Tissue Advertisements!
by Breen
I'm sure this happens everywhere, but I think its a decent way to do business, but I'm sure extended exposer would get annoying.
While walking between Ikebukuro station and Sunshine city you can get around a dozen or so of these advertisments on tissue packages, near the end of my trip I began collecting them to get as wide a variety when I got home. I still have many of them around. I was suprised to see Popeye still being used to sell something, I think he is a little out of style!
Tokyo
by stonefree
In fact, there is no name of the place "Tokyo". This may make you being embarrassed. But I'm honest. The word just "Tokyo" as a name of a place can be used only for "Tokyo-to", or for "Tokyo Station" as far as possible, on a map or an atlas.
Tokyo-to is one of the 47 prefectures (ken) in Japan that possesses the metropolitan of Japan. It consists on the 23 wards (ku) and several other cities, town and villages.
When we call "Tokyo", we are generally referring to the area within the 23 ku. The aggregate of the 23 ku is the metropolitan and is considered as one city.
The names of the wards of the 23 ku are...
Chiyoda-ku
Chuo-ku
Minato-ku
Shinjuku-ku
Bunkyo-ku
Taito-ku
Sumida-ku
Koto-ku
Shinagawa-ku
Meguro-ku
Ota-ku
Setagaya-ku
Shibuya-ku
Suginami-ku
Toshima-ku
Kita-ku
Arakawa-ku
Itabashi-ku
Nerima-ku
Adachi-ku
Katsushika-ku
Edogawa-ku ref: Tokyo Metropolitan Government's site
and Tokyo Tourism Info
Tokyo Tower
by vigi
Tokyo Tower - The object of attacks from Godzilla - was erected in 1958 as a broadcasting tower. Taller than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, make it the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
Tokyo Tower can be seen from far in many places. This night view from Roppongi is VERY BEAUTIFUL! I heard that the tower will change colour to match different seasons. Orange colour for spring/summer.
photograph the magnificent ...
by Krystynn
photograph the magnificent Tokyo Tower - AT NIGHT!!! This monument literally lighted up the entire Tokyo skyline and somehow, you can't help but marvel at the similiarities between the Eiffel Tower and this. Hm... :-))
Blaming others for own faults. Not in Japan
by manuelEB
I am asked or almost on daily basis about how is like to live in Japan? "Two extremes!" I 've been told, regarding my "Latin culture" and the Japanese ways.
Well , it is not that different if you pay attention to the details and forget a little bit about the many times digested predjuices you could have about Far East and "Latin Culture". But there is, indeed, a big difference in how the regular Japanese citizen tackles certain problems. In case of failure or accident, the Japanese would never automatically blaim others to save face and responsability. Perhaps, very innocently, it will make an introspective analysis of his/her faults and will come up with a more balanced view. If it has to accept a degree of responability, or the whole responsability, it will.
I have learned a lot in this in 20 years, but I do recognize that I still get very upset when I have to deal with western people that automatically blaim others, and happily call name others, when failure and/or accidents occurred because their own faults.
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The pretty store (not my pic)
Lake view
area around Kegon Waterfall, Japan
Smoke from the incense rises from the romin
