GenkiDesuKa said...

GenkiDesuKa at 12:01 PM JST - 25th June

It is too bad it is closing, but the age of old style department stores is coming to an end, as the steep decline in sales shows. However, I hope someone (the city?) pressures the new owners to keep the building rather than tear it down.

Posted in Yokohama Matsuzakaya to close in October at 12:01 PM JST - 25th June
GenkiDesuKa at 02:28 PM JST - 21st June

The Olympics in Chicago will be a nice way to end the final glorious year of an Obama administration. And, since Spain had the Olympics in 1992, and Japan had the winter olympics in 1998, so you can't really make the argument that the US had it too many times,…

Posted in Which city would you like to see get the 2016 Olympics? at 02:28 PM JST - 21st June
GenkiDesuKa at 11:16 PM JST - 19th June

If I am not mistaken, this new law also enfranchises those who are 18 and 19, as the voting age in Japan is usually 20. That is pretty interesting as well.

Posted in Kawasaki City gives foreign residents right to vote in referendums at 11:16 PM JST - 19th June
GenkiDesuKa at 04:23 PM JST - 13th June

It seems the long time community members don't like the direction or attention akihabara has been getting, or the kind of people who are attracted to the place these days. The first place I wanted to go to when I first came to Tokyo in 1997 was Akihabara. However, it…

Posted in 'Pedestrian paradise' to be suspended in Akihabara at 04:23 PM JST - 13th June
GenkiDesuKa at 04:08 PM JST - 13th June

The article is about how the neighborhood is changing from a place where "otaku" in the best sense of the word -- people who become really committed to one thing, in akihabara's case, electronics and computers and so on -- to a shady red light type of district like kabuki-cho.…

Posted in Akihabara becoming increasingly weird at 04:08 PM JST - 13th June
GenkiDesuKa at 11:27 PM JST - 5th June

and they should add cheerleaders and fights in the stands

I guess you have never been to a Hanshin Tigers game...

Posted in Bobby Valentine makes pitch to save Japanese baseball in new documentary at 11:27 PM JST - 5th June
GenkiDesuKa at 03:25 PM JST - 2nd May

It is Jack's world.

Posted in Jack Nicholson looking for one last big romance at 03:25 PM JST - 2nd May
GenkiDesuKa at 11:39 PM JST - 30th April

President: I don't think hachmike is saying there is an actual stated policy of depopulation, but, to say that their has not been a continual movement of people from the countryside to the city is incorrect as well.

And, the fact that you see lines at gas stations proves the…

Posted in Long lines form at gasoline stations before surcharge is reinstated Thursday at 11:39 PM JST - 30th April