I know, I know, I know…but you guys know how I LOVE Spider-Man, so cut me some slack. So, I go to Shinjuku to get my bi-weekly shave and a haircut (2 bits) and guess who I see doing a pole dance in Shinjuku? That’s right, none other than my childhood hero and role model, the [...]
I like this campaign ad! Makes me homesick and proud at the same time. Good luck Kevin!
This conversation took place between me and a student last night in a cafe in Yokohama: Student: So, I have some news. Me: What is it? Student: My company is sending me to New York at the end of August! Me: Really? That’s great news! Student: Is it? Me: Well, yeah. Aren’t you excited? Student: [...]
FADE IN INT. TOMOMI AND JUNICHIRO’S APARTMENT – NIGHT We see a closeup of the same screen shot we faded out from: Can you be more Japanese? Loco’s latest post. We can hear a male voice reading the post aloud and laughing. We pull back, to reveal it’s Junichiro reading aloud from Loco’s blog. JUNICHIRO (Alternating respectively between a high- pitched [...]
When you see NY in movies and on TV it always looks the same…you see the same landmarks, same kind of characters, same hectic rhythm and pace. But, in actuality, NY is a remarkable place in that it is constantly being re-designed. It’s enduring and indefatigable and in a perpetual state of flux, with subtle [...]
I’m not done with trains, yet. I once had a girlfriend…A Jersey girl. In NY, at least for me, Jersey and Jersey girls were exotic…and were easy prey for cool-by-virtue-of-Brooklyn- residence-guys like me. She lived in a a little city called Perth Amboy, a sleepy little town on the Northeast corridor of Jersey, just across the Outerbridge Crossing [...]
まもなく、八番線に各駅停車が参ります。危ないですから黄色い線までおさがりください。 Mamonaku, hachi ban sen ni kakuekiteisya ga mairimasu. Abunai desu kara ki iroi sen made osagari kudasai. Rough Translation: The local train will arrive on track eight shortly . It’s dangerous so please stand behind the yellow line. This is one of the first Japanese phrases I learned upon moving to Japan. Any foreigner living here knows it [...]
Langston Hughes, one of my favorite poets from the Harlem Renaissance, wrote a poem called The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Wanna hear it? Here it goes: I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. [...]
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The age old question enters the mind when one contemplates one aspect of life in Tokyo / Yokohama: The Almighty Station. Go to most any area in Tokyo / Yokohama and you’ll find that the most commercially developed area is the 駅前ekimae (the area in front of and immediately surrounding [...]
Another of my very responsive readers, XO-san, made the following request of me: …How about something on how the design of cities/transportation systems impacts life in Japan and how that compares to NYC? I’ll give it a shot…anything for my loyal readers… Well, the most conspicuous difference in design is this: NY was designed with a [...]
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