Hokuriku Junior High School

I helped teach a short English program this past summer at a junior high school in Fukui prefecture. The program was videotaped and later shown on the news. Here are the highlights.

This is Japan

The following video was made using more than 2700 photos from one person's trip to Japan.

I made a similar video earlier this year documenting my first 5 years in Japan, if you haven't seen mine you can check it out here.

Source

Greetings from the Philippines

Panglao


Philippine Tarsier











Chocolate Hills

Cebu


Philippine Flying Lemur

Japanese Wooden Car

Japanese wood crafters Sada-Kenbi have built a street legal car almost entirely out of wood. The car seats up to three passengers, has a maximum speed of roughly 56 mph and is currently on sale in Japan for about $44,000.

Via Sada-Kenbi

Monday - Itabashi

Kitakata-ya in Itabashi






raw horse



Sake with the master

土曜日 - 新宿 / Saturday - Shinjuku

Small Black- Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)

金曜日 - 下北沢

Ski feat. Mos Def - Taxi

1987 Nike Delta Force AC

I just picked these up on Yahoo! Auctions Japan. Unworn in the original box from 1987.

Elevator Musik - Curren$y

Hudson Mohawke - Fuse

Props to Elliott

Nestled House

Nestled House is a private residence in Tokyo, Japan designed by Milligram Architectural Studio. This house has won the 2008 International Architecture Award for The Best New Global Design awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.








via Design Year Book

The Ranger$ Jerkin in JerkVille.

If you don't want to watch all the talking at the beginning just fast forward to when the music starts at the 1:11 mark.

High School Speeches

This is the last batch of speeches from Japanese high school students that I have saved up. Click on the photos to enlarge.

Bluefin Tuna Kayak Fisherman

Article in the NY Times about this guy who fishes for monster bluefin tuna out of his kayak. Check it out here

Rollin' High with Mike Giant for TOTT Global

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Omodaka - Plum Song

Man commits suicide after disappearance of prized bull semen stocks

IKI, Nagasaki -- Both the prefecture and the Japan Agricultural Cooperative (JA) branch here are investigating after some 1,300 tubes of prized bull semen went missing and a person connected with the material committed suicide.

A prefectural inquiry discovered the frozen semen -- valued at 1,220-510 yen per tube for a total loss of about 1.5 million yen -- was missing in August, and JA Iki has set up a special investigative committee to try and shed light on the disappearance.

Read the full story here

Don't Believe The Hype