As usual, I was riding the train home from work in a borderline coma this afternoon. My hour-long commute takes me from the suburban melancholiness that is Saitama, then abruptly bores through Tokyo’s most prominent areas like Shinjuku and Shibuya,…
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Zero to Hero: At Last To Be A God
Tagged with: Japanese people, real-talk, soul-searching, Women in Japan
Posted in japan, life, social-issues
Posted in japan, life, social-issues
Wakarimasen, Dekimasen
In Japanese, this means “I don’t know about it, therefore it cannot be done.” or rather, “since I have never heard of this before, it must not even exist in the realm of time and space we currently occupy, thereby…
Tagged with: culture-shock, Expatriate Life, japan, problems, reflections
Posted in japan, life, social-issues
Posted in japan, life, social-issues
My thoughts on living in Japan and “sticking out”…
Meet Hiroko Nakamura of HirokoChannel on YokosoNews!
Today I was the “Social Media Director” for the YokosoNews live broadcast over at Gossip Cafe in Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan. I also appeared on the broadcast when asked about being Afro-American in Japan and any experiences of racism here. The…
Tagged with: Culture of Japan, Internet, tokyo, YokosoNews
Posted in Featured, japan, life, social-issues
Posted in Featured, japan, life, social-issues
Happy Birthday MLK, A world hero from the ATL
Last year, I wanted to teach the kids at the school I used to work at in Nagoya about Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and how the civil rights movement in America sparked similar movements around the world. Even to…
AKB48 and Japan’s infatuation with teenage girls as sex symbols
There’s a really good debate sparking on Google Plus talking about AKB48… CNN interviewed the founder of the group, Yasushi Akimoto, and there’s some debate about the issue over on Livedoor. Read on after the break, and follow the linkage if…
Thoughts on Japan and the World 1 Week Later…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW_GD2lX5JQ Ever since the Great Kanto-Tohoku Disaster took place, I have had some things I wanted to say–to explain where I was, what I felt, and how I feel now… It’s taken me a week and some change to make…
Tagged with: jpquake, reflections, soul-searching
Posted in Featured, japan, life, social-issues, video
Posted in Featured, japan, life, social-issues, video
Why the ƒµ¢® can’t Japanese media understand RACISM?!
I mean DAMN. It’s 2011 god-dammit. So why the HELL is this kinda $#¡† on TV here?! This is what happens when you have a population that lives in a WALLED GARDEN…From JapanProbe:[box color=blue] On Monday night’s episode of “Sekai…
If you wanna hire a Non-Japanese, then post in ENGLISH! [RANT]
I’ll probably never be able to get a job at GREE behind this, but this is semi-typical of what I’ve run into here in Japan when looking for jobs in my field (Multimedia/Web/Audio-Video Development) There are these HUGE companies here,…
Ingredients for making The World
http://imgur.com/N00C2 …found on Mark John’s website today… He made this drawing years ago, and the ingredients are the same as they were then. Proof that the best recipes are the classics…
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