This guy has a good, long, detailed write-up about what a Japanese funeral is like. His description is similar to my own experiences with funerals here.
Funerals in Japan
October 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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Koga Lantern Festival
April 5th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Another video created from source material that has sufficiently aged like a fine cheese. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), DivX
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"Shiny Mud Balls" are not a fad. (Well, maybe)
January 31st, 2006 · 5 Comments
I think I first read about this "fad" about a week ago on Boing Boing. Search Google for "shiny mud balls" in English and you get 186,000 hits. Search for the same term in Japanese (光る泥団子） and you get 413 hits. The latest fad taking Japan by storm? I think not. For what it's worth, [...]
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Lunch at Grandpa's on New Years
January 5th, 2006 · 23 Comments
Watch the video This movie shows 100% typical family life for me. It's for everyone who said they were curious to see the inside of Grandpa's house, and to those of you studying Japanese and can't get enough of hearing the real language. I slapped this one together as quickly as I possibly could, and [...]
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Hatsumode
January 2nd, 2006 · 12 Comments
New Year's is the one occasion when everyone "gets religion" here and pays a visit to a temple. It's called hatsumode. Some show up at midnight, others visit during the day. Our family always goes late in the morning of Jan. 1. It's 6am and I just finished this video. I would have gone to [...]
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