15 posts tagged “japan”
これは酷いwww
でも面白い。
@nifty：デイリーポータルZ：日本一の地底駅、土合駅に行ってきた
こういう場所って凄いツボ。行きたい行きたい！
日本から持って帰ってきたこれがおいしい。
粉状になっているお茶が中に入っていて、水やらお湯やらミルクと混ぜて飲む。コーヒーばっかり飲んでるけど、たまにはこういうのもいい。
一保堂は京都のお茶屋さん。私は都内デパートの地下で買ったけど。
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Love this green tea powder. You just mix this with water, hot water, or milk and voila! You have a cup of good green tea drink. Easy and tasty.
Shopped at Ippodo in Tokyo. This tea shop originally started in Kyoto almost 300 years ago.
東郷さんに会いに行って来た。
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Azuki (red beans) Frappuccino. This is Japan-only Frappuccino and really good. I probably like it more than I like Green Tea Frappuccino.
Ok, I thought I should write about this.
On May 9, 2007, there was a gang-rape incident in Osaka, Japan.
A woman went into a steak restaurant called Pepper Lunch in Shinsaibashi, Osaka, to have a late night meal and was served with a stun gun, sleeping pills, kidnapping and gang-rape. She was kept at a garage until somehow managed to escape next morning. A manager of the restaurant, Daisuke Kitayama, and an employee, Masanobu Miyake, were arrested while they were working at the restaurant like nothing ever happened.
There are so many things to argue about this awful incident.
First, from what I hear, there aren't enough media coverage on this incident. I have always had a great deal of distrust in Japanese media (journalism? whaaaaa?) but seriously, WTF!? Is there anything they have to hide about the incident, the company or those criminals? There wasn't an official news release of this crime until 17th of May. It happened on 9th!
Second, those criminals totally planned this. The garage they used to bring her into and keep her was rented before that day. It's possible they've done similar crimes before.
Third, a parent company that owns Pepper Lunch Shinsaibashi, Pepper Food Service, has the same restaurants all over Japan but they are all operating as usual. Well, I guess you could argue that those other stores do not have to close just because of an evil-doing of one store and the company did post an apology notice on the other stores. But I say this company just doesn't care, especially since it restarted its commercials on the media already.
Japan Today: Restaurant owner, worker held in abduction, rape of customer in Osaka
いくつかのメロディー聞くと日本が恋しくなる。私鉄と東京メトロばっかり利用してるけどさ。
１つは歩兵さんの物、もう１つは騎兵さんの物。
震えた。この杯で日本酒飲んだ。
GOSH, I must admit that it was the most interesting art exhibition I've ever been to (even better than the Magritte one I went to several years ago). I think it was partly due to the fact that we went there early enough so that we don't have to crawl between people in the museum (like we had to when we went to see the exhibitions of Dalí, Millet, Magritte. Yes, their paintings are great but they're SO popular that the museums were too packed to enjoy the art to the fullest).
Of course, the printings of Escher were just AMAZING! I just liked his stuff but now I deeply respect him and absolutely love his art! I'm sure I'd have loved them even though the place was packed but it's so much better when there are less people around. And I'm short so I always have trouble looking at a whole work when there are 30 people gathered at one place to look at one piece of art.
Oh, one of the cool thing about this exhibition was that Nintendo DS Lite were used as audio guides! I've been to a exhibition where iPods were used as audio gudes but Nintendo DS! Neat.
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渋谷までエッシャー展を見に行ってきた。
すごい良かった！
朝イチで行ったからか、２組目で、ゆったりと見ることができた。ダリ展の時とは違って好きな作品をずーっと１人でのんびり鑑賞、なんてのもできた。もちろん後からどんどん人は入って来るわけだけど、それでもダリの時の混雑ぶりに比べたら何でもない。
エッシャーは今まで「好き」って程度だったけど、「尊敬」＆「大好き」に変わったよ。やっぱ本で見るのと実物を見るのは違うなー。楽しかった！！
I waited in a line for an hour just to get inside, then once I was inside all I saw were people, people and more people... I was quite surprised that so many people chose to come see the art instead of going new year's shopping (and this exhibition's been going on since Sep.).
Anyway I really enjoyed the exhibition. Love his art. ¡Que unico!
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上野の森美術館でやっている、ダリ回顧展に行って来た。
上野駅に着いたら駅でもう入場券が買えるようになってて、そこでJRのおじさんに、「入場は１時間待ちですよ」って言われてビックリ。今日からほとんどの場所で初売りなのに、そんなに美術館に行きたい人がいるのか！ 仕方ないので、入場までに１時間並んだ。暖かい日で良かった。
中に入ってからも凄い人、人、人！ それでもダリの絵が見られて幸せー。こんな機会なかなかないし。良かったー、日本にいる時にやってて。
