Japan!

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Explaining why I haven’t left Japan or even Tokyo: Radiation, Mass Media and more

(translated from my original spanish post)

Before I start, I would like to ask the international news media to stop using the situation in Japan, bloating the facts and making it into entertainment to sell more papers and commercials. � Read the rest

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Tombo – Dragonfly

Today, a dragonfly paid us visit to our office in Shibuya. In Japan, when summer ends and autumn starts to lower the temperature, these mystical four-winged creatures appear and make the Japanese man feel the coming of fall.

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Okinawan Shisa Photo Collection

My wife and I took our 1 year wedding anniversary trip to Naha Okinawa. Thanks to the nikkei scholar's wedding present (travel tickets) and the piled up miles that we had, this trip was almost payed for. As we traveled from south to north of the island, I was able to see many of these beautiful sculptures so that I decided I would take a picture of every Shisa that I saw on our trip.

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The Japan Documentary Awards

This past month the awarding ceremony of the first ever Japan Documentary Festival took place in the Nippon Foundation building lobby in Tokyo, Japan. Anybody could participate and all you had to do is turn in your 10min video for them to upload it to their YouTube page .

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Twitter in Japan

Here in Japan, blogs are a huge part of netizens in Japan, but their way of blogging is very different to the blogging elsewhere since they blog in very short articles. So short, that when tweeter came in, nobody saw the need of it since most of them were already microblogging in their own blog!