All Items for December 2008

The last A Week in Tokyo installment for 2008. This series started over a year ago back in November 2007 with the aim of sharing my life with you in Tokyo. There are other articles in the category like A Week in Shanghai and A Week in Los Angeles but...

Spent Christmas evening at Roppongi Hills. After grabbing din dins, we headed to the Sky Deck to enjoy the most awesome views of Tokyo we've ever seen in the open air - photos soon. Then after chucking out time at 11pm, we wandered around the grounds...

Festive seasons greetings comrades! or "Merri Kurusumasu" as one would say in the Rand of the Lising Sun. While the Japanese do "celebrate" Christmas, its mainly for the monetary spirit - most of the Christmas decorations will be taken down either to...

From left to right:- <ul> <li>Fuminori Kizaki (Director of Afro Samurai, Animation Director of Blue Gender, Character Designer of Galaxy Railways, Key Animation for Macross Pluss OAV)</li> <li>Eric Calderon (Writer of Afro Samurai Season 2, CEO of...

Always knew that the UFO Catchers over here had cool stuff but didn't know how cool and the variety of goodies they had. Was in Shinjuku the other day where you can find a load of UFO Catcher centers filled with goodies galore including this Sega...

Collaboration video compiled by Fat Blue Man and a load of other million view YouTubers located in Japan. http://www.youtube.com/tokyocooney http://www.youtube.com/daichen http://www.youtube.com/gimmeabreakman http://www.youtube.com/pyonokan h...

Heard about these underground bicycle parking cylinders but never seen on in action until yesterday - was impressed. A very cute girl came along to park her bicycle and let me take some pics - love those knee-down garnments.

Outside our house getting some fresh n cold evening air. Interesting to see how more n more Japanese folks are putting up lights outside their house. We got these lights online from http://www.rakuten.co.jp/ - they are set to turn on when it gets da...