Articles tagged with "Japan"
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Posted on: The Offside | 2008-06-24 11:50:33
After over a month of no laser lightshows, and no killer whale mascots, the J League returns to action tomorrow. With the European Championship ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-05-11 06:35:55
Chance Encounter with Zen Priest
Komuso were Zen Buddhist Priests who used to travel about playing the Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute) for meditation and alms. Komuso means "Priest of Nothingness."
I encountered this Komuso while I was in Nagoya.
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-04-19 06:50:14
I went to a wacked-out monthly dance event in Tokyo called Tokyo Decadance where people dress in wild outfits and such.
This guy was a mix of Resident Evil, Predator, Transformers, and Star Wars.
Music by:
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Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-04-12 07:01:39
Tokyo Youtube Gathering at a Hub Pub in Shibuya courtesy of Tokyo Cooney. We talk about Tokyo, Youtube, and our lives which are often intertwined.This is the second half of the Tokyo Youtube Hanami Gathering on March 30, 2008. I missed the first part
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-04-02 11:54:45
Violence, Robots, Cherry Blossoms, and more Violence!It’s a Youtuber Hanami Gathering in Tokyo!
See Youtuber ShotAmerican mercilessly pummel fellow Youtuber TkyoSam repeatedly!!!!
This all came about because Tokyocooney put together Tokyo Youtube
Posted on: a i m l e s s | 2008-03-31 13:36:47
Questions, questions. Prior to leaving I had many. One Mr. Lee verbalized on my arm:
Thankfully, the answer was "Yes."
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I'm having tons of trouble uploading pictures to this blog...
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Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-03-30 08:20:29
Sakura - Japanese Cherry Blossoms have been a part of Japanese culture for over a thousand years. They're the subject of countless poems from waka to haiku.
The Short Happy Life of the Cherry Blossom
This is a photo montage I actually put up a year
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-03-20 09:30:17
Here I face off against the deadly Juhyo - Japanese Monster trees of Mt. Zao - and live to tell the tale!
Juhyo trees are created by snow and ice mixed together by freezing strong Siberian winds that turns them into distorted monsters.
Juhyo Japanes
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-03-16 10:32:51
I went to the Honen-Sai Fertility festival again in the Nagoya area. I bumped into a fellow Youtuber, Gimmeabreakman, who has quite a market share of subscribers and views. He does a number of videos on Japanese culture, language, and on the Youtube com
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-03-13 10:00:13
Here’s a video and blog I did on Dezomeshiki - A firefighting demonstration and parade put on every year by the Tokyo Fire Department. It features the hikeshi - old Japanese firefighters - doing acrobatics on ladders. The girl in the video who helps me
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-03-08 05:27:14
Here’s a video I made last year about St. Patrick’s Day festivities in an Irish Pub in the heart of Tokyo with a brief interlude of Danny Boy being sung at a festival Enka Style.
Blog on St.Patrick's Day:
St. Patrick’s Day Represents Celtic
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-02-27 11:08:14
This is a video asnwering the question that is often asked of people who live in Japan which is basically ”Why do you like Japan?”
Mainly my three reasons:
*History
*Festivals
*Culture
Plus I also like the food, hot sake, and cold Sapporo
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-02-10 10:00:00
Let's say you're Japan. Relations with your huge, powerful neighbor are always a bit strained, but they've become moreso recently since dumplings made by this neighbor sickened your fellow countrymen. (Thousands of people have reported feeling ill, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 | 2008-02-06 10:25:30
It\'s all been very Africa Cup of Nations here on World Cup Blog lately, but turns out there are other continents that play the ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-02-03 11:15:27
Ninja Demonstrate their skills in Iga-Ueno, Japan - the home of Ninja.
For more on Ninja in American Pop Culture see my essay on
"Where ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-02-01 05:54:41
At Tokyo's Kanda Myojin Shrine, Shinto Ritual Participants Cleanse Themselves With Freezing Cold Water in early January.
The ritual is known as misogi.
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-01-31 03:57:39
Last week it snowed briefly in Tokyo on my way to work. I love snow but it doesn’t snow in Tokyo that much any more ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-01-29 07:01:57
The following is a photo montage video of the travels, festivals, and events I experienced in 2007.
I've got photos of sumo, ninja, geisha, samurai, medieval ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-01-26 06:27:37
New Years at a Japanese Temple
Prayers, Fires, and Rice Cakes ring in the New Year at Zojo-ji in Tokyo
Here are some scenes of New Year's ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-01-25 10:49:06
If you thought sumo a sport of slow moving fat guys in thongs engaged in an aggressive shoving match, guess again.
As any follower of ...
Posted on: Roving Ronin Report | 2008-01-25 10:42:55
Coming of Age Day in Japan is a day when gaggles of giggling girls hit the street in their gorgeous kimono with the long-sleeves known ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-01-19 14:00:27
Things to read as you drink your presidential milkshake:
"Let's have Harry Redknapp as a cockney Moses and Martin O'Neill as an Ulster Herod." (Guardian Unlimited)
High school footballers in Utah really, really need sportsmanship meetings. (The ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-01-09 07:00:28
Just last week, the papers in Japan, Scotland and England were all discussing the possibility that standout midfielder and free kicking maestro Shunsuke Nakamura could be on his way back to Japan after many years abroad. He was said to be considering ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-01-03 16:00:42
Things to read with your totally sweet Hello Kitty contacts:
The Unfortunate Torpor Of Newcastle United. (200%)
The baby-centric celebration has gone (another step) too far. (Guardian)
Pato is really, truly going to play. (FIFA.com)
Okada bri ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2007-12-18 09:00:00
During the 2002 World Cup, Philippe Troussier was a hero in Japan. He'd coached the national team for four years, leading them to victory in the 2000 Asian Cup and second-place finish in the 2001 Confederation Cups, and hopes were high that the Frenc ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2007-12-08 14:00:39
You may recall the news from earlier this week that Ivica Osim, one of football's most magnificent characters, is recovering with near-miraculous speed from a stroke he suffered a few weeks ago. Despite his swift recovery, however, Osim -- who is in ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2007-12-05 12:00:47
Ivica Osim, the Bosnian coach of the Japanese national team, suffered a stroke on November 16 and fell into a coma. While he was indisposed, the Japanese Football Association unanimously agreed to replace him with Takeshi Okada, the man who coached t ...
Posted on: Denniblog | 2007-10-25 19:03:07
10/09/2007
JR East run double-decker Shinkansen in and out of Tokyo. They seem to move at various speeds: e.g. the 17:44 Max 218 ...
Posted on: Denniblog | 2007-10-25 16:29:02
10/09/2007
I was glad for the umbrella I bought on the way: at first it'd just looked like a brief shower, but ...
Posted on: Denniblog | 2007-10-23 14:43:16
09/09/2007 (cont.)
The trip to Nikko took five hours, so perhaps leaving that afternoon had been the right decision. Then again, perhaps ...
