Overwork – karoushi
Posted by harvey in Media, Society, Working on 11. Jun, 2008 | 5 Comments
I rarely post news articles, but the text for the photo in a recent IHT article entitled, “Japanese salarymen fight back” is just too intense. And I quote. Hiroko Uchino in her home in Aichi, Japan, with a photo of her husband, Kenichi, who died of overwork at the age of 30. That is just [...]
Issues fixed.
Posted by harvey in About on 07. Jun, 2008 | 8 Comments
As I think tons of you noticed, I was having major issues with the comments, and other things on this blog for more than a week! I finally got it fixed. Sorry for the silence! I hope you enjoyed the pictures from the other posts though! Welcome back. Please become chaty again and leave a [...]
Ramen in Jyuugaoka
Posted by harvey in Food, Tokyo on 07. Jun, 2008 | 4 Comments
I stumbled upon this yummy Ramen shop in Jyuugaoka while wandering with a friend in Tokyo before I left. Just look at this. The peppered stuff in the upper left above the pork is tuna (maguro) – and boy was it good. This is some high-quality, high-cost ramen. I think it was something like 900 [...]
Hamamatsu Kite Festival
Posted by harvey in Culture, Travel on 03. Jun, 2008 | 2 Comments
The Hamamatsu Kite Fesitval is held every year in May in Hamamatsu City [wiki], in Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. Usually Japanese festivals involve a portable shrine known as a “omikoshi” or dance, but occasionally there are festivals with completely different themes, like this one. Unfortunately this year it was cloudy throughout most of the day, [...]
