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Happy new year of the Water Dragon!
The lunar new year begins today and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. To be precise, this
Oh Noes!
”Fly to Japan! Project” has (sadly) not been approved! Japan is fighting with a tight budget for 2012 and the predictions for tourists afflux to
All Good Things…
…come to an end. So sang Nelly Furtado a few years back, and I was listening to that song while reading Un altro giro di giostra,
The End is the Beginning is the End
Awakened by the room cleaners around one o’clock, I started 2012 with a shower followed by an earthquake. Then I told myself… now this is
The Search for the Otaku Grail
Going to Akiba, also known as 秋葉原 (Akihabara) or the “electric town”, is always a weird experience. Once the only place in Tokyo where you
Sunshine on the Sunshine
One of the things I do basically each time I come to Tokyo is pay a visit to what has been for a long time
The Language Barrier
I’ve mostly not been using japanese in the last two years, and as a result I was quite worried about going back to the land
The Japanese Cold
One thing I pretty much forgot about Japan, was how damn cold this country can be. No, I’m not talking about people, but about the
Raising suns and falling eyelids
Hello from Tokyo folks! Now that I’m writing it’s about 6 p.m. and I’m having serious issues with my eyelids, which just won’t stop falling…
Getting ready to go!
The day of my departure for Tokyo gets closer and I’m almost ready! It’s been a two and a half years (and some) since I
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