I am here to confirm that to blow $5K on anime merch is actually easy if you stay there for a couple of weeks or more. Also of note is the trick of shipping the purchases.
read moreMainichi reports that visitors are banned from the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo for a month (via).
While the auctions are technically off-limits to spectators, auctioneers have informally allowed people to watch from a designated area of the auction hall. With many taking flash photography or touching the produce, however …read more
I wish to know how they find arcades (I've not seen even one, unlike manga cafes), and what is the secret of taking pictures off a TV. Mine always were abysmal as I struggled with the dark stripes left by the CRT scan. Taking pictures of plasma screens helps, I …
read moreAn e-mail from reader Jeff Chuang regarding To Heart omake 6 made me look at a YouTube video of Drifters, which had the following still in it:
I always took for an article of faith that the only Japanese fighter with an inline engine was Ki-61. So what is that …
read moreMoe-moe Lab posts an account on a trip by car. Standard complaints about lane changes without a signal included. I seriously considered renting a car too, but I thought it would be a bridge too far for my first trip. But looks like nothing tinsurmountable...
read moreAs I mentioned before, Japanese were trying to build an "economical" rocket (same way French plan to launch Soyuz to supplement their exising big rocket). Now Daily Yomiuri says that the project is essentially dead:
read moreDue to conflicting interests among politicians, bureaucrats and business leaders, the recommendation to scrap the …
Prompted by RIUVA, I found an article and Yomiuri:
The new law emphasizes the development and utilization of space, based on the U.N. Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the deployment of nuclear and other arms in space, as well as on the defense-only principles of the Constitution.
The Outer …
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