I’m certainly having an exciting holiday in Tokyo this year. Sunday saw me experience my first ever earthquake. It happened about 8pm when we were eating dinner in a restaurant in Roppongi Hills. It occurred off the eastern coast of Japan and was magnitude 6.9. Japan has it’s own scale for measuring earthquakes and in [...]
Something I love about the Japanese is there undying love for awesome stuff. I mean, they do cool things just for the sake of doing cool things. Take this for example - a giant replica 1:1 scale RX78 Gundam robot that they built on the man-made island of Odaiba, Tokyo. 59 feet tall and utterly [...]
Seeing as I’m kicking in Japan at the moment, I figured you might like to know about some of the terminology that I may use in future posts.
Otaku (おたく/オタク)
The geeks of Japan, but more extreme. Much more extreme. I often joke to my wife that I’m otaku because I’m, well, a big geek but she [...]
Chances are that when you read this I’ll be flying over Siberia on my way to the Land of the Rising Sun. What crazy foreign adventures await me? Hopefully nothing too crazy as I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks of sun, rest, good food and ultimate geekery as I drag my wife around [...]
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