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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 […]

This is just too absolutely interesting… and too strange!
Are the Japanese actually Jewish? Nippon TV’s “Mino Monta’s Japanese Mystery” show had this very interesting (aside from the sensationalism) theory that the “Japan’s roots may be in the lost Israeli clan and the lost ark of the Covenant, that once held the 10 Commandments, (of […]

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 […]

I know its minor thing, but this is bothering me… I’ve seen this Getty photo on many websites, even in mlb.com, sportsline.com and St. Petersburg Times, labeled as D-ray’s new third baseman Akinori Iwamura, taken at last spring’s World Baseball Classic tournament.
The problem is, It is not Iwamura. It is actually Chiba Lotte Marines’ third […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

First, disclaimer: I am not a tree-hugging environmental freak. But I thought the whole “CoolBiz” thing that Koizumi is pushing is quite interesting.
Japanese government’s Ministry of Environment even has this pretty nice website called “Team -6%“, where 6% reduction of “greenhouse gas” is Japan’s target number set by Kyoto Protocol. The Protocol is adopted by […]

My wife forwarded me this article in the Globe. Shake hands first, pupils urge sport’s biggest rivals by Douglas Belkin.
Fifth- and sixth-graders from Acton, MA is trying to get the Yankees and Red Sox to shake hands just before Fenway’s Opening Day game on April 11. It’s cute. I like it. I am “for” the […]

Nothing new, but when I need a good laugh… I go to My new fighting technique is unstoppable. Also check out My new FILING technique is unstoppable and Get Your War On. Just having fun fun fun with clip art.
Speaking of having fun with clip art. I miss Friend Bear!. It was the best and […]