Color Switcher
My websites
A bilingual websites dedicated to bring you the information on Major League Baseball players from Japan.
Japanese language blog about Boston Red Sox.
My work as graphic designer/web designer.
Personal blog that I've been keeping since 2002.
I like to eat. And taking photo of it.
Category Archives: Culture, News and Politics
Translating Japanese (or any other language, for that matter) is hard.
Whoa. I thought, by translating Daisuke Matsuzaka interview on the Magazine Friday, I was passing on a good news (Matsuzaka admits his wrong doing last year and will come back in 2010 with something to prove). But it turns out that it was first time the club lerned about the injury (yikes), and he may [...]
Also posted in Asian Issues, Baseball, Softball, and Judo 1 Comment
Blog Rally to help the Globe
CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Paul Levy started this on his blog, in response to the news surrounding possible close down of the Boston Globe, (and lots more updates here, here, and here and many others). A number of Boston-based bloggers who care about the continued existence of the Globe have [...]
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Seeing US election in Japanese bookstore
I am now reading my favorite author, Haruki Murakami’s “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” in English language. The translation is very good, and it is always fascinating to think about how publisher’s decide which Japanese book to be published in US, and which US books to go to Japan. I did a very quick search on [...]
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Japan-Jewish connection?
This is just too absolutely interesting… and too strange! From oniazuma blog’s Are the Japanese actually Jewish?. (Update) If you can’t see the video below, they are also on the YouTube in three parts. Part 1/3, Part 2/3, and Part 3/3. Nippon TV’s “Mino Monta’s Japanese Mystery” show had this very interesting (aside from the [...]
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No Performance Service Plan for me.. and Dr. Rob
I got a little complain about Best Buy… I bought a digital camera last summer, a Panasonic DMC-LZ5 a decent camera, good zoom (6x optical), OK price… $230 at the time. I also got a 4 year “Performance Service Plan” for $60. At last Red Sox game I went to, I accidentally dropped it, and [...]
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Japanese link in Boston
Who knew. In today’s Boston Globe’s Living Arts section, there is a really nice article about 26-years-old Japanese street art/graffiti artist, Kenji Nakayama. You can also hear him and see his work on the boston.com slideshow. Seems like a interesting guy and really cool art. There are lots of talented Japanese/Japanese American in this area. [...]
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Expo Aichi 2005 ends
Expo Aichi — Photo by Daigo. Expo Aichi has ended Sunday. As you can see on the left, we were there this July and that’s me and Jonathan with Morizo and Kiccoro. There was a really interesting story called “Japanese queue – gladly – for a 35-foot platypus and falafel” in the Monitor. The story [...]
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In Japan and some thoughts
I am in Japan. A place I grew up, and using my dad’s Japanese iMac (which I helped him pick it up when I was here 5 years ago… keys are placed differently, takes me a while to find quotation mark, apostrophe, @ sign and control key each time…) to make this post. I am [...]
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Great read: Pandas and Lobsters