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Tag Archives: Osaka
Leaving Japan: an email
Here’s the text of an email I sent from Kansai International Airport to a few people at around 11:00 (Japan time) today: Hi all, Kansai airport has free wireless internet (one of the few good things about Japan!), so I … Continue reading
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Tagged Airport Train, American Cities, Departure Lounge, Escalators, Free Wireless Internet, Highway Tolls, Japan Time, Kansai, Kansai Airport, Kansai International Airport, Last Sunday, Liveable City, Main Roads, Namba, Ordeal, Osaka, Second City, Taxi Driver, Train Trip, United Airlines
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Loose change
Looking around modern Japan, I don’t know why, but invisible rules have grown up everywhere. Lifestyle, human relations, clothing, deportment—each of these is enclosed in a framework. Just as the audience at a wedding stands up, sits down, and points … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Kerr, Amazon, Biro, Citibank Branch, Cupboard, Demons, Deposit Slip, Gunma Ken, Human Relations, Invisible Rules, Living In Japan, Loose Change, Modern Japan, Old Apartment, Osaka, Pencil, Shinsaibashi, Tellers, Wikipedia, Worthless Pieces
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Clubbing
Last night I went “clubbing” for the first time in my life. Sure, I’d been to bars that play loud music before, and places with a dancefloor, and places where you can’t hear your friends when you try to talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdism, Animality, Birds, Courtship Rituals, Crowd, Dancefloor, Dread, Drinks, Free Surface, Friend Erika, Going To The Bathroom, Instigator, Intellect, Japanese Girls, Loud Music, Osaka, Spirits, Time In My Life, Wikipedia, Woman Dancing
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Xbox 360: It’s big in Japan
Microsoft are busy gearing up for this month’s launch of the Xbox 360 in Japan, hoping to succeed with it where Xbox failed. Since the original Xbox’s sheer size and ugliness undoubtedly contributed to its unpopularity in Japan, putting a … Continue reading
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Tagged Big In Japan, Drawing, Faceplates, Giant, Hdtv, Launch, Microsoft, Osaka, Perfect Dark Zero, Security Guard, Sheer Size, Trailers, Ugliness, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Japan
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