A surprisingly large portion of my first trip to Tokyo was spent scouring various toy stores in search of Japanese robots. What could be a cooler souvenir of my trip to Japan? It was the mid-90's and after days of searching I had a couple of articulated plastic robot figures and deep sense of disappointment.
|
|
When I contemplate a hypothetical situation where I might need emergency assistance in Japan two things come to mind:
First, the emergency number is 119 instead of 911.
Second, how the heck do you tell dispatch where the emergency is?
|
|
The publishing world has been buzzing about Trainman, the supposedly true story of a young man who spies his true love on the train...and the chat room denizens who help him capture his heart. "Densha Otoko," or "Trainman" by the pseudonomynous Hitori Nakano has Japanese (and surely United States) publishers scrambling for more stories of love in our high tech world.
|
|
Golden week, from the end of April to the beginning of May, is one of the biggest travel times of the year for Japanese people. It’s called Golden Week because several national holidays line up during this period and, together with a weekend on both side, means many people can take the entire week off, if not longer.
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 26 - 30 of 55 |
