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Following up on a survey I found via What Japan Thinks related to Asian women’s attitudes to beauty, I found a larger survey conducted in 2004, The Real Truth About Beauty (.pdf file, 48 pages), that looked at perceptions of what beauty means among 10 countries, Japan being one of them (and the only Asian [...]

No, this isn’t one of the signs I see when I take my dog walks, nor did I even take this photo. I lifted it from the Mainichi Daily News website, the English online presence of the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun. The MDN is using the photo to accompany their headline story, “Only 30 percent [...]

I’ve started a new photo series, only a few days old at this point, but perhaps if some folks start to look at it I’ll feel compelled to keep at it. It’s called Inu to sanpo, which is Japanese for “walking the dog.” These are pictures I’m snapping of the neighborhood, taken as I walk [...]

Jeremy at Antipixel posted an image of a corrugated tin house in his neighborhood, and waxed somewhat lyrical about this material therein (and in the comments). I mentioned in his comments that until I started to pay a bit of attention to my neighborhood last year (ironically occassioned by some of Jeremy’s writings about Japanese [...]

Today, March 13, 2003, marks 1 year that I have lived in Japan. Wow. I can say with confidence that never before has a year in my life passed so quickly as this last year did. I have no idea where it went! When Naoko and I left San Francisco on March 12, 2002, naturally [...]

Mark from Mark City has put together a brief Being Vegetarian in Japan guide. Of course, as everyone constantly reminds me of, I’m no longer a “real” vegetarian as I eat fish, but I’m sure this will come in handy none-the-less, and may for you too.