I’m back in the You Es of Aeyyyy! And this weekend is so damn Americaney. Sometimes I have little shocks about how not like Japan things are i.e. I reached into my mom’s purse to get a pen when I got back, and there was just a whole raw apple in there. You don’t come […]
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Each edition of d design travel is devoted to a prefecture. The print edition is know for its beautiful covers, and to me anyway, its awesomely formal side by side English translations of the Japanese text. i.e. this one’s from the bilingual app description of the store Mitate: “The culmination of Setsuko Yamada’s work in directing Japanese and Tokyo […]
I don’t usually do helpful content. It’s not my thing: helpful. Now, if you’re looking for lightly edited anecdotes about one woman’s opinion on Japanese dog hair arrangement magazines at the supermarket–and who isn’t?– I’m your blog. If you want to read about one woman’s general ennui and specific troubled incidents with bicycle ownership and parking […]
I’ve had an idea for a long time that there ought to be a social worker, a little table, and two chairs on every train platform in the Tokyo area. I’d visit, probably just to talk out why I was missing this one train connection about three days a week and to sit down, but […]
I know I really shouldn’t have, but I just wanted to try it out. And then it turned out to be a pretty awesome ride-with lots of room for groceries and a really trusting skinny hipped friend with a weak neck, if I can find one of those. I found it on Tuesday and I […]
I signed up with a few agencies once I came back down to Tokyo. I rode the guy who I’m illegaly subletting from’s bike to one appointment. The woman signing me up asked me if I wanted to use a stage name. And she paused which made me think she thought it might be a […]
I took a flight down to Tokyo from Hokkaido, fucking 4,900 yen like $50. Thank you new Asian low cost carriers, specifically Air “Now Everyone Can Fly” Asia! I got there early and here’s something I saw in the airport: a toddler on the ground licking the place where the carpet and the floor length […]
Yesterday I went to some agencies to sign up to be an extra because it’s probably the only way I can get anyone to touch my inseam. I went to one place and a big polite rugby player from New Zealand came in after me. We filled out forms, and when I got to the […]
Originally posted on Gaijinass:
Japan TV is obsessed with TV reenactments. A lot of them are Japanese historical pieces but quite a few are foreign historical dramas. Since Japan is almost exclusively of Japanese stock there is always a demand for foreign extras and characters to play the these parts. Now you’re probably thinking “I…
I’m moving out of my dorm, because it’s nearing the end of the snowboarding season, and the restaurant finally closed (thank you gods) but I’m not sure where I’m moving to next, yet. Because of that, I’ve been trying not to stop packing to read things, but sometimes you can’t help it, a lot of […]
