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Should I revamp this site? Start it all over again? Focus it on the things I'm interested in? like business, politics, environment, etc?After 5 years in Japan, I decided it was about time to leave. For the moment, I have plenty of time, and I could continue with some of my hobbies... photography, writing, business...I'm starting all over again, and although there are many opportunities, and I'm

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Another delayed post, but better later than never, as the saying goes. I know I'm diverting my original plan of blogging here, but there is something I have to write about.As some of you may remember, on May I co-hosted a welcome party for the new foreign students in Wakayama University. I was one of the M.C. at the event. I also helped to set the schedule of the performances taking place during

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Last week, the governor of Wakayama Prefecture resigned from the Prefectural Office on corruption charges. He is tied to construction illicit businesses. Yesterday morning, the third person in the hierarchy of this construction company who was in charge of money collection, a 71-year-old man committed suicide in the Nankai railway, just where the students cross it when taking the shortcut on

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As part of sharing with you the cultural Japan, and not precisely the traditional culture; I will now make a quick insight into the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival taking place from October 20-29th in Tokyo. I watched the red carpet opening ceremony direct from my satellite channel on Saturday October 21st. I felt good since I know where it took place. I suppose people who live in Los

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It's been 2 years since I fist came to Japan. I've already gotten used to a lot of stuff. When I see newcomers stunning in awe at the things that Japan unveils to our eyes, I look in retrospection and see myself in their astonishment.I enjoy seeing their ingenuity. It's like the innocence of a child to me. I'm a little ahead in their discovery of Japan, so I'm now immune to notice details, since

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Well, the second semester has finally started... 後期です。I took 5 lectures for this semester, plus my 2 seminars (M1 and M2).* I'm very busy again yet thrilled. However, I still take some time out of my schedule to upload my daily picture in my fotolog, and to update my blogs every day and after.I received the score for the 1st semester last week. I got all the credits I went for and pretty much

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A great deal I think on the future of women at the top will depend on how I do... I do know I could do an awful lot for women at the top and for women trying to get to the top and for the acceptance of women, for their talents, and abilities." Margaret Thatcher.Former Prime Minister of Great BritainThe United Nations convened "The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development

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お久しぶりです。 It's been a while since I last posted an article here. I've been busy posting in my blog in Spanish.My kenkyushitsu (research students room) mates organized a nomikai set as of yesterday. I was looking forward to taking active part in common activities with them. I missed the summer camp in early August and really wanted to sharing leisure time with them. We are always in the

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I just wanted to call your attention to this special report published on September 11, 2006 by Neewsweek magazine.The New Face of Japan. Foreigners are not only coming, they're staying.Here is the link to the electronic issue of the article.There are still things to talk about...

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yessss!!! I've got my brand new dictionary!I was looking for a dictionary that I could be able to write kanji and know the yomikata (way of reading the kanji). I went to Yodabashi Camera in Umeda and the only one able to write kanjis is the Chinese dictionary. I took a Canon brochure and then asked my professor of Japanese for his advice, according to what I was looking for. The one I wanted was

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I knew I wanted to go to Tokyo for a change. I studied hard from April to August and survived the reports nightmare. I was desperately needing a brake. I didn't want to spend too much money on my journey, since I'm going to Vietnam beginning of September and need the money for my other adventure (this time I'm travelling on my own! ouch).I made up my mind about when going to Tokyo pretty much

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Japan is a world on its own. Nature, temples, festivals, skyscrapers, bullet train. Everything co-exist in harmony in the same space. There are so many realities here. From the Buddhist monk and pilgrims, to the Shibuya girls and gothic Harajuko.A matsuri is a traditional festival. To tourists, witnessing a matsuri may be the high point of their trip to Japan. To locals it means a festival to

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Why am I not surprised it's raining again? Why am I not surprised that when I came back from picking up my laundry this mid day it was all right, and five minutes later, I go out and it's raining cats and dogs? Why am I not surprised? Why have the rainy season not ended yet? It is supposed to have been finished... I went to meet a friend, and then to do some shopping I couldn't postpone any more.

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I live in a quite neighbourhood, in a pretty high area, according to what I've been recently told. I like the idea of "pretty high", in case of floods (let's not call worse catastrophes). At night, I hear something that I've now decided is an old (possibly) woman coughing. At the beginning, I was not sure if that sound came from a human being or another being (a dog was my first assumption). It

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The subject of my picture today might sound weird to you.I believe this is the spider season in Japan. We are still during tsuyu time (rainy season). Everyday I bike to school, like many other Japanese students. As the university is on top of a hill, I take a shortcut and park my bike in the base of the hill and walk up the path to school. Should I say that I climb that hill? It's bloody hard,

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In spite of having a lot of reports and presentations deadlines for my university lectures, I couldn't help but not missing the Summer Festival at my friend's kindergarten on Saturday July 1st.We are still in the rainy season, but even though, the weather was nice (last year they had to cancel it due to the rain). It was fantastic! It remind me soooo much of the Kirmes our school used to held

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The ceremony for the 5th MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2006 took place in Tokyo on June 17th. The place was The First Yoyogi, National Sports Gymnasium, Shibuya, Tokyo (国立代々木競技場第一体育館（東京都渋谷区神南）).The winners are:Best Male Video平井堅 - POP STARBest Female Video倖田來未 - ButterflyBest Group VideoDef Tech - KONOMAMABest New Artist VideoRihanna - Pon De ReplayBest Video of the Year 倖田來未 - Sitting,

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==================================2003 - It's not a trick, it's a Sony.2003 - You make it a Sony.2001 - Go create.1988 - It's a Sony.==================================Sony was founded in 1946 by Masaru Ibuka (1908~1997) and Akio Morita (1921~1999). They started their business in a Tokyo department store with approximately 20 employees and initial capital of 190,000 yen.They complemented each

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It's been raining cats and dogs!Today, the weather forecast announced the beginning of the rainy season in kansai area.In early summer, most parts of Japan get visited by a rainy season, the so called tsuyu (梅雨), literally meaning "plum rain", because it coincides with the season of plums ripening.The rainy season is caused by the collision of cold northerly and warm southerly air masses, which

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I live far from home. I also have friends scattered around the Globe. Communication is an issue.I use MSN Messenger, Yahoo messenger, Skype, and Google Talk (although I haven't download it to my new laptop yet).Today I was introduced to a new application called　'damaka' (www.damaka.com). The person who told me about it states it's lot more powerful in terms of voice and video chat than regular IM

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Coca-Cola Advertising Slogans Through the Twentieth Century1904 - Delicious and refreshing1905 - Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains1906 - The Great National Temperance Drnk1917 - Three Million a Day1922 - Thirst Knows no Season1925 - Six Million a Day1927 - Around the Corner from Everywhere1929 - The Pause that Refreshes1932 - Ice-cold Sunshine1938 - The Best Friend Thirst Ever Had1939 - Coca-Cola

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The world cup has started. I missed the open ceremony, but won't miss the final. Uruguay didn't make it this time, but this is the team I strongly support: 'a verde e amarela'. You can check the results on http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/

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Hola a todos,Hoy inauguro mi blog. Hoy, que decidi tomarme el dia... Al fin, no todo es estudio y responsabilidad. Decidi fingir demencia por un dia, y postergar un dia de fiebre y malestar en casa.Si les parece que no hace sentido lo que escribo, es el proceso de maduracion de ideas en el que estoy.Para mitigar un poco la abstraccion en la que vivo, voy a comenzar este blog con un poema de una

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