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Japanese Amulets
Japanese amulets (charms, talisman, omamori, ofuda, gofu etc) are carried or displayed about ones person which either bring good fortune, ward off bad luck or evil spirits or protect us from...
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Miko
Miko [巫女[みこ]] are young female attendants who can be found at Shinto shrines performing ceremonies and other odd jobs such as staffing the shrine shop. At the beginning of the year, selected girls from...
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Oshogatsu
Oshogatsu [お正月[おしょうがつ]] is the word meaning "new year." Currently 4 days into 2012. How has your new years been so far? After about half a year of Culture Japan Season 2 production, I've always said...
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Otaku Room - Before and After
If there is anything I love more than looking at photos of otaku rooms - it has to be looking at "before and after" photos of otaku rooms. Today we look at the room of Mim from Australia. This is what...
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Nendoroid Collection
Member Mim from Australia decided to pile up their collection of Nendoroids (as one does) and took a few photos for us. Mim actually done this before the bedroom got renovated. I'm not even sure how...
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Mirai Suenaga Wallpapers
The second season of Culture Japan has just finished its run in Japan and is about to start its global broadcast in America and Asia. At the end of each episode we show an end card featuring the...
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Ultimate Otaku Room
The ultimate otaku room? Dakimakura, wall scrolls, retro gaming machines, custom figures, eroge, doujinshi, Dr Pepper, dedicated Tohou machine and more! This place looks more like a shop or museum!...
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Nengajo
In Japan, on the 1st of January, a ton of postcards usually arrive called Nengajo [年賀状[ねんがじょう]]. Nengajo are new year greeting cards that families and business partners send to each other. Today we...
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Taiwan Meetup Details for 2012/01/14
I will be in Taiwan for a business trip next week and would love to have a meetup! Have no idea how many will come along but if enough come then we will close off the Good Smile Tetsujin cafe - if only...
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Harajuku Fashion
Many moons ago I used to work in the fashion industry. During that time, I discovered anime, manga and Japan and decided that I wanted to live and work in the land of the rising sun. I left the fashion...
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Tokyo Teh Tarik
I love Teh Tarik so much that I've opened a Teh Tarik cafe in Tokyo and here are my supplies ^^ Thanks to Maurice who brought all of this over from Singapore. The cafe is located in Musashikoyama Tokyo...
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Seijin Shiki
Yesterday was a public holiday known as "Seijin no Hi" [成人の日[せいじんのひ]] or "Coming of age day" where those who have turned 20 are declared adults meaning they can now do SDV (Smoke, Drink and Vote). In...
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Holy Angel Kamineko
This lovely figure of Kuroneko as "Holy Angel Kamineko" by Max factory is now up for pre-order! She's 1/7 scale, due out this May and will retail for 8,800 yen.Pre-order info should be up at the usual...
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Organizing Your Workspace
One of the things I constantly think about is how to become more efficient at managing my time. I've got a note to write about Time Management in a separate post but today I'm going to talk about a few...
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Malaysia Cosplay
Photos of the incredible cosplay quality that could be found at Comic Fiesta 2011. Thanks to Shane for letting me share these here and on Flickr. Originally posted over at figure.fm.Oh, and if you was...
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Japan Wireless Router
Had been using our Buffalo wireless router for a while now. Since then a load of new wireless standards came out which provide higher networking speeds. As the wireless speed of the old router was...
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Office Cable Management
Continuing from the Organizing Your Workspace post, today I try to reduce and clean up those horrid cables under the table. Its always been like this down there and I only just recently managed to...
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Bushiroad New Office Tour
Trading card game company Bushiroad moved office recently to accomodate expansion of the company. You have seen their previous offices and today we take a lookie at the new ones.On the way to the...
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Akemi Homura Figma
Akemi Homura figma - gorgeous figure to have around on the desk but probably even more gorgeous if she was on your desk. Thats right folks - tis time for another giveaway! Today I'd like to thank folks...
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CJ Night Taiwan 2012 Winter
Was in Taiwan for a wee bit last week. T'was our first time over there and had a great time. I always knew that anime culture was a big thing in Taiwan but didn't know how big it was until I saw it...
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