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Review: Kanji Solitaire for iOS

Posted by in Language on 05. May, 2013 @ 2:11 am | 1 Comment

Review: Kanji Solitaire for iOS

Hello everyone! I have been playing with @tuzen’s Kanji Solitaire App for iOS over the past week. This app is a great idea, and a much needed fresh approach to kanji study. There are lots of kanji Apps out there, but none like this. Kanji Solitaire App is a kanji puzzle game where you slide [...]

Life-sized Gundam Model in Tokyo

Posted by in Crazy Consumers on 24. Feb, 2013 @ 8:16 pm | 2 Comments

Life-sized Gundam Model in Tokyo

I had a chance to go check out the life-sized Gundam Model in Tokyo this month! I’m not gonna lie. I have never watched a full episode of Gundam. I am not a true Gundam fan. I do however appreciate a giant robot anime every now and then… So, I’m not a “true” Gundam fan… [...]

Evangellion makes Suizenji Kiyoko popular to a new audience

Posted by in Language, Music on 06. Jan, 2013 @ 5:06 pm | 1 Comment

Evangellion makes Suizenji Kiyoko popular to a new audience

Thanks to geeking out on Evangellion I recently stumbled upon this classic Japanese song called 365-step March. This song is appears in EVANGELION:2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE when the new character Mari is fighting an Angel near the beginning of the movie. Being the crazy character that she is, Mari sings this song as she [...]

Shared my Japanese Anki Deck

Posted by in Language on 21. Oct, 2012 @ 4:32 pm | 2 Comments

Shared my Japanese Anki Deck

I just shared my Japanese Anki Deck! It’s very personal. Basically when I see something I don’t know, I write it down, and then some day I stuff it into Anki. I have been using Anki for years, so this deck is monsterous. It has like 700+ cards and they are of no particular difficulty [...]

Shingo Nishinari – Osaka Local Rap

Posted by in Media, Music, Osaka on 21. Oct, 2012 @ 10:26 am | 2 Comments

Shingo Nishinari – Osaka Local Rap

Looking for some fun Japanese music to listen to? OSAKA UP. The video features all the famous places in Osaka. Dotonbori Bridge, Tsutenkaku, Taiyou no Tou, and the entire video is in Kansai dialect. What more could you ask for? It also includes funny commentary on Osaka life, like Grandma’s who talk super fast and [...]

Excellent Hamburg and Steak in Osaka

Posted by in Food, Osaka on 01. Sep, 2012 @ 8:06 pm | Comments Off

Excellent Hamburg and Steak in Osaka

Had some delicous steak in the Kitashinchi area of Osaka a while ago after I saw it introduced on a Japanese TV show. If you’re looking for an awesome lunch in Osaka check it out. You can walk to Kitashichi from Umeda station (closest to Nishi-Umeda) in about 15 or 20 minutes, but there is [...]

Umeda Sky Building

Posted by in Osaka, Travel on 20. Aug, 2012 @ 9:50 pm | Comments Off

Umeda Sky Building

Looking for something touristy to do in Osaka? Consider a visit to the observation deck on Umeda Sky Building! The views are pretty spectacular, and it’s conveniently located near Umeda station. Admission is not too expensive either! The Japanese name is 空中庭園 which means “sky garden,” but most people will understand if you say Sky [...]

Burning Characters into the Mountains – Daimonji

Posted by in Culture, Kyoto, Travel on 17. Aug, 2012 @ 4:19 pm | Comments Off

Burning Characters into the Mountains – Daimonji

I had the opportunity to witness Daimonji yesterday with some friends. We all met on a friend’s balcony in Sanjyo. Pretty spectacular view! The wikipedia entry on Daimonji, officially called gozan no okuribito, does a better job of explaning the event than I could ever attempt. So read it. At the most basic level daimonji [...]

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