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Kotsu Anzen
In Japan, they often use these life-sized plastic highway worker effigies to direct motorists around road crews where a simple light would suffice. I always feel like abducting these insane…
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Ninjaland
Parking area in Iga, infamous ninja country. FYI, they don’t sell real ninja weapons in the gift shop.
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No bukkake jokes, please
Just got back from a long, long day in Nagoya at the sumo tournament. It was a wonderful experience, but the long drive home through stop-and-go traffic and a lightning…
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Mental Clinic
Just me, or is it a bit tacky?
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Front Robby (redux?)
I may have blogged about this sign in front of a Amemura love hotel before, but I can’t be bothered to check if it was on the old Yapeus site…
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Eggtart Shop
This is the shop that caused the Great Eggtart Craze of 2002, located between Nanpabashi and Midosuji. We bought an 8-pack for 15 bucks with the intention of taking them…
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OG Planning
I looked around the building’s parking garage for a fleet of lowered Impalas – no luck.
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HA HA
I just typed the search string “nagoya late night stupid drunk motherfuckers” into the Yahoo Japan search box on a whim, to find a good pub out here tonight. Quite…
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Moriyama Sumo Program
I’m really looking forward to seeing sumo for the first time. We’re going to the Nagoya tournament on Saturday. Here’s an article about sumo barely surviving as a school sport…
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“Right now,” she told me, “right now is fine.”
There’s a memorable profile on Karl Taro Greenfeld, written by the man himself, over at Time Asia: Tokyo Popped His writing, as always, is vivid and enjoyable. Sometimes I suspect…
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Growing Pains
The kitten grows as I type these very words. The trip to the vet two days ago showed his growth rate as what I thought to be impossible. The first…
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“Price check on aisle 9…”
Wataru-kun must have lost his price tag again. So it begins: School to put electronic tags on students to monitor safety Paired with the Ministry of Health’s decision to implant…
