Monthly Archives: September, 2009
TV Asahi and TBS Now on YouTube
Yesterday, there was announcement that TV Asahi and TBS are going to YouTube to stream their video content to users. They are wanting to use the popularity and the backbone of YouTube to offer quality service to viewers. However, I am not sure if something is getting lost in translation or not because what I [...]
Most of Japan doesn’t have Infrastructure for Cyclists
When I think of transportation in Japan I think Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift and bicycles. I think bicycles because I see pictures all the time when I see pictures of Japan. So to me it is amazing that they don’t have an infrastructure for cyclists when my area spends millions of dollars on it [...]
Japanese Speech Competitions
Speech competitions may be an interesting way to practice and get some critiques of your speaking ability and a fun way to really put yourself out there and force you to grow as a speaker.
Here are some videos of people doing there speech competitions. These are all gaijin’s doing speeches.
I took a look at some [...]
My Custom Made Desk
I have gone through several desks, but none have I ever truly liked completely because they never seemed to fulfill my needs fully. It seemed like all the desks would fulfill 1 or 2 things but never all of them. So finally I decided to make my own. While it isn’t pretty [...]
Where To Go From Here When You are Burnt Out
Burning out happens, but it is a good time to get going again. Recently, a commenter left a comment about how they are learning and some of the problems. Here is the comment:
Comment by: Kirlanda
Hi, I actually just stumbled on to your site. Because I’m not in any type of college course for japanese(my [...]
Honda U3-X or The Ultimate in Unicycle Technology
Not much of a unicyclist, but this is really cool. Would be very interesting to see this mass produced, though I don’t actually think it would be to very viable as even in the video demonstration it is a bit odd to use and not very predictable without a good amount of practice.
What seems [...]
74 Year Old Japanese Man Wins Bodybuilding Competition
And you thought all old people sat in wheelchairs all day. This is interesting and proves something I have thought and consider true. No matter the age if you take care of yourself you can do anything you want.
Japanese weightlifter Tsutomu Tosuka won first place in the seniours above 70 category in the 21st anneversary [...]
Dell Mini 9 Running Ubuntu
A while back my tablet died. However, I was getting by with my work laptop, but the thing is huge and long ago realized I liked how small my 12″ tablet was. One of the limiting factors to what I could get was cost. So i started looking and found that netbooks would probably fit [...]
Boy Scouts in Japan
The title is a bit misleading, but serves our purposes as a starting point. First I want to bring up that I am an Eagle Scout in the “Boy Scouts of America” and strongly believe in the values, skills and life lessons I have learned in Boy Scouts having been in it for almost 20 [...]
Shion no Ou
Plot
Shion no Ō centers around a young junior-high school girl named Shion Yasuoka who witnesses the murder of her parents as a child. At the time of the murder, the killer takes the king piece from her father’s shogi board. This leads her to believe that the murderer may be a shogi player. The shock [...]
