Japanese Pictures, Culture and People

Just a quickie to draw attention to the fact that The Artists Web is now in japanese.
You can find it under the name アーティストウェブ which reads ‘artist web’ in japanese.
Happy clicking!

Just a quick heads up for anyone wanting to learn Kite Surfing, Kite Boarding who’s based in the Tokyo area. Long Island Kitesurfing School in Miura Kaigan has got to be the way to go. It’s nice safe and quite sandy beach, water is safe and the train station (which is just under an hour […]

You may recognise the ’san’ (さん) I added to the end of your name, the
closest we have to this in English is ‘Mr’ or ‘Ms/Miss/Mrs’, it’s a
polite suffix. You may not know that one cannot refer to oneself using ’san’
e.g.

Hi I’m Chris San - wrong
Hi I’m Chris - right

Japanese companies also have a similar suffix […]

Some good friends of mine put on an event called machi machi and invited me to be one of the “Artistes”. They also put on an event last year when I had just arrived here, it was a great night and full of entertainment.
This year though, they’d clearly moved up a step in event management […]

So I’d like to get my greasy mitts on a japnese smart phone. One contender is the sofbank x01t.com

Here’s a nice view on a particularly clear day from my roof. Sorry the sound is inaudible, but I can’t be arsed to edit the video. I’m mumbling something about how far away Mount Fuji is, it’s something like 60miles or more. Then as I point the camera at the train station I mention something […]

So I’ll Skimp on the waffle today, suffice to say I found a good place to Kite Surf near Toyko.
Useful Links

Places to Kiteboard in Japan on Kitebeaches.com
Kitesurfing Shop
Long Island, Miurakaigan

Live wind report for Tokyo region http://www6.kaiho.mlit.go.jp/yokohama/kisyou/

Kiteboarding on the nice flat water in Miurakaigan!

So you’re the proud owner of a brand new, clean and trendy MacBook (White). Not for Long.
Unless, your body is permanently coated with a thin film of plastic or other petrochemical derivative, your beautiful new mistress will become soiled with greasy marks after a few weeks of useage. These inevitable greasy marks are somehow overlooked […]

I recently made a work visa application in Japan and I thought it might be useful to document the process as in doing so, I gleaned much information from various lawyers and the shinagawa (tokyo) immigration bureau.
Overview

I am from the UK and originally came to Japan as a tourist and didn’t initially plan to extend […]