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 [...]
Does anyone know if the Urban Challenge, or some variant, has made its way to Tokyo? I think this would be a fantastic event — and an even greater challenge with the language differences. One could really make some tough questions if they required translations for the answer. Plus, the Japanese language [...]
I checked out the Asakusa Samba Festival this past Saturday, in which my boss and another colleague participated. The photo gallery should speak for itself, but I’ll add that the crowd was definitely insane. I have never seen so many Japanese officers-of-the-law doing crowd control. They were polite as always, and seemingly [...]
Just returned to Tokyo after a wonderful week with the family in New York (so great a city, they had to name it twice), and attending the marriage of my friend Ben to Becky. Ben and I spent a good number of years attending the same academic institutions — 3 years in highschool and [...]
Oh yes it did. Hard. Leaving work a tad early Thursday for a 1.5 hour shinkansen ride towards the mountainside, Andrew and I pitched our tent in what felt like a refugee camp (though with a rainbow theme). It was unfortunate that it rained for most of the weekend; I had to [...]
The BBC has a simple article detailing the recent flash mobs in Manhattan. Gen Kanai had a post about this a few weeks ago, which garnered a few comments. Maybe it’ll be touched upon at tonight’s bloggers meetup being held at the Pink Cow…
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