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Sometimes I Talk About Japan

Posted on Saturday, January 26th, 2008, at 7:50 PM

I uploaded some new Japan photos to Flickr. Well, actually they’re a year old now. I really need to finish up that series of posts from my trip. Anyhow, these are the photos from the second half of this post in case you want to follow along (the photos from the first half are …

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Idol Hands

Posted on Friday, July 20th, 2007, at 5:34 PM

Thanks to Kotaku, I discovered some YouTube videos with incredible timing relative to my previous post. This segment from an English-language TV show in Japan is about the street idols in Akihabara. It’s pretty much exactly what we saw in January, but with a more thorough explanation, and some interviews with locals….

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Foxes and Maids

Posted on Monday, July 16th, 2007, at 11:10 AM

In which I visit a shrine with a theme, and a cafe with a better theme.

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