Until further notice this blog remains here for archival purposes and is not actively posted on. It is unclear as to when this will change, but this is to let you know.
April 17, 2009
Cast Kitagawa Keiko as Hasegawa Momoko Miyama Karen as young Hasegawa Momoko Tanihara Shosuke as Ohtomo Shotaro Asami Reina as Ookouchi Hina Takaoka Sousuke as Wakayama Akira Sato Jiro as Higashi Shigeo Magii as Yokouchi Atsushi Watanabe Natsuna as Nakamura Tamaki Ikezu Shoko as Kataoka Miki Hori Mayumi as Ryoko (Shotaro’s ex-lover) Honda Hirotaro as [...]
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April 15, 2009
History The TV Tower was built in 1957 and cost 170 Million Yen. (Approximately 1,700,000 USD) It is used as a repeater which is an antenna that receives a signal boosts it and pushes it back out to another area. It isn’t a main broadcast tower. The signature digital clocks on all 4 sides were [...]
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April 14, 2009
Here are some more interesting links around the English/Japanese bloggosphere. Most of the links I try to get are to help better understand the culture in Japan as understanding the culture is a good way to understand the language. I only make these posts when I find 20 links I think are more interesting than [...]
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April 13, 2009
Cast Nagase Tomoya as Sakaki Makio Tegoshi Yuya as Sakurakoji Jun Tanaka Koki as Manabe Kazuya Aragaki Yui as Umemura Hikari Murakawa Eri as Hagiwara Saki Kikawada Masaya as Sakaki Mikio Osugi Ren as Kuroi Teruyuki Ichimura Masachika as Sakaki Kiichi Plot Sakaki Makio, also known as “Tornado” is a tough 27-year-old high school drop-out. [...]
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April 12, 2009
Cast Ito Misaki as Aoyama Saori Ito Atsushi as Yamada Tsuyoshi Shiraishi Miho as Jinkama Kisuzu Sato Eriko as Sawazaki Kaho Sudo Risa as Mizuki Yuuko Hayami Mokomichi as Aoyama Keisuke Sato Jiro as Kuroki Fumito Maekawa Yasuyuki as Oikawa Naoto Horikita Maki as Yamada Aoi Koide Saori as Takeda Karin Gekidan Hitori as Matsunaga [...]
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April 2, 2009
This is a review for Edison no Haha (Edisons Mother) Cast Ito Misaki as Ayukawa Noriko Sakai Maki as Hanafusa Aoi Tanihara Shosuke as Miura Shimizu Yuya as Hanafusa Kento Sugita Kaoru as Mizuki Matsushita Yuki as Kagami Tanaka Yoji Hosoda Yoshihiko as Kubo sensei Ito Masayuki as (The Principal) Kamimura Kyoko as Hanafusa Chie [...]
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March 22, 2009
Over at the All Japanese All the Time site Khatsumoto says: Classes suck. Not only do they cost money, but they’re boring and they don’t work. You only need look as far as the number of people taking Japanese classes, versus the number of people who are actually good at Japanese. The people in charge [...]
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March 19, 2009
Note/Disclaimer: This is a post that is meant to give a quick overview of some of Gunma and not full detail of everything. Gunma is much like a state in the US with a rich past, present, and future to come. I can’t possibly cover everything and getting the tip of everything would be a [...]
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March 15, 2009
Here are some more interesting links around the English/Japanese bloggosphere. Most of the links I try to get are to help better understand the culture in Japan as understanding the culture is a good way to understand the language. Photography Starting Photography – Street Photography A Night In Osaka Ghost Town Haikyo… The Tokyoite: Crossing [...]
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March 14, 2009
Story Line The basic plot line is about a guy that is popular, but is very superficial so that he doesn’t get hurt. However, along comes a very unpopular girl that is one of those that people love to hate because she is so out of the norm. He befriends her because he has an [...]
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