ToTaMo101: 2009

Sunday, 27 December 2009

New Tokyo Tower

View from Kappabashi of the SkyTree Tower being built in East Tokyo - December 2009.

Saturday, 26 December 2009

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Monday, 21 December 2009

Accenture in Tokyo one day before

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Friday, 13 November 2009

ringo

because nothing says merry christmas like an apple flavoured alcohol in a can...in a non-christian country.

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Saturday, 17 October 2009

Monday, 12 October 2009

Monday, 5 October 2009

Sunday, 4 October 2009

Saturday, 3 October 2009

sad

Stress or mental disease?

Men practicing a golf swing or a baseball bat swing or women who obsessively check their eyelashes.

annoying, bordering on sad.

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Saturday, 12 September 2009

Sunday, 9 August 2009

Manga Losers

In combiniya all around Tokyo working-adults (men in suits) stand and read comic books without paying for them. They are the manga losers.

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Monday, 13 July 2009

Sunday, 12 July 2009

Chenge has come

Bad engrish and a bad looking Obama in Shibuya

Friday, 10 July 2009

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Japan is home to some of the worst television on the planet. This is a 'live' report by a field reporter standing on the bank of a river (nothing is happening, no one is around, but it is 'live'). He is holding up a cardboard map - no high-tech graphics here, and you can see his hand supporting the card. We have the time in the top left corner, the 'LIVE' in the top right corner, some other text information at the bottom right. Meanwhile, we can see a picture in picture of the host in the studio watching the report. Why? Why, indeed. Incredible visual noise.

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

a discount nation

TV in 2009 in the 2nd wealthiest nation, a country known for technology, still uses hand-held cardboard signs. Meanwhile, massive kanji text blocks your view of the cardboard sign. A shameful embarrassment.

pointless

This "memorial plaque" made me laugh. It is on a very ordinary building in Shimo-Kitazawa. It is, indeed, pointness. But, it is in English, which is important in Japan. Though I do not know why. Plenty of mysterious and useless things in Japan. Everywhere you look.