Here’s a video displaying a Japanese person’s amazing work to create a “pop-up” book of the Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku-ji) in Kyoto, created out of Lego’s. The diorama aspects are amazing enough but add to this that this “book” has a cover as well with an image out of the same Lego blocks
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Like Darts? Head to Tokyo.
October 19th, 2009 
AstroNerdBoy If you are a dart player, Tokyo is the place to be apparently. There’s a new Taito Darts Stadium in Ikebukuro and it is filled with online ranked darts machines. I’m not sure if there’s anything like this in the U.S. (I’ve never seen such a place to play darts but that doesn’t mean one
I Want This Logo On an Official T-Shirt!
September 29th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy My friend GC recently had to take a couple of business trips to Japan. He brought back a bottle of Pocari Sweat to give to me (which I’ve got to get still). My plan is to bring this to work and share the love with my co-workers, all of whom have heard me spoken about
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Ibaraki Prefecture’s Satoyama Life
September 29th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy The amazing thing about the Internet is that while researching something, one can stumble onto something else and get lost for a while exploring this new place on the web one has discovered. In this case, I was looking into engawa (the veranda/porch areas of Japanese homes that are sometimes enclosed) when I came across
Chiba Drift Racers Arrested After 193rd Race
September 19th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy So while I’m taking a break from playing the old school “Starflight 2” and procrastinating from anime and manga blogging, I read this article from Japan Today about how six people were arrested in the Chiba Prefect for drift racing. No big deal, right? Then I read this. Since January, the group of six has
The Japanese Woman and the Purse Snatcher
September 15th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy This is an older video that was only recently brought to my attention of a Japanese woman in an elevator and a man who attempts to snatch her purse. The video is most likely staged, but that’s not the point. When I saw this, I immediately thought of one of the Full Metal Panic
The Latest Japanese Cafe — The Cat Cafe
July 3rd, 2009 AstroNerdBoy The Latest Japanese Cafe — The Cat Cafe So you are in Japan and want to go to a cafe. Unfortunately a maid cafe doesn’t seem like something you’d like and a cosplay cafe just isn’t your cup of tea. However, you do love cats. Well are you ever in luck — Cafe Calico is
Time for men-only train cars in Japan?
June 19th, 2009 AstroNerdBoy Time for men-only train cars in Japan? I got a chuckle out of this Reuters article about how the fear of being accused as a groper/molester on trains in Japan is supposedly starting to bring about a call for male-only train cars. Thanks to legitimate groping/molesting incidents on trains, rush hour in Japan already sees
