Category Archives: Others

Weapon-like Anchor Block

Let me introduce a Japanese entertainment website that I check often. One day, a picture of a unique construction product was introduced in the website.     The blogger saw…

8 Things that Chinese Surprised about Waste Disposal in Japan

We can’t live without making any waste. We separate and take out trash on the day a garbage truck comes. It is probably the same in your country.    …

Names of Tokyo 23 Wards Are Not so Cool in English

    How do they sound if the names of Tokyo 23 wards are translated in English? After reading “Names of Japan’s Prefectures Are Cool in English,” I wondered so….

Japanese New Year’s Greeting Card – Nengajo –

Sending greeting cards for the Christmas season and the upcoming new year is common in many countries. Also in Japan, we have a traditional custom to send season’s greeting cards…

Laputan-like cloud!?

  I found a video of a mysterious cloud when I was searching videos on the net. The video was taken in Hokkaido, Japan, in the middle of August, 2010….

Looking back on 2010 and foreseeing 2011 of Japan Style

Today is the last day of the year 2010. How did 2010 treat you? For me, it was just like the saying: “Time and tide stay for no man.” 2010…

Ninjas Crawling up an Advertising Display!?

Let me introduce you a post of a blog that I always check.     This is an advertising display on a building near Sumidagawa, Tokyo. It is an ad…

Shitamachi Museum Takes You Back to 1920 Japan

Shitamachi is the traditional shopping, entertainment and residential districts of Tokyo. A hundred year ago, the area still had the taste of good old days of Edo period (1603 to…

Reminder Device – Close Your Zipper!

Excuse me, your zipper is open. (^^;   Have you ever forgotten to close your zipper? (YES, I have^^) It is really embarassing, and you may wish you had a…

Maid Cosplay Café Train Ran Tokyo and Saitama

Maid café is a cosplay restaurant where waitresses dressed in maid costumes and treat customers as masters and mistresses. It is not too much to say that “maid café” became…

B-LABO: Love Portion!?

– What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –   The product I would like to introduce from B-LABO today is not Japanese, but a gift from Korea to Bungu-o.   A gift?…

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