Lost In Japan

I received a piece of Japanese candy (“okashi” or “wagashi” in Japanese) today which had this wonderful English text on the package:

The spirit of OKASHI. It is what gives a peaceful and pleasant mind to the human race. All the time, man seeks romance in the OKASHI. We have been working hard and carefully, and [...]

…at least that must be the case, since I only scored 6 out of 10 correct in National Geographic’s Tokyo Quiz.
It started out easy, and my being full of conceit, thought to myself that this is will be a walk in the Ueno Park so to speak; but no… They really threw some difficult questions [...]

The best commercials on Japanese TV recently are the coffee commercials, in my opinion (that is, if you don’t include the Softbank commercials, of course, since they are in a class by themselves)
Lately, two coffee brands stand out; JT Roots and Georgia.　
Here’s my current favorite JT Roots commercial:

I don’t think I need to explain or [...]

I just realized, after opening up the front page of this site, that is looks a bit weird in Internet Explorer 7…
The left border is placed far too much to the left; like this:

I got to be honest, I had completely missed that. I strictly use Firefox on my own PC, and only IE7 at [...]

If there is still anyone reading this (I wouldnt blame you if you didn’t, looking at my past record of, oh, 1 post every 3 months) I would like to update you on some changes which have kept me busy the last few months…
I’ve moved from Ota-ku　（大田区）:

to Setagaya-ku　（世田谷区）:

If you’re not familiar with Tokyo’s geography, Ota-ku [...]