Is there a big difference between a big & small city?

posted by  cocoapriest | 9 years ago | 2 comments

Are they very sensitive about this topic?

posted by  cocoapriest | 9 years ago | 5 comments

Moe and more free Wi-fi services are coming in, to help tourists.A recentarticle is here..

Let's create a good list of free wifi, and prepaid data plans.

Here is a good link to some of them. My fa…

posted by  Tanuki | 9 years ago | 0 comments

This is what you would expect:

And this is what you actually get:

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years ago | 2 comments

Religion may play an ambiguous role in Japanese life but the arduous pilgrimage remains popular with walkers, cyclists and coachloads.

Today, the pilgrimage’s 850 miles no longer thre…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years ago | 1 comment

It is an interesting article from Wikimedia blog (I didn't know that wikipedia did such interesting studies! that talks about popolarity of Olympic athletes in different countries:

On Wikipedia, O…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years ago | 3 comments

Japan home to 541,000 young recluses, survey finds

An estimated 541,000 people aged between 15 and 39 in Japan avoid social contact and shut themselves in their homes, according to a government s…

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years ago | 3 comments

Everyone knows the mainstream manga, but there should be others that are less known and more interesting.

My favourite is Saint Oniisan, which features Budha and Jesus sharing an apartment in Tokyo…

posted by  Yubi | 9 years ago | 3 comments

Japanese English can be very funny, but this example is quite extraordinary because with just the quotation marks the author expressed quite the opposite from what she wanted to say :)

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years ago | 1 comment

I know it is a showcase marketing article from Google (the author of Tensor Flow framework) and it is very specialized subject which is not meant for general public. It is still fun and I couldn't …

posted by  banzaitokyo | 9 years ago | 1 comment