More Pictures from Japan
More pictures I had in my camera. Enjoy!
So nice to be back in Japan. I get to eat really good Indo again! In our prefecture the best Indian food can be found at a restaurant called Mahatma New Dehli, but we managed to find a place that's actually better.
Shot of where the warehouse will be. That's our house in the background, which is both 40 years old and very new since we've been adding onto it and "reforming" it so much.
It'll be nice having space to expand our stock once again.
More pictures of cell phones from Japan, since I had to go to au to cancel my old phone. This is a line of Color Therapy phones.
Follow up to Casio's popular "toughened" phone, which was one of the few keitai phones sold in Japan that was also available in the U.S. I have *no* idea why some of these Japanese phone makers aren't even trying to bring their phones out in the U.S. as well. It's bizarre, maybe it's not profitable for them for some reason?
Reason #722 to love Japan. Just sitting at the onsen and there's a variety show on anime theme songs, featuring the guy who sang the original Yamato theme.
It's funny how much cred these old guys have in Japan. My wife will regularly point out an actor or singer and tell me what anime history they have. Like Masato Ibu, the voice actor for Desler/Desslock from Yamato, or Narumi Yasuda, the actress who got her start singing the "Kaze no Tani Nausicaa" song. And this from a woman who doesn't have an otaku bone in her body -- it's just part of the cultural background here.
posted by Peter in Japan at 10:33 AM
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Speaking of pictures from Japan, Google recently rolled out the Google Maps Street View for a few cities there. I wasted a good chunk of time driving around random streets.
12:20 PM
Actually, I believe the old law was that married couples had to have the same last name. It didn't have to be the husband's-- particularly if a venerable old family had only daughters, the man could take the woman's name. I knew a Fujiwara couple that did just that.
11:50 PM
The bikes being left outside the house caught my eye the most. Here in California, mine are inside the garage AND locked up. I forgot all about bikes being left all over with maybe just the wheel lock in Japan.
1:34 AM
great pics; thanks for shering!!
2:19 AM
John, yes, that's cool, to be able to see Akiba through Google is nice.
Emily, you are right, the man can take his wife's name, as my father in law in fact did.
Peterd, yes, we keep our bikes out there, not even locked. We're in a very small city of course, in rural Japan. But I doubt if anyone would come into our home area to steal our bicycles. Although, a nice car got stolen near our neighborhood, to be sold in Russia, or whatever. That was a surprise.
3:01 AM
Wow - didn't know Masato Ibu was in Yamato. I mostly know him from the Snakeman Show.
Cool photos - best of luck with getting the new warehouse sorted.
2:42 AM
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