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May 17, 2005

Takenoko

Bamboo_1 Gathering Takenoko (Bamboo Shoots) for dinner. (From Joi Ito)

Sleeping fortune tellers

Elvis Hair! How Do Things Change in Here? I think I'm not only person who is wondering why Japanese people always make everything so crazy. But, in this few years, I have reached at a conclusion. I guess It's just like a "copy noise". (More inside. From “Pratie Place”)

Abandoned rollercoaster parks

Family tree of Japanese Buddhas. (From ”Peptide”)

Skin like porcelain. Eyes like Astroboy. The latest trend for Japanese schoolgirls is colored contacts - not green or blue ones that ape gaijin eyes, but inky black lenses that make them look like they have gigantic monochromatic pupils

Kansai is a beautiful airport, created out of nothing. Here is a spectacular set of powerpoints showing how it was built. (Thank you, Philip)

I'm the guy by the pool

cheap digital cameras on the streets of Akihabara. flickr slideshow tagged with Haranjuku Harajuku

Ukai, or cormorant fishing, is a traditional method of river fishing that has been practiced in Japan for some 1300 years. (From Good Shit, source is NSFW)

Many More Unusual Links about Japan Here

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Did BoingBoing find the abandoned rollercoasters from Grow-A-Brain? Or did GAB find the site on BB?

Posted by: yllama at May 17, 2005 9:35:20 AM

That's not the Kansai Airport..though the Kansai was built in a similar fashion.
The Kansai airport was designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop...

great powerpoint though...

Posted by: AMEY at May 17, 2005 12:49:12 PM

Sweet dreams for fortune tellers.
(Cold comfort there.)
You got extra n - hara(n)juku.
hara means field or stomach (in different characters)
haran means - strife or unrest

Posted by: vitro nasu at May 17, 2005 2:39:17 PM

Ha...I just posted a link to the abandoned roller coasters in my blog. Odd I would run across that twice in one day. :) Its a neat set of photos.

Posted by: Becky at May 20, 2005 2:03:17 PM