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Ugly Americans

I just read this book Ugly Americans...

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Japanese Compound Words

漢字の熟語Japanese compound words are the most important element of Japanese vocabulary.Common examples are hana+mi 花見 = "flower looking," i.e. cherry blossom viewing, gai+shoku 外食 = "out eating," i.e. eating out, bi+jo 美女 = "beautiful woman," or, a beauty, furu+hon 古本 =…

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tea espresso HATEA

紅茶館,有大象標誌,有外帶杯。

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Architectural Papercraft

FOTOMO is a Japanese book that includes papercraft cutouts of city sights. Looks like it would let you create quite the nice diorama. Via Boing Boing. time savedtime saved

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Big man's shoes, a large shoe shop Big Bee

Big B a place in Tokyo for large feet

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This Week at MoCo Loco

My weekly Tokyo post is up at MoCo Loco, this time covering Lemnos‘ Spread Clock, Takumi Yoshida’s Revolve power strip, an exhibition of works by Ryuji Nakamura, and Ryue Nishizawa’s participation in the “Some Ideas on Living…” exhibition. time savedtime saved

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Bare Japanese bottoms

While the sidle towards summer in Japan means a heightening of the season’s horrible humidity, at least some of the uncomfortableness is luckily countered by the phenomenal amount of flesh that will be flaunted; like this previously posted picture for example. Yet before Tokyo Times can be…

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The Lonesome Puppy

Yoshitomo Nara has released his first children’s book, THE LONESOME PUPPY. You’ll find a few excerpts here. Via Boing Boing. time savedtime saved

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Japan Beats World Hockey Champs

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/images/vbimghos t/9794834cfd2d3b52.jpg World Hockey: Japan stun The Netherlands In what is undoubtedly the shock...

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Japanese Cartoon "Insults Islam"

Kyodo via Japan Today: Publisher to suspend cartoon sales after Muslims say it insults Islam A popular Japanese cartoon is sparking off outcries in...

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Obama girls in Japan

“Obama” is a fishing village of 32,000 people in Japan who now are rooting for Senator Barack Obama Obama to become the next president and make the city of Obama a tourist destination. So, of course the Japanese “Obama Girls” dress up in grass skirts and do the hula. AFP…

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Lost parrot gives vet his name and address

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/lo st.parrot.ap/index.html That parrot probably once belonged to the yakuza as he wouldn't talk to...

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