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Japan Drivers License
A word of advice - even though your drivers license doesn't need renewing for another few years, mark your calendar as you may forget like I did. Wanted to take the car out one day and realized that it...
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Hong Kong Food & Meetup Details
Hope you don't mind but am going to mix a food and meetup details together in the same post ^^; I'll be traveling to Hong Kong next week with Bushiroad to cover the Chara Hobby C3 event that will take...
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Culture Japan Season 1 Digest
Uploaded a 1 hour digest of Culture Japan season 1 but completely forgot about it ^^; Its actually an hour and 11 mins - below for folks who have time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMvmS5GZPB4 Folks...
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Japan Unmanned Shops
At Ikaho hot springs in Gunma, there is a shrine called Ikaho Jinja [伊香保神社] at the top of the Ishidan steps. We went on a weekday so not many other folks around. Felt like I stepped back in time.Beside...
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Miku Append
Up for pre-order now is Hatsune Miku Append Ver which is also the 100th figma. She comes with a few facial expressions which all look fab. Shes due out this August and will retail for 3,000 yen. More...
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C3 Hong Kong
Day 1 in Hong Kong. This time I'm over here working with Bushiroad on this n that and also doing some Culture Japan promotional work with Animax Asia. TCG (Trading Card Game) and recently anime...
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Japan Earthquake
A huge earthquake hit Japan this afternoon. I've got a headache thinking about the safety of my friends. To be honest I would rather be back in Japan at a time like this - my own safety is the last...
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Post Earthquake Tokyo - Transport
Just arrived back in Tokyo. Right up until we got on the plane, had to deal with a barrage of calls from parents/relatives asking us not to go back to Japan. They talk as if everybody in Japan is going...
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Post Earthquake Tokyo - Food & Supplies
After the earthquake, I heard that food supplies were getting dangerously low in Tokyo. The possibility of a mag 7 Earthquake to hit Tokyo is still 40% (reduced from 70%). Many people are worried and...
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Post Earthquake Tokyo - Damage
Continuing the earthquake coverage which is all being tagged "earthquake201103." I knew from speaking to folks like Steve Nagata in Tokyo that the place was going to be a mess when we got back to...
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Post Earthquake Tokyo - Akihabara
Photos taken last night in Akihabara - 6 days after the magnitude 9 Earthquake hit East Japan. There were less folks out n about but that was mainly due to all the shops trying their best to save...
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Tokyo Evacuation?
Media around the world continues to go on about how everybody is leaving Tokyo and that its a ghost town. These photos were taken a few hours a go in one of the busiest shopping/restaurant districts in...
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Foreign Media Reporting
Update : Thanks for all the feedback about how the situation is being reported in your neck of the woods. Here are a collection of just some of it.While there are some folks leaving Tokyo (who mostly...
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C3HK
While all my Japanese comrade bloggers like Foo Bar Baz, Akiba Hobby, Cut A News and more are getting back into to the rhythm of a normal blogging schedule, I'm as always late.Today we are going to...
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Otaku Room Earthquake
Owners of these otaku rooms got off lightly compared to Northern Japan after the earthquake. I don't think anybody is complaining about the damage to their rooms and neither am I. It is said that the...
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Milky Holmes Hong Kong
Was in Hong Kong earlier this month for C3HK traveling with Bushiroad and the Milky Holmes girls. Schedule was tight but managed to get a few hours to look around town for a bit. Mmmmm. Better try not...
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Hatsune Miku Charity
Apart from donating 10,000,000 yen to the relief efforts up North, Good Smile Company have come up with a Hatsune Miku cheerleeder version [応援Ver] - she costs 3,000 yen and for each order, Good Smile...
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Japan Papercraft
We previously took a look at some of Plus Kareha's work but this time he's outdone himself with this fantastic Aegis - 95% of which is made completely out of paper - fully poseable and comes with a...
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Supplies Shortage Tokyo
About a week ago, shelves in supermarkets across Tokyo were looking pretty much like this - nekkid. One of the reasons brought up in the foreign press was that many folks were hoarding by buying up as...
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A Week in Tokyo 64
Its been 2 weeks since the Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake hit Japan and today we'll take a look at whats been happening in Tokyo since then. First photo taken in a small street near our station - we've got a...
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