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This sounds like the craziest game idea.. a post apocalyptic Tokyo, populated by various animals you to control and pit against each other. It’s like the developers took the assets of Afrika and Yakuza 3, mashed them together and made a game! What’s next? God of Kamurocho? Would be awesome to see Kratos beating street [...]

Meant to post about this a while ago but hey, better late than never!

Scouring my photo collection, i’ve come up with a final few amusing Janglish signs for your pleasure, enjoy!

Meet Claude, he’s an 8 year old Bear who currently lives in Asa Zoo, Hiroshima. He could seriously kick your ass. Unrelated: WordPress 3… ooooooooo…..

A while ago I posted a collection of amusing examples of Janglish I came across during my Japan adventures, time for some more!

Rejigged my original Time Lapse Kyoto footage.. bumped up the saturation and added some lens blur to turn it into a moving tiltshift! Pretty happy with how this turned out, i’d recommend checking it out over on youTube for the high resolution version!

Back here in the UK, building any kind of addition onto your home involves a ton of paperwork and red tape. By the looks of thing in Japan all you need is a few bits and pieces from your local hardware store and a bit of time! Here are a few unique extensions I came [...]

Technically, Janglish refers to expressions that sound like English and are used by the Japanese when speaking Japanese but is also used when mentioning amusing  mistranslations too. During my visits i’ve encountered a good few firsthand, so here are a few amusing examples along with some downright funny/unfortunate choices for brands and shopnames!

When we visited Iwatayama Monkey Park in Kyoto last year, I spent a bit of time shooting several shots of the landscape with the plan to combine them into a Panoramic. Finally, here’s the result!

Well if I ever needed a reason to start scrimping and saving every penny I have, there it is. The 1/1 RX-78 Gundam displayed previously in Shiokaze Park is on the way back with a new addition!

So I applied for JET, but found out yesterday I didn’t get selected for interview.

It’s almost becoming something of a tradition for Square Enix to release a licensed energy drink around the time a new Final Fantasy game comes out, so it’s no surprise to anyone that Suntory-licensed FFXIII drinks are currently available. What did catch my eye was this funky box on sale in the 7-11, containing both [...]

I fired off literally thousands of pictures in my time in Japan last December(doesn’t that make it sound so long ago?) so I’ve picked a few with which to revisit tilt-shift photography. This time it’s shots of Kyoto, i’m sure in time i’ll try and pick some shots for Osaka also. Enjoy!

Groovisions are a well known design house from Japan, famous for producing films and graphics for Pizzicato Five, Suchadarapah and many others. This is a fantastic music video for HALFBY’s Rodeo Machine, I’ve seen a DVD of this on sale in the Ginza every time I visit Japan but at around £35 I’m yet to [...]

Every year I push my suitcase to the absolute limit on the way home from Japan, filling every available bit of space with awesomeness from the land of the rising sun. This year I think I did particularly well!

After some 26 hours of travelling through all sorts of weather we are home with our doggie Pickles! The trip started around 7am in Tokyo and being a Saturday morning it was nice and quiet so no getting pushed around like last time, quick ride on the Yamanote from Shinjuku to Shinagawa and we were [...]