A Week in Tokyo 29we already have free wifi in Paris in almost all the public space ( garden, museum etc..) and admistration building. it give u a free wifi access for an hour, after that u have to restart a session but u can restart as many time as u want. take a lon...
Tokyo Troopermostly I skip the figure coverage because it's not really my interest, but I read it some time just to be aware and when it's about mecha (very rare this time) for the design. I'm here first and foremost for ur daily life in this funny town of Tokyo...
Hmmm Nice Eyes 1Don't read Japanese so I pick up the english version. First time 've heard ur voice was on ur common monthly geek review with Daimaou from Akihabaranews. Any other stuff like that or u're both too busy?
Tokyo Photo Walk 1There is a lot of people in Shinjuku, Shibuya, Akihabara and place like that, but residential quarters (which represent maybe 70% of tokyo) are real no mans land day and night. Danny, I thought u were professsionally related to Akihabara news? there...
A Week in Tokyo 19Watch anime on my computer with my old CRT( like the contrast of such PC screen when black is truly black), and yes i have the same comrade who's nice enough to subtitle it :). I used to have cockroaches when I was living in a tower in Paris because...
Why Japan Sucksusually for Blockbuster we get it at the same time than in US, and Ironman wasn't a worlwide released? (sometime before: Indiana Jones 4 release 1 day before US because of the avant-première at the festival of Cannes) If it's not a worldwide release...
A Week in Tokyo 17most popular payment system is the credit card in France (call it carte bleue) probably because it's a french guy who invent the protection chip and the algorythm. start in the early 90's and now u can pay with it everywhere or drawn cash on automat...
Bargaining in Japanin France tax is almost 20%, so do not forget the duty free at the airport(I've seen a special system of tax refund for the japanese people at the CDG airport). U can bargain in France specially in the flee market of Paris but it's very rare now, an...
Health Care in JapanThey are not trying to find any trace of drugs use in the poo, I guess they are looking for blood trace in poo which can be a clue for an intestinal cancer...or piles.
Tokyo TrainsJapanese's people are mostly quite the same than folks on the Paris subway (the smelling, lousy talk on cellphone, etc...) except that we are more galant with old people, pregant women and other handicap people. I don't say that parisians are perfec...
Samurai SandersNever seen any colonel Sanders at a KFC in Paris. Nor in L.A too!! I guess this is typically japanese. By the way I've taste a KFC meal during my last trip in japan (only once the rest of the time I was in japanese restaurant) and it's definitely be...
Plasma VS LCDI've got a 4 years old 43" Pioneer plasma. it was the first flat screen with HDMI so don't really need to change it. But if I do, I'll stay with a Pioneer one. The 50" Kuro full HD had the most impressive color and contrast rendering I've ever seen...
