September 2007
August 2006
Tokyo Summer
by sevenhelmetsYou know summer has officially hit Japanese shores when you spot the usually impecably suited sarariman carrying his coat slung over his arm, something they normally wouldn’t be caught dead doing. Then you turn around and spot the young mothers with their 2.5 families rushing to catch the train to visit the giant Mouse and all his cronies. Even if you don’t leave your house you’ll get woken up at some ungodly hour because a hoard of semi’s (cicadas) spark up into full song, all in honor of the season. After you’ve finished cursing the little blithers for destroying your idea of a Saturday sleep-in, theres nothing more to do but to make use of the day, and explore......
July 2006
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