It seems that there is a general trend in Japan, one which frowns upon such flavours as original.. The focus instead is a world of mind-bending imagination where any possible flavour combination will be accepted without question.
This is of course a well known phenomena to those of us with an active interest in Japan, but despite this, for the benefit of those sets of eyes perusing this site which were not previously aware of this curious activity, I'll share my experiences! (more...)
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02/11/2009 | (Comments)
The following set of photographs of my favourite city in Japan (so far), Arashiyama is [...]
30/10/2009 | (Comments)
It is coming, the inevitable will happen and it will start right here in Japan! [...]
29/10/2009 | (Comments)
Tonight, I had a very pleasant evening out with a girl who has quickly become [...]
28/10/2009 | (Comments)
In Japan at the moment there is a regular TV ad for Clear Asahi, showing [...]
24/08/2009 | (Comments)
So there hasn’t been a great deal of activity on this blog for the past [...]
10/07/2009 | (Comments)
Today I re-read Inazo Nitobe’s Bushido in preparation for writing up my application for independent [...]
09/07/2009 | (Comments)
One somewhat congested evening in the midst of a major traffic jam on a highway [...]
04/07/2009 | (Comments)
Through the eyes of this samurai otaku there was, and indeed is no finer director [...]
01/07/2009 | (Comments)
Way back in April 2006 myself and a couple of friends visited Japan for approximately [...]
Lifestream
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Jon thanks everyone for the multitude of birthday greetings! I had at least one beer for each message by way of a thanks :).
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February 4th |
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Jon ah the benefits of insomnia.. potentially 0 sleeps until Sapporo!
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February 3rd |
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Jon Go to Urbandictionary.com and lookup your name...post this msg as your status and comment what your name means!
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Jon Call to Arms 2: Okayama Naked Man festival.. apparently there is a 100,000 yen prize from a local newspaper.. and I have a winning strategy.. just need more volunteers for our team. We can win!
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February 2nd |
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Jon Call to Arms: Looking for Male gaijin to enter the Okayama Naked Man festival as a team.. lets bring this home for the visitors! Let me know if you fancy it.
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Jon S A P P O R O ! ! ! ! 3 days..
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February 1st |
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Listened to 14 songs.
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January 31st |
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Listened to 12 songs.
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Jon Dear Monday through Thursday, let's co-operate amicably this week and have no dwelling in the limelight.. If you deliver me to Friday promptly and unscathed then I promise to show you more attention next week.
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January 30th |
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Listened to 32 songs.
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Jon is almost always backwards at coming forwards, and therein lies the problem.
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Jon Dear Fanta.jp, kindly explain how a mixture of apple, cherry, peach, plum and pear juices with carbonated saccharine water is Hip Hop.
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Jon Sapporo in 6 days.. hypothermia in 6 days, 2 hours.. bring it on!
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January 29th |
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Jon is trying to save money by staying in and renting a movie.. only he'd really prefer to be in the pub and therefore is struggling to find any film that interests him.
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Jon has had a Drifters song stuck in his head all day, how random!
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