Locohama’s Book: My Name is Loco and I am a Racist
Posted by harvey in Books on 18. Jan, 2012 | No Comments
Well, another Japan blogger has beat me to self-publishing! (I really need to get on that.) Baye from Loco in Yokohama has finished his book! His blog is extremely popular so I’m sure his book will be enjoyed by many. His book is called “Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist” and [...]
Japanese Language Audio Books on iPad with Rye Studio
Posted by harvey in Books, Gadgets, Media on 03. Oct, 2011 | 3 Comments
In an effort to boost my pitiful Chinese abilities… I got an App! A company called Rye Studio makes a series of picture book apps for iPhone and iPad that read you a story while showing you the text in Chinese. Listening to target language text being read at native speed while reading along is [...]
Scars Borough
Posted by harvey in Media, Music on 16. Sep, 2011 | 2 Comments
This music recommendation must be the most personal one I have ever done… Here’s the story. So a long time ago in Japan I met a French dude. We became friends, time passed, I moved to Osaka and he was still in Tokyo, and we didn’t see each other so often anymore. Then a few [...]
Bright Siren by androp
Posted by harvey in Art, Music on 08. Sep, 2011 | 3 Comments
If you’re into Japanese rock and… camera flashes… you’ll probably find this to be pretty interesting. This is the video for the song Bright Siren by a Japanese band called androp. They used 250 cameras to set this up. Pretty impressive in terms of scale! Fun stuff. If you check their official website you can [...]
Japanese slang: Bacchiguu
Posted by harvey in Language, Media on 03. Sep, 2011 | Comments Off
Time to learn some 90s Japanese slang!!! バッチグー!!! I can hardly even remember why I wanted to blog about this phrase… Ah yes, I do remember now. So I’m slowly working my way through Devil Survivor, a sweet strategy RPG for DS, and there is one character that says this phrase over and over again. [...]
World Order: Japanese Street Performance Group
Posted by harvey in Media on 17. Aug, 2011 | 3 Comments
I don’t think I can add much to these videos. Just watch. Also check out World Order official website. WORLD ORDER are… 須藤元気（GENKI SUDO） 野口 量（RYO NOGUCHI） 崎山 清之（KIYOYUKI SAKIYAMA） 内山隼人（HAYATO UCHIYAMA） 森澤 祐介（YUSUKE MORISAWA） 高橋 昭博（AKIHIRO TAKAHASHI） 落合 将人（MASATO OCHIAI） Actually… there is one thing I can add. Did you know that the leader of this [...]
OMODAKA Video
Posted by harvey in Culture, Media, Music on 03. Aug, 2011 | 1 Comment
A newish video from OMODAKA! I really like OMODAKA’s style. He mixes traditional Japanese folk music with his modern digital beats and the results are really fun. OMODAKA in action Check out some of the links below for more OMODAKA videos and information. Related Posts: New OMODAKA drops Tuesday! More OMODAKA Get OMODAKA Albums on [...]
Tadoku Again! What to Read?
Posted by harvey in Books, Language on 29. Jun, 2011 | 4 Comments
Kafka! Again! Tadoku is coming again! I haven’t performed very well in the Tadoku competitions. I do read a lot of Japanese daily, because it’s my life, but I have trouble sticking to whatever novel it was that I picked for the contest. Also, I’m too lazy to record pages of games or random webpages [...]
