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  • Darth Vader based on Sendai Samurai ruler!
    August 31st, 2009By drifter
    Hollywood’s infamous dark knight took its inspiration from none other than Samurai legend, Date Masamune. While many people may have assumed Darth Vader’s ultimate evil persona was based on Dick Cheney, according to the City of Sendai homepage, it was its own larger than life shadowy ruler. Before the 1977 release of Star Wars, which » Continue Reading
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  • Tanabtaaaaaah!
    August 24th, 2009By jesp
    The Tanabata festival is a celebration of two sexy stars. Not the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie kind of sexy star duo, but actual sparkly, twinkly, big old spheres of gas stars. So legend has it, cloth weaving Orihime (the star known as Vega) and cow herding Hikoboshi (the star known as Altair) fell madly in love » Continue Reading
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  • Gayjin
    August 3rd, 2009By jesp
    I come from Cardiff, a city in Wales, UK with a very lively and popular gay scene. It isn’t a large city, but there are numerous bars and clubs that have the rainbow flag flying above the door, and there’s a gay and lesbian Mardi Gras each year which is attended by thousands of people; » Continue Reading
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  • Ice Hockey Alive and Well(?) in Japan
    April 13th, 2009By drifter
    photo credit: tata_aka_T Many transplanted hockey fans such as myself, thought they would be forced to give up their passion when they crossed the pond to live in Japan. Perhaps Japan’s best kept secret is that an entire hockey culture exists just below the radar of mainstream media. A couple years ago on a humid » Continue Reading
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  • Green Pieces
    April 13th, 2009By ToraTora
    For foreigners, Japan seems quite often to be a place of paradoxes. Contradictory values seem to hit us in the nose every time we set foot in a populated, densely packed area. More people means more advertising, and in modern Japan, where the product dictates life and consumer value seems to be the prevailing ideology, » Continue Reading
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  • Molested!
    February 18th, 2009By jesp
    There’s nothing that lifts my spirits quite like a walk around the local mall. If I’ve had a bad day, I don’t head for a vanilla/chocolate deluxe at the ice-cream stall, or even the crocodile bash game at the arcade, no I make a b-line for the t-shirt rails. What’s so » Continue Reading
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  • I don’t have the legs for Japanese fashion
    January 26th, 2009By jesp
    photo credit: tata_aka_T Every woman is conscious of her body at some point in the day, it’s natural. Blemish free images of washboard stomachs and legs that go on forever are wherever we look in the West; magazines, television, billboard adverts, we can’t escape those niggling anxieties ‘I bet I wouldn’t » Continue Reading
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