For my archive, but also for anyone thinking of moving to Japan long-term (from Terrie’s Take):
…there are few if any concessions being given to encourage foreigners to feel like they are anything other than tax-paying guests.
Here are a few examples:
It’s now been a little over 48 hours since the launch of miistation.com, and the response has been … active! A few key news sites and portals picked up on this impulse project (big thank you to those who helped spread the word!), driving traffic and – to our surprise, customers! – to Make Mii. [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of errand runs to Akihabara lately for two clients, and after a few consecutive trips I’ve noticed two interesting trends in the hard-disk market. First, now that SATA and SATA-II are pretty well adopted in the desktop market, a “portable version” to rival USB and Firewire is picking up steam. [...]
It looks like Mixi’s popularity and IPO success has budding entrepreneurs going head-over-heels trying to snap up any remaining market. An invitation to Asoboo (which means “let’s play” in Japanese) just passed my inbox so I created an account and gave it a quick run. There’s a clear web2.0-y flavor to it, [...]
While in San Francisco a few weeks ago I decided to pick up the Nike+iPod kit built for runners. Purchasing the receiver (which connects to an iPod nano) and shoe-insert set also meant I needed to buy a compatible pair of running shoes – possibly the first time I’ve bought shoes to complement an [...]
via W. David, his take on a recent Pew Research Center report on happiness around the globe. For Japan, this includes a relative displacement on education value, low views on birth control, and pessimistic outlook for Japan’s future generations.
I wish they would print at least the geographic areas within Japan in which they conducted [...]
For future reference, when the Yamanote line stops, you can just show your JR pass and train attendants will let you in for free apparently.
via marxy.
Some good stuff happening this month.
Thanks Shu!
Wed 11/02 – Seb Fontaine @ Womb, Darren Emerson @ Yellow
Fri 11/04 – Dave Clarke @ Womb
Sat 11/05 – Darren Emerson @ Yellow
Fri 11/11 – Sasha @ Womb
Fri 11/18 – Sasha + James Zabelia @ Womb
Sat 11/19 Layo & Bushwaka @ Womb
Tues 11/22 – Armin Van Buuren @ Ageha, [...]
Me father was a-quoted!
What Horie represents is “an indication of changed values in Japan, one
that allows a wider range of acceptable behavior,” says Stephen
Romaine, a US executive in Tokyo with the Hudson Group, who has watched
Japan for 20 years. “Horie is like a friend or neighbor’s kid who made
good. Everyone knows who he is.”
Here’s the [...]
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Went out with a photo-nut colleague from work a few weekends ago to make use of our pricey image-capture toys aka digital SLRs, and while the weather wasn’t ideal there was definitely no shortage of material to shoot. Every few stations (at least!) throughout Tokyo you’re guaranteed to catch a large fluffy charicature promoting [...]
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