Green tea Kit Kats are scarce on the street now, but they are always in season at the airport. They're giving out whole sticks as breakf....
23 Dec 11:01 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Miki bought lottery tickets for the Year End Jumbo drawing last night. She picked up a scratcher for each of us, too. We scraped them while ....
23 Dec 10:49 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Have I mentioned before how good the post office near my work is?It's mostly the people. Once they rummaged around in their own internal mai....
17 Dec 3:53 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I was engrossed in a podcast of This American Life last night, moving through a crush of people down the subway stairs when I felt a tug on ....
15 Dec 2:49 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I can't believe this bicycle wasn't playing music.....
14 Dec 6:15 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Note: My most sensitive friends shouldn't read this. Go on, get out of here.I stayed at a luxurious hotel in Hakone this weekend with a ....
14 Dec 12:30 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Pandas are inherently cute. You have to put in a little extra effort to make a cartoon panda look creepy. If you are so inclined, giving it ....
11 Dec 3:37 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

 AFTERNOON TEATea SparklingAfternoon tea has been drunk by the English ever since the custom was started by the Duchess of Bedford in the m....
10 Dec 12:16 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Here's something a little different.One cool thing that happened this year is that I met Gwen Bell, an American entrepreneur with a past....
4 Dec 7:28 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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3 Dec 6:16 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The FIT for Charity run did not benefit an animal shelter. I glanced at the photos of dogs in vests and assumed, and we all know what that d....
1 Dec 4:25 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

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1 Dec 10:49 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

No violence, no throwing confetti.At the National Stadium, where Jim ran the FIT for charity 10 k race this weekend.  (I thought getting up....
30 Nov 1:45 pm  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

"Coffee? Nope, it's soup" A new line of hot "cafe soups" lets you "take the cafe with you." The product ma....
26 Nov 7:46 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Watch out! They're after your bag.....
25 Nov 10:01 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

They closed off Iccho Namiki Dori to traffic this weekend so people could walk in the street to admire the yellow gingko leaves. People paus....
24 Nov 10:07 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

 "Nice to meet you. I'm Vinegar Milk."....
18 Nov 10:34 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Japanese engineers are working to get insanely high-definition 3-D TVs into homes. Meanwhile, this sushi place near Higashi Ginza went with ....
17 Nov 8:47 am  from  Japandra   [Profile]  [Recent]