The R3dragon’s Blog

Today I made a movie called Isogashii (“Busy” in Japanese). I uploaded it to the blog through google video…
(High-Speed internet needed to watch it)

hope you like it…
If you really want to know: This is actually an assignment from my dad who asked me to go and take pictures of Japanese people. I [...]

I thought I’d do a three or four part series on Japanese culture (or bunka 文化） based on my observations thus far.
I want to start with materialism because it’s so noticeable here. From the minute you step off the plane, you’re immersed in a sea of advertising, marketing, fashion trend magazines, as well as the [...]

The calm before the storm as they say… Have a look at the ole “tenki yohō” (weather report) for Sapporo.

(Source: GOO2006 NTT Resonant Inc. )

11月28日（火）(Nov. 28th: Tuesday)

Tuesday: Mostly sunny but in the evening the snow begins! It’s predicted to be 3 degrees C with 1mm of snow and a 72% humidity.
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While I have been here, I’ve tried my hand at some “photography art.” They’re nothing special, just experiments with my camera and free software on the net.
When you’re checking them out, know that I’m just using a $100 digital camera and Picasa2 from Google.com.
enjoy!
~J out
(you can see them in my web album)

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I know it’s not a problem for Sapporo to snow hard and to generate a lot of snow, but lately these snow “flurries” that melt off the next day are frustrating for people like me who want a good snow shot.
Without the snow, Hokkaido University looks kind of creepy… I was looking at pics from [...]

These are pics of campus before and after the snow. Cool ‘eh? Yeah… the landscape is changing day by day. Soon it’ll all look like this! Tomorrow is Saturday and if the weather continues to be this cold, I plan to revisit Hokkaido University and take round 2 of Hokkaido “snow” pics.
~J out

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My apologies for being lazy… I’ve been meaning to write these next couple of posts for some time.

Last Saturday was a big “Congratulations” parade to the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters Baseball team. The parade was celebrating a great run that ended in First ever National League Championships for the hams. The [...]

I love Japan for their services, however, Japan is really all business but good business. Here’s what happened…
About two weeks ago my eletronic dictionary that I got September 11th broke. By “broke” I mean that it didn’t turn on. I thought it was the batteries so I went and got some and put them in [...]

Hey Everybody!
Last night after kendo a friend and I decided to check out “Shin-Sapporo Station” opposite from Odori and Susukino where we usually go on a friday night. Shin-Sapporo is the station that I usually either ride my bike to or take the bus on my commute to school. It’s a fairly big station, because [...]

Ok here’s the skinny:
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.1 hits Etorofu Island off Hokkaido of northern Japan. The earthquake struck at 8:15 p.m. Tokyo time at a depth of 30 kilometers near Russia’s Kuril Islands, the Japanese meteorological agency said.
The tsunami was likely to hit the eastern part of the Pacific [...]