My good, good friend from Bristol is coming to Tokyo for a month to study Japanese!
Emily Erwin (not the one from the Dixie Chicks) is going to be here for the month of July! She lives in Kanazawa where she teaches at a university, but she's on summer break now.
Last buddy from home that came to visit was Dan Eling (2004?).
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friends
This one hasn't really been played up very much by the English media yet, but the head of the education board of Shimonoseki city in Yamaguchi Prefecture told the head of a Korean school that Japan's pre-WWII colonization of the Korean peninsula "contradicts a historical fact".
There isn't a whole lot in the way of context being bandied about yet, but it appears, at this early juncture at least, that the 44-year-old head of the city education board, Tsuyoshi Shimakura, is replaceable.
Click here for a Japanese article.
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education,
life in Japan,
stupidity
Wada, Japan, one of the last legal bastions of whaling in this country, brings the youngsters out to watch the slaughter.
Japanese children as young as ten are watching whales being slaughtered to teach them the "cultural importance" of Japan's controversial commercial whaling industry.
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business,
consumerism,
life in Japan,
politics,
society
Daniel Rios, Tokyo's only off-season acquisition that involved a foreign player, was recently given his marching orders.
Apparently only horses can get away with using that steroid.
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baseball,
sports,
stupidity,
Tokyo Swallows
The deceased AMPM shop space has been dormant for quite a while, but it looks like someone has decided to take the plunge.
I have a feeling that it's going to be yet another clinic as those have been popping up at a feverish pace in Hanakoganei lately.
It's definitely not large enough to be a gym, but oh well...
The deck space out front means that it's likely to be a service industry company that gambles on the location.
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business,
Hanakoganei,
花小金井
Our new blogging project, 燕軍： Tokyo Yakult Swallows, is doing quite well! There appears to be a large body of baseball fans, both in and outside Japan, that is interested in NPB, and the number of visitors to the site each day has continued to climb.
There's already a lot of content on the site (well, considering that it's only been up for a few weeks), so please pop on over and have a look.
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baseball,
sports,
Tokyo Swallows,
websites
I just added a blogroll to the sidebar that is more dynamic than the last one. The site that updated most recently will appear on top. Kind of a cool idea.
There's also the option of including a snippet from the post pulled off the top of each site's feed, but I wasn't sure if that would balloon the thing out too much. Maybe I'll turn that thing on in the future.
I may also reorganize my "More Links" section. There are a lot of sites in there that update regularly that are mixed in with more businessy sites. Sites dealing with Asia in particular, which happen to be mostly blogs, probably deserve their own blogroll similar to the one at the top of the page.
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computers
The new Pepsi product, Blue Hawaii, caught my attention when I walked into a convenience store recently.
It's a bit too small to read, but the words under the giant "Blue Hawaii" on the bottle are "pineapple and lemon".
Reminds me of this.
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consumerism,
food,
oddities
