Smokyo

We are Amuse Museum, in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.
The museum has opened on Nov.1st. 2009. We exhibit lots of Japanese traditional textile articles, vintage quilts, and folk utencils etc. You can touch and watch our exhibits directly. On the other hand, we display HD digital Ukiyoe which be captured from the Spaulding Collection of the MFAB. Also you can enjoy Japanese tea ceremony, traditional folk dancing and musical performance everyday.

According to an Asiajin article, Softbank has set a packet limit on the unlimited Softbank iPhone plan. Asiajin reported in Oct 2009 that a packet limit has been set at 10m packets.
After recent correspondence with Softbank, Smokyo can now reveal that the packet limit has been set a staggering 1bn packets. When asked for confirmation of this limited the Softbank employee replied that it was 1 billion packets or 300GB of data transmission.
On a Softbank bill that would represent a charge of 80 million yen (or about 10 years salary if you have a half decent job) if there were no "unlimited" package plan available. This is compared to 750MB Fair usage limit for Orange in the UK.
What's the highest data usage you've managed? Mine is 29 million packets...

A UK woman has rocked into the Guiness Book of Records for having the largest collection of Pokemon merchandise with a total of over 13,000 items including stuffed toys and cards. Lisa Courtney started the collection 13 years years ago when Pokemon took off in the UK. She has been to Japan on a Pokemon-related trip.

Office Paper to Toilet Paper - White Goat Paper Recycler : DigInfo At Eco-Products 2009, Oriental Co., Ltd. exhibited a revolutionary recycling machine called White Goat, which makes toilet paper from shredded paper. White Goat also has a shredding machine in it. The shredded paper first goes into a hopper, where it is untangled in small batches, and its then dissolved in a pulper. Any foreign matter is removed in a tank, and the pulp consistency is adjusted. Next, the wet paper is thinned out and dried. The dry paper is wound into finished toilet rolls, which emerge from the outlet one at a time. All of these tasks are done automatically. White Goat won a top prize at the Monozukuri Nippon awards. It has patents pending, and Oriental is getting ready to release it in summer 2010.

Here's a short video showing how toilets in Japan (and indeed the rest of Asia) are used; how to
squat and a run down of the features on the brand new sit-down toilets available today.
As usual with these kinds of light instructional/ cultural insight videos, a fairly dim-witted foreigner gets to
"act out" his frustration with the Japanese cultural problem in a comedic manner.
He then gets to ask a sensei for some answes to his questions. The sensei is accompanied by his "daughter"

Why? Is it gonna do a dance?

Although this museum is set in the ultra-trendy fashion mecca Laforet in Harajuku, the Laforet is a fairly down-to-earth museum which hosts small film festivals, art installations and launch parties. Check it out after you have shoppeed yourself out.

 

Would you like to meet some of your favourite Sumo Wrestlers and TV stars?
Then head down to a temple near you for the annual Setsubun Bean Throwing Festivals on Wednesday February 3rd.
Here are a few details and a few bean-throwing stars:

Hasedera Temple Kamakura, Kanagawa (from 10:45am)

Sumo Wrestlers:
Takasago Oyakata (stable master)
TV Celebrity
Osawa Akane

Narita-san Temple, Narita Chiba (from 11am)


Sumo Wrestler:Yokozuna: Asashoryu
Sekiwake: Baruto

NHK Tai ga Drama
Hiroyuki Miyasako
Masaomi Kondo
Mitsuko Baisho

Check for the temples in your area at the Let's Japan Setsubun homepage (in Japanese)

jun is kawaiii..........................................

ofcourse arashi is the best............watch there tokyo dome 2007

ahmm............. i think jun is the best watch his jdorama smile you will understand me........... kawaii...........

his the best japanese actor ever

his the bet

Ai Carina Uemura: Japan's R&B Princess

An Interview in English with Japanese R&B diva Ai Uemura.

Anna Tsuchiya, no competition!!!

Misora Hibari is the BEST SINGER EVER!!!!!!! That counts in America to

Here's a recent video of British-born You Tube sensation Beckii Cruel. She was over in Japan performing in Akihabara for her legions of Japanese fans. Here she appeared on a TV show Jan 2010. 14-year-old Beckii enjoys the attention of the Japanese public due to her dance renditions of famous anime songs some of which she has dubbed English lyrics on.

More Foreign Stars in Japan

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this elsewhere, but there's a chain of Indian Vegetarian restaurants called Nataraj. I know they have at least 3 locations, one in Ginza (7f in the building across from Matsuzakaya on the main road), one in Ogikubo (it's close to the station, downstairs in a basement floor), and another. Really good all-you-can-eat buffet lunch for 1050 yen. Love it!

Mendokusai means "This is such a waste of my time" or "I'm too lazy to do it". "Do the dishes!" "Mendokusai" "Do your homework" "Mendokusai"