Japanese Character Input Mistakes
Posted by harvey in Language on 31. Jul, 2006 | 3 Comments
As many of you probably already know, when typing Japanese on a keyboard, it works something like this. – Enter the Romanization of the Japanese word you want to type. Example: kimono – If you’re in a Japanese input mode, by default your keyboard will change kimono to the proper Hiragana, in this case, きもの。 [...]
Moving On…
Posted by harvey in About on 29. Jul, 2006 | 17 Comments
From the poll that is currently running, it seems that you would like to know more about Japanese Society, see more Japan Pictures, and well… see some hot Japanese girls. I can deliver on the first two, but there are already plenty of hot Japanese girl sites, so I’m going to leave that category to [...]
Hale Hale Cafe Closing Down
Posted by harvey in Food, Osaka on 28. Jul, 2006 | 5 Comments
One of my favorite restaurants in Osaka, Hale Hale Cafe (ハレハレ カフェ） in Shinsaibashi, is going to be closing down August 27th. If you live in the Osaka area… Or even if you live anywhere in Kansai, please get down and check this place out before it closes. I have listed instructions on how to [...]
Japanese Sake and Sugidama
Posted by harvey in Culture on 23. Jul, 2006 | 3 Comments
Test your Japanese culture knowledge… Do you know what this is? If you guessed “sideways-furry-moon”, you’re wrong. It is what is called a “sugidama”（杉玉）. Or, ball of cedar? Don’t translate that. I really don’t know how they are made, but they are normally hung outside of sake shops in Japan. I also do not know [...]
Gion Matsuri Here again
Posted by harvey in Humor on 22. Jul, 2006 | Comments Off
Gion Matsuri has come in gone in Kyoto again this year. Last year I was right in the mosh pit and got some decent pictures. This time I didn’t get any especially intersting pictures, but we went up to the festival the day before the big event. Anyway, check out that link from a year [...]
ParaPara Dance on YouTube
Posted by harvey in Media, Music on 18. Jul, 2006 | 12 Comments
Has everyone hear heard of “Para Para”? Here is a video on YouTube featuring a popular parapara dance instructional video. Parapara was a type of… “dance”… popular in Japan about one year before I went to study Japanese at Nanzan University in Nagoya so many years ago. Around the time I arrived in Nagoya, my [...]
Water Bottle Defense
Posted by harvey in Culture on 15. Jul, 2006 | 10 Comments
Can you guess why these water bottles are sitting outside this Japanese home? Water Bottles The reason is to keep cats and crows and other undesirable animals away from the flowers. It’s common knowledge here, that these animals cannot come close to these water filled “pet-bottles”. I don’t think this actually works though… Apparently it’s [...]
Japanese News Blooper
Posted by harvey in Media on 13. Jul, 2006 | 2 Comments
There is a video on YouTube showing a Japanese News Cast originally filmed in 1998 from Fuji TV in which a lady attempts to demonstrate a safety evacuation device, only to have it fail and drop her five floors. She survives the fall, but she temporarily loses consciousness and reportedly breaks her hip in the [...]
