Jun 1, 20080
Cute as Pie: Salivating Sushi
Some great photos of maki-sushi from toxel.com. Yummy!
Rolling sushi so that the ingredients make a pretty picture is quite an art form. You can see more pictures of scrummy sushi here.
Jun 1, 20082
Hat-tip to Kiwiology
Shouts to the team at Kiwiology for adding this blog to their directory of New Zealand blogs. Ka pai!
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Jun 1, 20084
Japanese Women Lives Undetected in Closet for a Year
I have heard of couch surfing, where people stay on various people’s couches as they travel around, but this story that is doing the rounds takes that to the next level. It appears that a homeless Japanese woman, aged 58, lived for a year undetected in the closet of a Japanese guy in Kasuya, Fukuoka.
Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet
(story source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_re_as/japan_closet_woman )
A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.
May 31, 20080
Boso Peninsula Pictures
Before we left Japan for China, we visited the Boso Peninsula, which is part of Chiba prefecture and forms one side of the entrance to Tokyo Bay. We took the train down from Tokyo through to the Miura Peninsula. Miura Peninsula is the site of the American military base at Yokosuka. From Kurihama on the Miura Peninsula, we took the ferry across the bay (Japanese only site) to the port at Kaneya in Chiba. We visited the Giant Buddha at Nihondera, took the cable car and enjoyed a nice walk around there. We stayed at a little ryokan in Tateyama City. The next day we went around the tip of the peninsula.
It is a nice trip / weekend away from Tokyo. Being vegetarian we didn’t take advantage of the areas bountious seafoods which the peninsula is famous for. We went just after I bought the camera, so some of the photos have a strangely bluish hue to them.
May 31, 20080
Sendai Photos
We went to Sendai a few years ago, and these photos were snapped around the city center. Sendai is the largest city in Tohoku, and is sometimes refered to as the capital of Northern Japan. When I was living in Akita, it seemed like a big city, but after living in Tokyo it seems pretty small. For all that it has a great atmosphere, some wonderful shops and restaurants as well as a highly recommended castle.