Tag: Tokyo

  • Prelude to WWIII / 第三次世界大戦の序章

    Prelude to WWIII / 第三次世界大戦の序章

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 The second year of the Reiwa period began with a nightmare. More precisely, at the beginning of the year, nobody could predict what would be going on just two months later. I am talking about what the entire world is fighting against—COVID-19. The coronavirus outbreak has been an urgent global issue. It was just…

  • I’m back!

    Apologies for not updating my blog since I did on the first day of this year. I’m usually on Facebook these days. One of what I did this year is that I moved out of my house at Fukagawa. The rental contract was expiring at the end of July, and I had to choose whether…

  • I did it! / やった!

    That was very good. I love it!最高にうまかったよ。また食べたいな~。

  • Kiyosumi Garden

    Today I went for a walk to Kiyosumi Garden, within a 15-minute walk from my house, because it was a sunny Japanese Thanksgiving Day and I wanted to get out of my house. These are photos. They make me feel at ease. The rest are uploaded on Flickr.

  • Events at Kiba Park / 木場公園のイベントたち

    Kiba Park is within a few minutes’ walk from my house. Various events are performed almost every week.家の近所の木場公園では、毎週のように何かしらイベントが行われています。 Two weeks ago there was Oedo mikoshi matsuri (mikoshi festival) with tens of mikoshis.2週間前には、「大江戸神輿祭り」があって、おみこしたちがいーっぱいでした。 And, Koto Kumin Matsuri (Koto Ward citizens’ festival) was hold last weekend. There were many booths where staff members sold foods and items…

  • Moving out to Fukagawa

    Last month I was very busy with moving out of my house at Nerima-ku, Tokyo, because I had thrown my own car in May and I wanted to live where it was closer to downtown Tokyo and more convenient to live with public transportation only. As I got a bonus in June and I had…

  • A really sick country / 病んだ国ニッポン

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 Japan is turning into a really sick country. According to media, a 25-year-old man this afternoon hit the people walking on the streets at Akihabara with his truck, jumped out of it and stabbed the people there at random with his survival knife, causing death to as many as seven people until now. The…

  • Anime festival / ねりたんアニメプロジェクト

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 The town of Nerima, Tokyo, where I live for seven years, is home to Japanese animation, or anime. Nerima has had one of the biggest anime studios, Toei Animation Company, as well as more than 90 intensive anime-related companies since Japan’s first anime film was aired in 1958. World’s famous animes such as Dragon…