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- Tokyo is back to normal
Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:49:52 +0000
As of yesterday evening, the omnipresent police have completely disappeared, put back into cryogenic storage, ground up into tasty hamburger meat or maybe they were never police to begin with, and they've been given back their tattered homeless rags. It's a good thing too. By the last day they were all looking pretty bored. I started [...] - Mainichi shuts down WaiWai
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:56:02 +0000
This is pretty old news by now, but I just found out about it. I don't spend much time surfing websites about Japan. When I still lived in the US, I hardly ever followed local news either. I've always been a Time/Newsweek/US News & World Report kinda guy. For years and years, the English language website [...] - Tokyo Lockdown
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:40:08 +0000
Twitter friends were right, the extra security is due to the G8 Summit in Hokkaido. It says so on these out-of-order garbage cans. Mystery solved. Tags: mobile - Something's up in Tokyo this morning
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:31:40 +0000
I noticed a policeman posted at the exit of the Ginza line in the Aoyama-ichome station this morning who's normally not there. He was watching people carefully and had his baton in his hand, in addition to the pistol strapped to his belt. Then when I passed by the garbage cans near the exit of [...] - Suicide in Japan
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:52:44 +0000
A few months ago when I was posting random tidbits of stuff from the Japanese news media to this blog, I came across an article about a group suicide that happened in a hotel less than an hour from where I live. Three people–two men and a woman–packed into a bathroom, sealed the door with [...] - A Family Update
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:15:57 +0000
Andy last week decided that he really wants a dog, and he wants to buy it with 50,000 to 100,000 yen of his own money, made 100-150 yen at a time by helping around the house. He has suddenly become the model son, helping out washing dishes, vacuuming, and housecleaning without being asked, but extorting [...] - This guy keeps writing me.
Mon, 19 May 2008 03:15:40 +0000
I came upon this article by accident. (I hope you don't mean that literally. -ed.) Don't you realize that although you did your civic duty, you also stopped the practiced skills of an art form. Chikan can indeed be considered an art form. Where else can one find throughout history that an entire culture has tolerated [...] - Four Day Weekend, Day 4
Tue, 06 May 2008 12:31:36 +0000
In the morning, Tony and Andy played together. In the afternoon, Tony had soccer practice and Andy played with his loudmouth friends. While watching him and his friends play together, it made me realize that Grand Theft Auto is the adult equivalent of smashing trucks together on the living room floor. Me, I scanned more photos [...] - Four Day Weekend, Day 2
Mon, 05 May 2008 13:22:40 +0000
On Saturday morning (day 1) I drove my wife to work so we could have the car to go to Navel Park. That was the plan, but when I got home I crawled back into bed and didn't wake up until the crack of 1pm. I felt refreshed, but guilty for shooting our plans for [...] - Four Day Weekend, Day 1
Sat, 03 May 2008 06:06:02 +0000
It turns out we have a four day weekend, not a three day one. Saturday was Constitution Memorial Day (kenpou kinen-bi), today is Childrens' Day (kodomo no hi), tomorrow is Greenery Day (midori no hi) and Tuesday is a freebie because two of the holidays were over the weekend. That freebie didn't show up on [...] - Our new washer/dryer
Thu, 01 May 2008 14:45:06 +0000
Previous Next Close Gaze at the splendor of [...] - Welcome back feed readers
Thu, 01 May 2008 04:09:53 +0000
I just realized my RSS feeds have been broken for probably a long, long time. I think they're fixed now. Sponsored By: Global Daigaku No tag for this post. - Holiday Photos
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:27:03 +0000
This week is Golden Week, when a slew of national holidays fall within days of each other and the entire country takes off work en masse. Unfortunately, this year next Saturday and Sunday are two of the four holidays, so the only days I have off are yesterday and next Monday. It's better than nothing, [...] - Photoshopping lousy pics into art
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:44:13 +0000
The original photos are here. Previous Next Close HDR, [...] - Weekend Photos
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:16:55 +0000
On Saturday while the boys were taking swimming lessons I spent around 45 minutes walking around the neighborhood in search of stuff to shoot with my new camera and lens. It's been so long since I've used anything other than a point-and-shoot camera that my eye for photos is not what it used to be. [...] - Musical Interlude
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Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:18:57 +0000
His cover of the Rolling Stone's Brown Sugar is pretty good too. An excerpt from his blog: Even though I'm a ukulele player I don't own a Hawaiian shirt. It's not like anybody made a rule that if you play the ukulele you have to wear one. I never wanted one so I've never bought one. But this [...] - 360 degree panoramic photography
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:37:03 +0000
When QTVR came out in the mid 90's I was really into it. I took many cylindrical panoramas in my free time and also for clients of the web development company I worked for at the time. The technology has changed only a little since then, but the big advancement is that it's now possible [...] - First Pics!
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:24:25 +0000
With the money I just received from my parents for last Christmas (we're a pretty laid back bunch), I bought a Canon EOS Kiss Digital X camera, also known in other countries as the EOS Digital Rebel XTi or the EOS 400D. It's the most popular model among users of Flickr.com, so choosing it over [...] - Sold out everywhere
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:40:10 +0000
Every store in Shinjuku & Akihabara is sold out of Bimoji Training. Tags: geek stuff, mobile, Nintendo DS - Bimoji Training for Nintendo DS
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:43:36 +0000
Finally a new "game" has come out for the Nintendo DS that will make me start using it again. Last night I was surfing the Nintendo channel of our Wii while putting off going to bed and came across an advertisement for ?????????, a program that helps you improve your handwriting in Japanese. I downloaded [...] - Japanese Only (0mb)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:20:39 +0000
A link to this video showed up on BoingBoing today. In the 18 years I've lived here, the only establishment I've seen that refused foreigners and wasn't a shady pub or run-down love hotel in a neighborhood full of foreign prostitutes or massage parlor-type place was a pachinko parlor on the outskirts of my hometown. [...] - Online stalk everyone with Spokeo
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:27:18 +0000
Spokeo is an amazing website/online app thingie that imports your contact lists from your email, webmail and social network accounts and creates a comprehensive list of what everyone you've ever been in contact with is up to. My God, for a quiet, lonely hermit, my life is quite an open book online. Sponsored By: Global [...] - Stickers
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:30:07 +0000
Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: moblog, photo, shibuya - Spoils from Costco raid
Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:40:13 +0000
The only good thing that comes to mind about living a spartan life limited to home, commuting and work is that it doesn't take much at all to make me happy. Sponsored By: Jobs In Japan Tags: food, mobile, photo - Bad Words
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:48:31 +0000
Last weekend, like most weekends, Tony sat in my lap while playing Counter Strike on my PC. This is our bonding time. I use it to teach him new words and phrases in English, and when he play CS he seems to think in English more than usual. I asked him, "Do you know any bad [...] - Squid Ink Spaghetti
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:20:06 +0000
It smells like a bonfire made from burning tires on a New Jersey beach at low tide on a hot summer day. Guess which family resturant. Easy question for anyone who's lived in Japan. Tags: food, mobile, photo - Chain mail causes headache for Japan Red Cross, Tokyo Hospital
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:44:12 +0000
There's a chain mail message making the rounds in Japan claiming that a three year old girl with leukemia at the Showa University Hospital in Tokyo can't receive a life-saving operation because there isn't enough type B rh negative blood. Both the Japan Red Cross and the hospital have been receiving so many calls that [...] - Obama' Secret Service Detail Deserves the Axe
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:31:32 +0000
Somebody better get fired over this. In happened in of all places, Dallas. Doors opened to the public at 10 a.m., and for the first hour security officers scanned each person who came in and checked their belongings in a process that kept movement of the long lines at a crawl. Then, about 11 a.m., an [...] - US Marines in Okinawa still at it
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:13:01 +0000
This is getting ridiculous. The first incident was intolerable, what are we up to now, four in the past month? Details are sketchy, but a Philippine woman living in Okinawa claims that she was attacked by two US marines in a hotel on the night of the 17th. Police are investigating, and the two marines have [...] - How many kanji do you need to know?
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:45:48 +0000
There are a number of official lists of kanji. I'm not an expert by any means, I'm just going by information gleamed off the net. ????(kyouiku kanji): The 1oo6 characters students must learn by grade 6. Essentially, knowing these characters is a good start, but you're far from finished. ????(touyou kanji): A list of 1850 characters [...] - Free Tickets!
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:24:17 +0000
Garrett from Trans Pacific Radio wants me to post this. (You owe me a beer.) Black Stripe Theater, a team of independent artists, performers and technicians based in Tokyo, will be performing David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross (in English) from Friday Feb. 22 through Sunday Feb. 24 at Theatre Iwato in [...] - Another US marine in Okinawa arrested
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:55:36 +0000
As if relations weren't bad enough already between the US military and the citizens of Okinawa, a 54 year old resident of Nagoshi City found Corporal John Cody Jake passed out drunk on her sofa at 4 am this morning and called the police. They're not sure how he got into her house, but after [...] - Pinhead posts death threat for LOLs, gets arrested
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:02:45 +0000
I don't know how many people are familiar with popular websites in Japan, but 2ch is the most widely used online forum. The interface is absolute crap, but that's par for the course when it comes to Japanese websites. Check out the Wikipedia article for more info. It's pretty interesting, especially the story about Densha [...] - Guy hoping to die hits taxi driver with hammer
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:15:57 +0000
Early this morning a 31 year old unemployed man sneaked up behind a 41 year old taxi driver taking a wizz in a public toilet at a shrine in Shinjuku and whacked him in the head a few times with a hammer. Two guys passing by heard the driver's screams and held the attacker until [...] - Drunk guy falls off Yokohama Bay Bridge
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:41:55 +0000
A 40-something year old guy riding in a taxi last night told the driver he was going to be sick and had to get out of the car while they were driving over Yokohama Bay bridge. He fell off. Authorities don't know who he was and haven't recovered a body. Link Tags: drunk, News, stupidity, Yokohama - It's random news week!
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:37:46 +0000
The reason I haven't been updating this here blog so often lately is because I'm spending all my free time reading and trying to learn as much Japanese as anyone who's lived here as long as I have ought to know already. I've been here nearly half my life, I just turned 40 and my [...] - Kanji Box
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:53:21 +0000
If you're a Facebook user and are learning Japanese, give the Kanji Box app a whirl. And no cheating by using Perapera-kun or Rikai-chan at the same time. Sponsored By: Global Daigaku Tags: Facebook, geek stuff, Japanese, kanji - Tony & Andy's favorite YouTube video (0mb)
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:46:59 +0000
I can still remember when Tony was a baby who only knew how to drool, eat, sleep and poop his diaper. Now he surfs the web all by himself. He even knows how to switch the keyboard to Japanese input mode and type out words in romaji. I have no idea how or when he [...] - Okinawa is mighty pissed off
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:37:51 +0000
This week's news about a 38 year old US marine stationed in Okinawa abducting and raping a junior high school girl has overtaken the headlines from last week's frenzy about gyoza ("Dumplings." I hate that word.) imported from China that were contaminated with insecticide. In a nutshell, Okinawa wants the US military off their land [...] - I don't understand America
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:51:59 +0000
I can't understand why McCain and Hillary are leading in national polls. McCain thinks invading Iraq was the right thing to do, it's going well and we should stay there for the next 100 years? I hardly ever hear anyone agree with that, but then again I don't watch Fox News. Who's supporting him and [...] - A post from my Japanese blog
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:02:50 +0000
And no, I won't tell you where it is. It's super-secret. Every time I see a woman doing her makeup on the train, I wish I could pull a battery-operated shaver out of my pocket and do my face. That's an old joke, isn't it. But today I really did forget to shave. It got laughs. I wonder [...] - Thank God! Huckabee is broke
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:50:34 +0000
"The money simply hasn't come in at the rate that we expected," says the aide. "Florida is a $7 million commitment that we can't meet, and if we did, that leaves us exposed for Super Tuesday, where we have a lot of states and a lot media buys. We had to make tough decisions." Anybody who [...] - Vader Sessions (0mb)
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:02:43 +0000
I think this might be the funniest video I've seen on YouTube. Someone lovingly remixed a few scenes from the first Star Wars movie with audio snippets from other James Earl Jones movies. A lot of work must have gone into this, and the tie fighter scenes at the end are the best part. What's [...] - Happy National Hugging Day (Jan 21) (0mb)
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:09:44 +0000
By far, the best thing about having kids is the hugs. It more than makes up for the all the lights left on, the water pitchers and ice cube trays left empty, and the pee left on toilet seats. Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: cute, YouTube - Dolphins create and play with bubble rings (0mb)
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:05:29 +0000
This has to be seen to be believed. I wish the clip were an hour or two longer. Dolphin Play Bubble Rings Tags: cute, video - It's Happy Crap week!
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:52:16 +0000
This week, instead of continuing to be the silent, antisocial worker drone I've been of late, I'm going to (force myself to) post random crap that makes me happy. Most of it will have nothing at all to do with Japan, and I could care less. It's my blog, dammit, and I can post whatever [...] - Fetish Bar
Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:55:06 +0000
Every time I pass this sign, I can't help wondering what exactly a "fetish bar" is and what people do there. Can you order a Tom Collins with a stiletto-heeled kick in the nuts chaser? If you ask for a bottle of beer does the waitress ram it up your ass? Alas, I will never [...] - Monthly Bloggers' Meetup in Tokyo
Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:31:15 +0000
Still no news to report from me. I work, I go home, lather, rinse, repeat. Next month, I turn 40 years old. It's not fair. Not so long ago I was a teenager trying to grow a mustache in an attempt to look older. I can't figure out what I did that was so horrible [...] - And now for the big challenge
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:21:09 +0000
Thanks to a bout of nolo virus or salmonella or food poisoning I got from a plate of fried chicken about a week ago, I spent most of my winter vacation sleeping (and pooping), which provided the perfect opportunity to quit smoking for the 129th time. So right after I post this message, I, for the [...] - Sofa King We Todd Did.
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:35:52 +0000
Sofa King We Todd Did - Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: funny, video - An Open Invite
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:07:46 +0000
I'm turning into a workaholic hermit, it's been 47 days since I last did anything social, and I finally got paid today. Anyone in Tokyo up for drinks tomorrow night (Friday)? I wish I had something interesting or witty to say, but all I do these days is work, go home, tag base, then go to [...] - Alive In Baghdad Correspondent Killed
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:21:37 +0000
I guess I feel an affinity for the people who put out the Alive in Baghdad vlog because they go through the same steps I do–filming, editing, subtitling, uploading–only they're a lot better at it, and they have to dodge bullets and bombs, and deal with the loss of loved ones far too often. [...] - Maitri, mudita, karuna, and upeksanam (7mb)
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:04:30 +0000
The Buddhist definition of true love, which to me sounds a lot like true friendship. Maitri: Loving kindness; the ability to make someone happy. That "someone" can be: Yourself Someone you're very fond of Someone you have sympathy for (I forgot to mention that one) A neutral person An enemy; someone you perceive as the cause of your suffering Mudita: transformation of [...] - Crimes by foreigners on the rise in Japan
Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:51:00 +0000
It sounds like there's at least one policeman in Tokyo who wants to attribute as many crimes as possible to foreigners, according to a comment that was left on my blog a few days ago: …several years ago we spotted a ?Peeping Tom? on our balcony watching my wife undress (on the 13th floor!) She said [...] - Another post deleted.
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:41:48 +0000
I deleted the last podcast because the HFJ editorial staff (my mother) thought I gave out far too much personal information. And I gotta do what my mother says. It's an involuntary reaction. BTW, I won't be able to go to the video blogger event tomorrow night at the Pink Cow. My company is holding a [...] - I don't think they sell this car in Brazil
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:55:05 +0000
Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: funny, moblog, photo - Chumbucket alert
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:20:42 +0000
Last night I spent way too much time putting together a wee video clip from my archive of old and unlabeled tapes. I threw it in the chumbucket because it's more of a home video than something insightful about Japan. I don't want to put too much stuff like that in the main feed because [...] - Kevin "Tokyo" Cooney
Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:51:02 +0000
Why does every attention-whoring foreigner who stays more than a few months start calling himself "Tokyo" (yournamehere?) And why is it only guys? As far as I know, there's only ever been a "Tokyo Rose" but never a "Tokyo Beth" or "Tokyo Christina." If anyone ever calls me "Tokyo Rich" I will kick their ass. You've [...] - My Daily Commute (41mb)
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:25:54 +0000
(February 7, 2006, Part II.) Sponsored By: Global Daigaku Tags: commute, Tokyo, train, vlog - A Typical Morning (8mb)
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:09:37 +0000
(I'm going through all my old video tapes this weekend.) Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: family, vlog - Canned Oxygen (53mb)
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:00:50 +0000
As far as a 500 yen can of air goes, there's not a whole lot you can do with it that's interesting. But there you have it. Tags: family, Oxygen, Tony, vlog, Wii - Stephen Wiltshire draws Tokyo from memory (0mb)
Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:46:43 +0000
In 2005, Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic British artist, toured Tokyo by foot, bus and helicopter, then drew the entire city from memory. (Like Motoki, at age three he still wasn't talking.) You can see the entire panorama here. I watched the YouTube video with the volume off. From the comments it sounds like the voiceover is [...] - Tokyo event: Video Blogging Night and Sanyo Xacti Touch-and-Try
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:05:20 +0000
When Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 7 - 10pm Where The Pink Cow, Shibuya (www.thepinkcow.com) Language English Cost 2,000 yen (Includes light buffet and chance to win one of 2 Xacti digital video cameras) Andrew Shuttleworth, an Irishman who knows absolutely everyone in Tokyo (and I'm not exaggerating), is hosting this event in conjunction with Sanyo. Yukako "Tajee" Tajima, a bilingual video blogging major [...] - Tony Pwnzors Oliver (12mb)
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:20:33 +0000
Sponsored By: Jobs In Japan Tags: Oliver, Tony, vlog, Wii - The "This Japanese Life" episode update
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:08:01 +0000
Last Friday at the BlogNation Japan shindig, I recorded some interviews with a few of the attendees. As I held the microphone in front of them and listened through my headphones, I kept thinking, "Wow, how am I ever going to be able to chop this up and rearrange it into a coherent story?" [...] - A brief work situation update
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:32:50 +0000
In a nutshell, I think I'm OK. But just to be on the safe side, I'm going to get completely drunk tonight at the BlogNation Japan shindig tonight and repeatedly vomit in my backpack on the train ride home. (I'll be sure to wear my binaural mics.) P.S. Rockstar Mommy is a funny, funny blog written [...] - Motoki Log
Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:56:39 +0000
Motoki Log is the blog of a twentysomething gaikokujin mother of a 3 year old who was born prematurely. I feel like I'm invading her privacy by linking to her, but she's a very good writer and her son is absolutely adorable. She also has a photo blog. I'm still fighting back tears after reading her [...] - Thinking of doing a "This Japanese Life" kinda episode
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:51:28 +0000
Lately I've been feeling like I'm missing my true calling in life: sharing other peoples' stories with the rest of the world. (Either that or running a business that does house calls for peoples' home PC problems. I love helping friends tame their computers.) I like the formula This American Life has for putting shows together. [...] - Yes, I deleted a post.
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:26:03 +0000
Lately I've been thinking about "faith." We're surrounded by what we have faith in. I get out of bed every morning because I have faith that doing so is better than staying in bed. I use my toothbrush because I have faith that it'll clean my teeth. If I didn't have faith in it, I'd [...] - Well, at least I'm famous?
Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:11:55 +0000
Tonight Robert Sanzalone told me that he saw my name mentioned in a book about podcasting. I did an Amazon search and found two books: Page 267: Rich Pav is your average, ordinary blogger, making his way through the not-so-average or ordinary Land of the Rising Sun. In Herro Flom Japan (www.herroflomjapan.com), Rich frames his various travels [...] - The Japlish Podcast: Audio Promo (1mb)
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:50:47 +0000
Visit http://www.japlishpodcast.com Sponsored By: GD Language Programs Virtual Fair Tags: Japanese, Podcast - Funnelgirl beats goatse and tubgirl hands down
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:54:16 +0000
I'm torn between keeping this to myself or sharing it. But what the heck, it'll definitely increase my hits from Google. I just challenged myself to the new reigning champion of the absolute worst the Internet has to offer so you don't have to. DO NOT search for and watch this video. You have been [...] - People want to know: What does RichPav think of RonPaul?
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:49:13 +0000
Here's where you learn why I'm not on the 6:00 news as a political analyst. My expertise in politics is pretty shallow. I think the mainstream media is trying its best to ignore Ron Paul, but he and his "fans" as the MSM has decided to call his supporters, aren't making it easy. It looks to [...] - Pennsylvania Police Find Middle School Principal Naked, Watching Gay Porn In Office
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:42:45 +0000
This happened close to where I grew up. Police intended to arrest Nitschmann Middle School Principal John Acerra for allegedly selling crystal methamphetamine. When they discovered him naked in his office, they found a glass drug pipe and $200 in marked money on the desk. A confidential informant wearing a wire arranged to buy meth from [...] - Bush vs. Zombies (0mb)
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:40:58 +0000
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