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mari diary. what is hot in Japan, what is hot in Tokyo.

Hayao Miyazaki criticises AsoYesterday

Our Prime Mister Aso "Rozen" Taro is well known as manga lover. He doesn't hesitate to tell he likes manga and actually he seems to act like otaku, it maybe to get suppoerts from Akiba-kei. He also trys to give that he has the common touch to people, but it completely failed. Good samples were these : he said the instant ramen cost around 400yen in the interview, but usually it's about 100yen, we hardly find such expensive one. We could guess he doesn't eat such foods or at least he doesn't know price of commodity. In other time, he said he enjoyed "stewed Hokke" (it's a cheap fish) in reasonable izakaya with his friends in school days. But we can't eat stewed Hokke, grill is the only way to eat Hokke. So people guess he had never been to such cheap izakaya. You know, he can't hide this aristocratic bac! kground and he will never be

Rental brother and sisterNovember 19

I picked the ranking of "Pages with the most revisions" of wikipedia. Thank you for many comments and most said I don't need to be embarrassed :-) I found a foreign message board to discuss about it. Some said they don't think Americans care about Bush, hmm I am not sure but I guess at least Bush is a good toy for some Americans including my friends. :-)

I read this article "rental one-san (rental sister) and rental oni-san (rental brother)". It's a rehab support system for hikikomori people, some person visits a hikikomori person and communicates with this hikikkomori person as if they are his/her blood brother. They had a lecture meeting and one guy talked about his experience. He did hikikomori for 5 years. During that 5 years, he just did games, sleep and drink every day without going out from his room. But one day a rental one-san visited his room and

Pages with the most rewrites in wikiNovember 18

Karesansui is Japanese rock garden. The garden depicts nature with a shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks. The most famous garden is in Ryonaji. Nifty portalz has this post about making a Karesansui garden with foods. Hmm, silly but I like it.

This is funny! A ranking of "Pages with the most revisions" of wikipedia.Here is the ranking of English pages.
No1. George W. Bush
No2. Wikipedia
No3. United States
No4. Jesus
No5. 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict
Hmm There are a lot of politics, war and religion issues. We can say they are American (mainly I guess) people's interests, right?

Then here is the ranking of French pages. (I linke

Fujiya & MiyagiNovember 17

This is a UK band and their music video is very unique with dice. Their band name is "Fujiya & Miyagi Ankle Injuries". Fujiya and Miyagi sound Japanese, I am wondering why they pick such names. :-)

I found this post "Vending machines craze in Japan". Sometiems I picked Japanese vending machine too. It's convenient, but also it spoiles the scenery, I hope we make some cotril low.

It's chilly SundayNovember 16

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kawaiiiiiiiiiiii!!! I almost die for moe for those Chimp and White tiger photos.

I really enjoy this stair porn. I realized my Japanese identity because I was hooked to Japanese designer's architechers very well. :-) Which stairs is good for you?

They are Brasilisn Nissin Cup Noodels ads. The copy is "Cup Noodles. Genuine Japanese fast food". Hmm that's okay but those mosterers are pretty fake. First one would be Godzilla, the second one would be Kanegon, the third one would be Alien Baltan, the las one would be Gomola. Well I must tell you I am i