The Most Expensive Toy in Japan – $41,468

Saw this on Rising Sun of Nihon and just had to post it. And you thought the Play Station 3 was overpriced. How about a “

Installing Japanese and other East Asian Language support on your PC

Well I hope to start making more posts involving lots of Japanese characters and I want my visitors to be able to view the tex

My Celebrity Look-alikes

Well been getting messages from friends showing me their My Celebrity Look-alikes and I have also been seeing this on quite a

Toko Komura – Japanese Salvation Army School Teacher in Kingston

Toko Komura is from Kanagwa (Chigasaki) near Tokyo in Japan. Trained in tutoring the blind, she now teaches swimming and physi

Japan, China relationship getting better

I rarely will ever blog about politics, war, international disputes, crimes and such topics, but I think I will blog about the

Tired of being on leave and Japanese class woes

Yes it’s official, I’m a little over half way way through my two month leave from work and I am now officially tir

Kitano Tsunetomi

A very good friend of mine who I met through this site and fellow Japan, Anime, Gaming enthusiast has introduced me and will c

Japan Earthquakes rock Pacific nations

An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 has struck off the west coast of Japan’s largest island, Honshu. Initial reports say at l

Interesting sites and blogs entry 2

Its been three months time to drop another batch of interesting sites and blogs upon you again. Japanese Lesson One of the bes

10 Days I want to forget…quickly

The last week and a half has been quite the roller coaster ride for me. My computer at home died not once but twice in less th

Japan’s Empire of Cool

Ran into this interesting article written way back in December 2003 for the Washington Post. I thought I’d share it with

One year of blogging ^^

It seems like it was just last month I started this blog, time really seems to be flying and while checking the January visito

Two words that describe me – Japanophile and Otaku

Anime, video games and technology are some of my main interests and that naturally led me to become interested in Japan becaus

Yokoso! Japan Weeks January 20 – February 28 2007 – includes free tour of Akihabara

The period from January 20 through February 28, 2007 is designated as Yokoso! Japan Weeks. A variety of unique events will be

Good friend —-> Car Crash —> Hospital —> Missed first class of 2007

A long time friend of mine met in a really bad car accident yesterday morning but thankfully he is alive and suffered only a b

Japanese emperor Akihito celebrates grandson’s birth

Japanese Emperor Akihito celebrated the September birth of his grandson, the imperial family’s first male heir in four d

Interesting sites and blogs entry 1

I browse the internet a whole lot and there are many sites that i favour and find interesting. I will begin to feature interes

Ate too much but Christmas 2006 was great!

This year’s Christmas has been one of the better ones for me in awhile and as I lay in bed feeling sick while the last f

Seasons Greetings

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone who has been visiting this blog for the past few months a merry Chris

I saw Tomoko Sensei Today!…received a bag of goodies and failing grades

Which do I talk about in the post first…I wonder…lets start with the goodies! While idling at work today I remembe

Japan’s prince makes first trip – Dedication Rite

Two-month-old Prince Hisahito, Emperor Akihito’s first grandson, was taken Tuesday to the Kashikodokoro (Place of Awe),

Tsunami warning in Japan, Russia after major quake

TOKYO (Reuters) – A tsunami warning was issued for northern Japan and Russia’s northeastern coast after a major qu

This Year’s JET Seminar has come and gone

As I have been saying for a while last Monday evening there was a little meeting to discuss the JET program at the private sch

JET program representatives arriving at school next Monday

Time flies when you have a busy life like me. It seems like half a year ago when Tomoko sensei told us that 3-5 Japan Exchange