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Happy New Year Everyone!
on Jan 15, 2006 in Japanese culture Happy New Year Everyone! Wish you all the best 2006. I wonder what did you do for the New Year? Me, had to work all through, but I had some New Year's thingees to do. In New Year's, we have a special food box called "Osechi". There are must items to...
Come to me "GOOD LUCK!"
on Jan 31, 2006 in Japanese culture Tomorrow, 3rd of Feburary is the day we call "Setsubun". It is a day to welcome the good lucks and scatter the bad lucks away. We throw beans out to the windows yelling "Go away BAD LUCK!" and spread the beans inside house calling "Come in GOOD LUCK!
Who says Japan is in economic crisis???
on Mar 7, 2006 in Japanese culture I was just watching TV on my holiday evening and saw this docmentary about HOST CLUB. Host club is a Japan's one of the craziest business. It brings $20,000,000 a year. The business is as exactly as what it's called. Men hosting women(men as you wish...
Pretty "Cherry blossom" shake
on Mar 31, 2006 in Japanese culture If you have never been to Japan, come around right now! It is cherry blossom(sakura) season and Japan is covered in PINK!!! So pretty shake. They only last for about a week. The pebbles fall like snow, makes the pink carpet on the streets...(then it...
Wunderkammer Object #26: The Karakuri Doll
on Jul 26, 2007 in robotics japanese culture karakuri wunderkammer automata Kirsty Boyle has compiled a marvellous website that explains in text and pictures "the Karakuri Ningyo craft, and its influence on technology and the arts." This craft, as Boyle explains, is the artistic and technological tradition in Japan of craft...