Posted in Uncategorized, tagged basketball, children, culture, Japan, olympics, sports, Tokyo, youth on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Partially utilizing the site of the Olympic Village constructed for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center (NYC) has been used as an education institution for youth under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology since 1965.
Located 10 minutes from Shinjuku, with both nature-rich Yoyogi [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan, Roppongi, Tokyo, China, game, Igo, Go, board, stones on October 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Go (碁) is a strategic board game for two players, more commonly known as Igo (囲碁) in Japan. On October 11, 2009, an Igo Festival was held in the Roppongi Hills Arena in Tokyo.
Go originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago.
In Japan, the game became popular at the Japanese [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2009, dance, festival, Fukuro, Ikebukuro, Japan, matsuri, Tokyo, Yosakoi on October 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Fukuro Matsuri (festival)was held on the shopping streets near the west exit of JR Ikebukuro Station, Tokyo on October 10-11, 2009.
This is Ikebukuro’s biggest festival and attracts more than 200,000 people from all over the world.
This festival was started in 1968, sponsored by the Ikebukuro Trade Association with the main aim [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged earth, green, Roppongi, Tokyo, festival, movies, films, carpet, ecology, Hollywood, Hatoyama, posters on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 22th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is being held in Roppongi Hills from October 17-25, 2009. This year’s theme is the same as last year, with the focus on the environment and ecology – “Action for Earth”.
The festival opened Saturday, October 17, 2008 in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. The newly elected Japan Prime Minister [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged backpack, Japan, phone, power, Sharp, Shinjuku, solar, sun, Tokyo on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Went shopping last weekend at Shinjuku and saw this solar powered backpack and laptop bag in one of the displays at Tokyu Hands (a popular department store chain in Japan). Isn’t this cool or what?
In related news, the first solar powered cellular phone made by Sharp became available in Japan earlier this summer. It is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3M, CEATEC, convention, electronics, exhibition, Hitachi, Japan, Kyocera, Panasonic, Sharp, sony, TDK, technology, Tokyo, Toshiba on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) Japan is a leading IT and electronics trade show and exhibition held annually in Tokyo.
This year, it was held from October 6-10, 2009 in the Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba (just outside Tokyo).
Entrance fee at the door is 1,000 yen, but you can pre-register online for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Air Canada, Canada, subway, Tokyo, Toronto, tourism on October 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday’s blog post was about a Canadian ad which I spied on a subway train. Today, I saw this ad on a subway platform.
This is a very nice picture of the Toronto skyline showing Lake Ontario with the distinctive CN Tower and the Rogers Skydome. It looks like it is sponsored by Air Canada. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Canada, embassy, fair, Japan, student, subway, Tokyo on October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On my way home while riding the Tokyo subway yesterday, this ad, with its distinctive red maple leaf flags, stood out so I took a picture with my cell phone camera.
Looks like the Canadian Embassy in Japan is holding an international exchange student fair. Visit the web site at http://www.canadanet.or.jp/m/ for more details. Have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged convention, games, Japan, sony, Tokyo, YouTube, otaku, Playstation, Microsoft, xbox360, Konami, Sega, Koei on October 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The 19th annual Tokyo Game Show was held in Makuhari Messe Convention Center in Chiba (just outside Tokyo) from September 24-27, 2009. For last year’s coverage, see my blog post here.
Total attendance was about 185,000, down from 194,000 last year.
The major game platform developers were prominent with large booths like Sony [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Japan, Melor, rain, Tokyo, typhoon, weather on October 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
It has been raining all week in Tokyo in advance of Super Typhoon Melor, which is heading to Japan after storms wreaked devastation in the Philippines, Taiwan and other neighboring islands.
Melor is packing gusts of up to 252 kilometers (156 miles) per hour.
Melor is scheduled to hit Tokyo on Thursday. Run for the [...]
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