s more common to find Western-male/Japanese-female couples rather than vice-versa. A few choice quotes:
Western girls [are] more demanding. I think that is what puts most [Japanese] men off. They would rather be pampered. For example, I spoke to a Japanese couple recently. After they got married, [...]
Fast Company held their RealTime Conference a few months ago, and now they’ve got transcripts from some of the speaker sessions up. I say Sony should work with David Rockwell after having read his speech. It’s a bit incohesive, but I like his key points.
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Found this somewhat annoying article about the Japanese Imperial family’s spending habits (thanks NGG). It’s bad enough that I have to pay U.S. and Japanese taxes, and to find out it’s being used like this? The Imperial family is an important symbol for sure, but I think it’s about time Japan does a [...]
Spent from mid-afternoon to the early evening watching large amounts of human mass — often quite hairy — charge into each other. Sometimes the clever ones would step aside at the last minute and help the opponent find his way outside the ring. There are still many bits of Sumo tradition that I [...]
Some of you have already heard the news, while others may have noticed an abnormally high frequency of entries recently. Technically as of last Friday evening, and officially as of this past Monday morning, my group’s research has been terminated and the group is being disbanded. Luckily I saw this coming almost six [...]
A few of you know of my infatuation with the ex-Lazy Susan building located in Omotesando (map). It’s an old 11 story apartment building built back in the 1970s that hasn’t had any residents for over 10 years. It’s called the Lazy Susan building because the first floor was functioning as a shop. [...]
About two months ago I broke down and bought a JVC DVD player for my expanding Japanese DVD collection. Unfortunately, last week it just wouldn’t turn on. Aftering calling them up to see how one goes about getting it fixed, they actually sent someone to my place a few days later to take [...]
Thanks Jim for this cool link.
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