Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Like most of us these days, I spend an inordinate amount of time in front of my computer even though this is by no means my favourite place to be… but it’s not all bad either! Here are 5 websites that I visited this week that reminded […]
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Trip Feedback through Haiku Poetry
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! As with all of the InsideJapan Tour leaders, Steve Parker brings his own skills, knowledge and expertise to a group tour of Japan. A trip across Japan with Steve never fails to be inspiring, but our man has been bringing out the poetic side of travellers….after a […]
Tokyo Game Show – Gamer 2
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! I always knew something was wrong with me. During childhood already, classmates would laugh at me because my pastimes were somewhat different from a “normal” boy. When I reached teenage years, mom and dad couldn’t deny anymore when they saw the sort of friends I used to bring back […]
A visit to the Ghibli Museum
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! The director Hayao Miyazaki has been called `the god of anime` and `Japan`s most successful film-maker`. He`s been compared to Walt Disney, has won an Oscar and has even earned the respect of my two nieces. Yet he is not well-known in the UK or US. Like this post? Help us by sharing […]
Save Japan with super kawaii T-Shirts from Uniqlo
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! Check out these great T-shirts from Uniqlo. The company will donate approximately 100 million yen (£750,000) from the sales of these T-shirts to the Japanese Red Cross who are helping recovery efforts in Tohoku. Like this post? Help us by sharing it!
Japan on film
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! As a big Japan fan, I love it when something Japanese pops up in my favourite TV shows or films. Earlier this week I saw Inception at the cinema – a fantastic psychological thriller set in a world of dreams within dreams, with lavish cinematography to match. […]
Like this post? Help us by sharing it! As a big Japan fan, I love it when something Japanese pops up in my favourite TV shows or films. Earlier this week I saw Inception at the cinema – a fantastic psychological thriller set in a world of dreams within dreams, with lavish cinematography to match. […]