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What is a mikoshi?

Posted in Celebrations, Filming, Japan, Japanese culture, Life, Photos on September 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

I have here a plethora of pictures from my most recent filming of Asahi Pop’n Press. These are about Japanese mikoshi! What’s a mikoshi? Glad you asked!! They are portable shrines on sticks that are carried around by volunteers during festivals. They weight a LOT, and are made almost entirely from gold and high-grade hand-carved [...]

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Culture Japan Night ♪

Posted in Akihabara, Anime, Celebrations, Japan, Japan travel, Life, Manga, People-watching, Photos on August 25, 2012 | 13 Comments »

I really need to get out of my shell and socialize a bit more..! Thinking that, I forced myself to get out of the house when I was invited to Danny Choo’s Culture Japan night! It was last night in Akihabara, the otaku mecca of Tokyo (so to speak)♪ I actually had a lot of [...]

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Tamagawa fireworks festival! (*^-^*)

Posted in Celebrations, Japanese culture, Japanese traditional food, Life, Photos on August 19, 2012 | 21 Comments »

Every year (except last year– you know, Earthquake and all), Yokohama city throws a huge fireworks display on the Tama river. I didn’t realize that it was going on yesterday until around 5 (it startsat 7), and so I threw on a dress, grabbed my camera and tripod, and flew out the door to join [...]

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Happy 32nd birthday, Jamie!

Posted in Celebrations, Life, Photos on August 9, 2012 | 9 Comments »

Whew!! I’m now 32… an old maid, right? Or technically, today 11,683 days. WHOA! Old and crusty and “experienced…” Except that I feel like my life hasn’t really started! Which makes me wonder.. how old is everyone that comes and reads about my life here? Tell me! Oh yes. My birthday was the other day, [...]

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Happy Birthday interlude!

Posted in Celebrations, Life on August 5, 2012 | 16 Comments »

It’s my birthday today!! So allow me one day of doing absolutely no work at all.. See you later!! *bounces out*

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This month’s iPhone pictures!

Posted in art, Asahi Weekly, Celebrations, Japan, Japan travel, Japanese cafes, Japanese culture, Japanese restaurants, Life, Manga, Mangaka ni naritai, People-watching, Photos, Shopping on June 1, 2012 | 10 Comments »

Yesterday, I picked up and went off to Tokyo to be in a photoshoot for a friend’s play. After that, I wandered off around the city and ended up eating a dinner with my friend Adrian. It was nice to kind of escape for a day, but oh wow am I exhausted! I don’t know [...]

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Happy 2012, part 2!

Posted in Celebrations, Japan, Japan travel, Japanese culture, Photos, Things I love about Japan, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2012 | 17 Comments »

That last post was so depressing! If I think about it for a long time, I believe that I’ll get through anything. No matter what life throws at me, I’ll get through it, and come out, hopefully, a better person. Loss, tragedy, betrayal, and more. I don’t think that I’ve been betrayed as badly as [...]

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