Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan Tokyo Obama Emperor bow YouTube on November 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Japan was the first destination in US President Barack Obama’s Asian visit. At the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, he met with the Japanese Emperor (and Empress) who he greeted with a handshake and a low bow. Picture below courtesy of Reuters.
Also see this very short SkyNews video from YouTube (which has over 150,000 views [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan Kitkat kinako ohagi snack chocolate on November 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I tried the new Pepsi Azuki and the Ginger Ale KitKat. You won’t find Pepsi Azuki in store shelves any longer, but Ginger Ale KitKat is still available. I also found a Kinaho Ohagi KitKat (I think the last one?) at a local konbini (convenience store) which I believe was first [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan Japanese language Tokyo lights blog work salaryman on November 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
This week marks my 2nd year working in Japan. Last year, I posted my updated impressions of the working environment in this blog, as an follow-up to my initial impressions.
Today a year later, I really have nothing new to add. I guess I am more comfortable in the working environment here, I feel like a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tokyo Japan Odaiba Yosakoi festival matsuri dance naruko team on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The annual Dream Yosakoi Festival was held from October 31 to November 1, 2009 at various locations in Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan.
Over 4,000 dancers performed in this traditional team dance with teams as large as 100.
This style of choreographed dance is highly energetic, combining traditional Japanese dance movements with modern [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan Tokyo Kawasaki halloween parade costumes 2009 contest on November 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Last weekend, the annual Kawasaki Halloween Parade was held on a sunny and warm Saturday (October 31) afternoon near Tokyo with over 3,000 costumed participants and many more spectators.
The main festivities, including the start and end of the parade, was located in La Cittadella, a European style shopping center. Did I mention it was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan Tokyo Kyoto video YouTube cruise 2009 Canon Glidecam on November 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two recent high quality HD videos from YouTube by egawauemon featuring Tokyo and Kyoto filmed in 2009 using a Canon 5D Mk2 digital camera (EF 24mm F2.8 lens) with a Glidecam HD-2000 for hand-held camera stabilization.
Both videos are 10 minutes long, shot during different times of the day (morning, afternoon and evening), with no music [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tokyo Japan subway train makeup poster manners on November 3, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Every month, Tokyo Metro posts a new subway manner poster in their station as I wrote about last year in a blog post titled Tokyo Subway Manner Posters. For some strange reason, I look forward to the first day of every month when the latest poster appears (yea, my life is boring). You can find [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan Tokyo matsuri festival park folk music lumbermen food rice citizen Koto food games children stage band on November 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Koto Kumin Matsuri (Koto Citizens’ Festival) was held at Kiba Park in Tokyo on October 17-18, 2009. It was a sunny and warm autumn weekend, a perfect day for a festival. This festival covered the entire Kiba Park, which is huge, with a river and bridge separating the north and south areas.
As typical [...]
