Train wreck.
Oh dear.
Posts Tagged ‘japan’
Baby race
Japanese television has its priorities right. No trashy Big Brother, just nice wholesome baby races run with super-cute Japanese babies:
Muji philosophy – corporate Buddhism?
Kenya Hara, creative director of Muji:
Muji was born… to create products designed not to make the shopper feel “I’ve got to have this,” but to inspire the feeling of “this is good enough for me,” because people don’t live only by their desires. The capacity to choose and judge what is “good enough for [...]
Nikko
Two nights ago, I was seized by the sudden inspiration to visit Nikko, a major tourist attraction about three hours north of Tokyo, depending on where you are counting from and which line you take (From where I live, Matsudo, it’s 2 1/2 hours by Joban-sen and Tobu-Nikko-sen). Nikko is an ideal day trip — [...]
Kyoto, Yasukuni, Photos
Lots of new photos, three new batches in fact: Kyoto, Yasukuni Shrine, and Random August and Septmber Shtuff.
Last weekend, I went on my first mini-holiday during my time in Japan, down to the ancient city of Kyoto. The contrast with Tokyo is intense. Tokyo is a city ruthlessly stripped of the pre-modern — an [...]
