Online Tokyo Club Event Listings
Recently my friend asked me for info on where he can find a drum & bass event in Tokyo. Personally I’m more into trance. Anyway, here are three good sites for checking what’s playing in Tokyo clubs and when.
http://higherfrequency.iflyer.jp/tokyo/
http://www.clubberia.com/Club/List/
http://clubtune.jp/search.php Lets you search the listings by genre, etc. Nice touch.
As for venues, personally my favorites are [...]
Renting an apartment in Japan: expenses, guarantors, and prejudice
Let me start with a little background for anyone who is not familiar with the Japanese real estate system and what it’s like to find housing in Tokyo. First, let me discuss the fees. Before you can move into an apartment here, you will need to pay up front about 6-8 months of rent. Some [...]
Quick tips for visiting Japan
Recently a couple of my friends have been asking for tips on what to see and to when visiting Japan. I decided to gather a few of my responses and post them here, so I can just give out this web page to people.
Feel free to add your own suggestions! This is by no means [...]
Thoughts on the success of Yahoo and Google in Japan…
Recently I was forwarded this article from TechCrunch: Why Yahoo Japan is Worth Nearly as Much as Yahoo. It is worth a read, but I’d like to add a few thoughts. Here is my experience with Yahoo Japan, since having moved to Tokyo in 2001.
1) YahooBB
YahooBB took off because it was simply cheaper than [...]
Nobody sleeps like the Japanese do
Apparently there is a Facebook group to post photos of people sleeping in crazy or uncomfortable looking positions in Japan… This is actually a really good idea. The group is called simply, “Nobody sleeps like the Japanese do.”
Here are a few pictures which I have taken recently, and another which was recently posted on JapanToday.
Why [...]
Pendre shorts - fundoshi loincloth for women - the next trend in Japan?
A friend of mine just forwarded this post on JapanProbe about women’s fundoshi. My quickest description of a fundoshi would be traditional Japanese g-string loincloth underwear for men. According to Wikipedia:
Before World War II the fundoshi was the main form of underwear for Japanese adult males; however it went out of use quickly after the [...]
How Japanese search engines work (actual commercial for Goo search engine)
Sometimes you’ve got to love Japanese commercials.
Tokyo Internet speed ranking from Speedtest.net
Speedtest.net has put aggregated statistics for all people using its Internet speed test service - pretty cool. You can view the speed test results from anyone, anywhere in the world. Check out the speed data for ISPs from Tokyo. I’m on USEN which currently tops the upload speeds at 17571kb/s, and is ranked near the [...]