Tag: japan
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August 29, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
This lovely clown urinal can be found in Osaka, Japan. As you relieve yourself, it sings, dances, and eventually, starts gargling. Yeah, gargling.
And for those of . . .
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February 14, 2009 10:44 AM EST --
All across the world people are celebrating Valentines Day. It has a different meaning for everyone, every culture and every country. Then, there's Japan, a country who has adopted an . . .
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July 29, 2007 10:38 PM EDT --
Yesterday (Sunday here) was Election Day for the upper house (The House of Councilors -- bizarre spelling taken from the Japan Times).ÂÂ Prime Minister Abe's party, the LDP (Liberal . . .
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November 18, 2008 02:25 PM EST --
I have a job interview with a school in Japan tonight so I'm asking for good vibes both that I get it and that I want it. I've never been to Japan and I think it would be a great adventure.
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August 26, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
This is my mother-in-law's story, which I promised to write. It's a story about how governments decide to start wars, and people suffer for it. In this case, the government was Japan and the Japanese . . .
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November 15, 2009 03:05 PM EST --
I find it rather ludicrous (but not unexpected) that some people here on gather are pointing to Obama's bow to the Emperor of Japan and calling it "troubling".
What do all of you who find . . .
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November 25, 2009 08:16 AM EST --
Japanflowerfarm.com is here to your to make your day beautiful with japan flowers,tokyo gifts, tokyo flower. You can also order at japan flower shop,florist shop in japan,valentine flowers to japan, valentine . . .
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April 23, 2007 11:50 PM EDT --
Homemade Soba Noodles
“My wife’s mother is making soba noodles for us for dinner.” Buddhist Monk Yoshihiro Unezawa told me and made a circular motion with his hands - the . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:17 AM EDT --
Eight-Hundred Degree Sauna We are driving to the “Eight-Hundred Degree Sauna”. Beth, Marianne and I are accompanying Masae Masuda to the Aeon Mall for an onsen spa experience. . . .
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September 01, 2007 09:02 PM EDT --
Yeah, it's a link-to. Check this out:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_ninja
Apparently, Shaolin monks are angry because of something someone said on the . . .
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December 29, 2007 04:00 PM EST --
I collect Occupied Japan, porcelain, pottery and bisque figurines and dishes. This hobby started in the late 1940s when a great aunt who doted on me gave me these small but beautiful little pieces of . . .
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June 13, 2008 02:14 PM EDT --
For many, many years I was skeptical of the validity of prophecy. To me, so much of what is claimed to be prophetic insight into the future was stated so by being matched to the supposed future . . .
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June 19, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
3-D TV... aka Tridef. Article I found on IMDB.
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0249740/
3-D TV Set Unveiled In Japan
19 June 2008 10:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent . . .
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February 05, 2009 04:37 PM EST --
This semester I'm taking a course entitled "Culture of Japan". I'm really enjoying it because I'm passionate about Japan and a lot of the material we've covered but . . .
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June 03, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Starting this fiscal year, Japan Post Service Co. will gradually introduce electric cars to replace and eventually phase out its current fleet of automobiles over the next eight years.
The company . . .
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June 12, 2008 04:13 PM EDT --
TOKYO - A money-losing Japanese train company has found the purr-fect pet mascot to draw crowds and bring back business — tabby Tama.
All the 9-year-old female cat does is sit by the entrance . . .
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December 30, 2006 09:22 AM EST --
It was my final New Years Eve in Japan. We usually spent the evening at the Enlisted Club on the base, but this year it was decided to go to Tokyo. We had learned the trains ran all night on New Years, . . .
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May 29, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Deep fried grasshoppers.
She always taught us to be polite and eat what was served by your host or hostess, whether . . .
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September 25, 2007 02:26 AM EDT --
I returned from a visit to Kyoto, Japan earlier this month. Kyoto is one of the oldest, best preserved cities in Japan. It was the capital of Japan for more than 1000 years and was not bombed in WW II. . . .
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December 08, 2007 11:47 PM EST --
There is a tiny, family owned 'factory' in Mashiko, Japan. It's one of the few places in the world that still makes fabric and colors it with natural Indigo dye. The dye is made . . .
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