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Japanese

Eating Right, Excercise, and Japanese Sea Aliens: Keys to a Healthy Life in Japan

September 2, 2010

As my stress levels continue to rise from an unknown reason, I thought I’d jot down some ideas for how to live healthy in Japan. Not really, I’m just sharing some more pictures of Japanese stuff, because it’s interesting Above alien thing is on the shelf at one of my favorite restaurants. Unfortunately, it’s not [...]

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Ice Cream Caps, Razor Blades, and Scary Japanese Gum

August 25, 2010

With a headline like that, you must think I am a perfectly healthy, sane person. Nah, I just wanted to post on a bunch of random things and thoughts in Japan I’ve come across. Like the Ice Cream Cap above.

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Trashy Novels, Buddha’s Boogers, and Japanese Fireworks

August 22, 2010

While most of this article is focusing on how Japan is incredibly beautiful even when it’s not trying to be, I can’t help but share my latest reading habits, like above. Totally trashy novels. Yeah, that book is about hot chicks, Zombies, and chainsaws. You really can’t beat that. When I thought about it really [...]

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It’s not that I like hospitals… but I wish they stayed open…

August 19, 2010

It’s not that I like hospitals… nor ambulances, but I went to one, by one, last night. When I called for an ambulance, the lady on the phone was kinda nasty (my fault, I switched to English as I was in a panic… big mistake, her English was way worse than my Japanese), the ambulance [...]

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Street Fighter II Keychain Allows Playing with Sound Only

June 15, 2010

This item recently popped up in Japan. It’s called Imagination Sound Game from Bandai. There’s a line of a few old arcade games including three versions of Street Fighter II (with different characters to choose from). Watch the video for an idea of how it works. This game comes with Ryu, Blanka, and Sagat. Playing [...]

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Fun Japan Pics, Random Thoughts

June 9, 2010

I’m in a weird funk lately. I think my mojo was injured at some point and I’m still working on getting it back. In Japan they have a saying that　もう一回, literally, 1 more time. Apparently in means that three bad things will happen in a row.

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Turning 31, A bit of Perspective, A Year in Blogging, insert Zen Here

May 31, 2010

That’s right, I’m officially the age of the name of a famous ice cream franchise. And to keep from getting sued, or worse, chastised by the blog police, a story is in order about 31: You see, in Japan (and pretty much everywhere outside the US) Baskin Robbins is called 31 Flavors. And it’s an [...]

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Voice Over Work Samples for Bread

May 16, 2010

This has nothing to do with Arvale. Well, not directly You see, I am working on the next Episode of Arvale. However, I am currently not working at a formal job. And… a man has to eat. A man has to pay for other development costs too (like art). In any case, Japan has surprisingly [...]

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Teddy Bear Rocking out with Headphones

May 12, 2010

Sometimes a video is all you need. This is currently on the shelves of many department stores in Japan. I thought it was cute and silly enough to take a video of with my phone. Enjoy.

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Golden Week Begins

April 28, 2010

Golden Week starts in Japan today. Golden week is a succession of 4 completely arbitrary (like greenery day) national holidays mostly in a row. Today is the past Emperor’s birthday (or optionally showa day, or greenery day), which means a national holiday, which means everyone will take a holiday tomorrow; which combined with the weekend [...]

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