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Ok, so a lot I want to write about, but I want to timebox this to 10 minutes of typing. Lets see how it goes.
This past Thursday Ayako and I met one of her previous bosses, and senpai, Craig-san. Craig-san is an American, but he grew up in Japan and lived in the […]

This is completely unrelated to most of the subjects on my blog, but I wanted to share my thoughts on Zeitgiest Addendum
I emplore everyone to explore this idea more, and carefully examine their premises. In the first 10 minutes of this video I was aghast at the fallacies in their arguments. (Not to mention […]

Shinjuku, a street still lit up at night.

Yes, yes we did. Imagine that, Friday at Friday’s.

doesnt look so appetizing - considering it is half consumed food. The TGI Friday’s here is just like the one in the States. They even have the Jack Daniels Burger… but we went on the healthier side, […]

Today included a few firsts.
At lunch 2 of my coworkers and I (all of us gaijin ~ foreigners) went to the local supermarket and got “bento” or a lunch plate.  We took our lunch in its bag to the local shrine that is across from the office.  This was my first time going to the […]

Was curious this evening about Tokyo, considering since I live here now it only makes sense to learn a little bit more about the city. Here are a few tidbits that were fun to learn:

Tokyo inner city has a population over 8 million (thats about 1 million more than NY).
The metropolitan area is […]

Some of my friends got to see the Watchmen movie in the States. It wont show up here for quite some time. I wonder their take on it? Good / bad? I never read the comic book - just dont have time for it.
http://www.youtube.com/v/2VLA0tg5yI0&hl=en&fs=1
I also wont get to see the new […]

Sunday was quite busy, and included enough walking and talking to make me very tired.  Our plans included getting lunch, going to city hall, meeting Ayako’s cousin Yasuko (more nihongo practice for me!), birthday present shopping for Ayako’s friend, and grocery shopping.
For lunch today we decided to do something very American - and eat at […]

going to the 7-11 to get some food, no slurpees here.

before getting my food - i deposited some plastic bottles for recycling. Recycling to Japanese is a very important thing. You see recycling bins at almost every store.

random political poster on my way back from the 7-11…

Thursday’s power lunch. Ame (”American”) […]

In Japanese there are 4 written “alphabets” that are used on a regular basis. These 4 types of characters cover the full spectrum of the spoken Japanese language. They are:

Kanji
Hiragana
Katakana
Romaji

I’ll start with Romaji, because its the simplets.  Romaji is the roman / english alphabet - everything that you are reading in this sentence […]

So wanted to share a sample apartment brochure with all of you. This is one we might go and look at - although I doubt we will take it (Ayako doesnt like tatami mat rooms - she says they are more trouble than they are worth). We are on a waiting list for […]