'Japan' Category
Zen and Madness
by James in Japan on February 15th, 2009
At work I’ve been doing a lot more web work. Well, not really a lot more, but rather nothing but web work. Initially I was disappointed, but it has forced me to finally learn CSS and web design properly, instead of relying on friends all the time. Skill-set expansion is a good thing™.
I am very [...]
千倉 Chikura Trip II
by James in Japan, Travel on February 1st, 2009
This video is incredibly late and was taken about a month ago when I went to Chikura to visit a friend and his family after new years. It is my second time out there. To read about my first time click here.
The video is the same location that I took one of my favourite photographs [...]
I’ve become Salaryman
by James in Japan, Travel on January 10th, 2009
It’s been forever since I’ve posted on lomohut, this is my first time since being back in Japan.
As more than one person has told me, I’ve accomplished what I set out to do. I’ve graduate, and gotten a job in Japan, that’s not teaching english! Moreover, I started just over 2 weeks from my [...]
Reverse Culture Shock II
by James in General, Japan on August 12th, 2008
Why must 200 people all go the same direction to more or less the same place via separate vehicles without any form of public transit? It made no sense before and makes even less now.
Everywhere I look in society I see madness. I see 4 dollar a gallon petrol prices yet people still drive [...]
Packing…
by James in General, Japan on July 21st, 2008
It’s been quiet on lomohut this second semester. The semester flew by much faster than I had anticipated. I’ve started packing my stuff as my room is getting inspected on Thursday so it needs to be clean and such. I’ve got 10 days left.
When riding the trains (or at least the JR variety) they [...]
Blast from the Past
by James in Japan, Travel on June 28th, 2008
As technologically advanced and high tech of an image Japan might have with the rest of the world I think that in many cases it is quite the opposite. Today’s adventures in Shinjuku was a case of just that.
Shinjuku station is huge. It is the busiest station in Japan, perhaps even in the world. [...]
新宿御苑、エコ教育みたい、Shinjuku Imperial Garden、Eco Education
by James in Environment, General, Japan, Travel on May 3rd, 2008
Tuesday marked the first day of golden week, a period in Japan where there are a bunch of national holidays back to back in which most people get a good solid 5 days off from work. It’s like a national spring break.
Most people travel around Japan and it is one of Japan’s big travel [...]
Happy Earth Day!
by James in Environment, General, Japan, Travel on April 20th, 2008
Happy Earth Day! I was going to write a large post on the environment for this post but going out into Shibuya/Yoyogi today completely drained me.
Today though in Yoyogi Park there was a huge Earth Day celebration. This year the theme was “Shift Green”. Unfortunately I arrived too late to see any of the [...]
久しぶり〜会わなかった人, Person who I haven’t seen in a long time
by James in General, Japan, Travel on April 18th, 2008
Last sunday I met somebody I haven’t seen in almost 2 years. My host sister Mai from Nagoya was in the area so we were able to catch up and have dinner in Sakuragicho.
We went to, I forget the name in Japanese, but it’s an old red brick warehouse that has been converted into [...]
過生ら祭り、川崎、Kanamara Festival Kawasaki, Penis Festival
by James in General, Japan, Travel on April 12th, 2008
This post has been sitting in a draft for almost a week as I tried to figure out what to write about. What was the major event. I decided there really wasn’t one major thing that stuck out in my head. It was rather just the photos. A photos is worth a thousand words so [...]
