Awesome Stop Motion Film

This was too good not to pass around.

Hello! Lion's cute cub

Hello!

この写真はライオンの赤ちゃんです。

富士サファリパークで撮りました。

富士サファリパークはとてもめずらしくておもしろい動物園です。

パーク内はフェンスがなく、自分の車か動物園専用のバスにのって

見学します。

普通の日本の動物園とは違ってとても間近で動物を見おることができます。

さらに、ビデオもあるので後で掲載しますね。

This is a picture of a lion cub.

I took this in the Fuji Safari park.

Fuji Safari Park is a unique zoo park .

It is a little different compared with an ordinary zoo park.

There are no fences around the zoo .

We watch many zoo animals in own car or park's bus.

It seems like as if I were in Africa.

I also took a video on my zoo trip.

I will show the video later. ;)

-Miki

Tokyo Street Fashion

One of my favorite things is East Asian fashion. Whenever I watch a J-Drama or am following my friends at Jacco Fashion, I just can't help but love the style. 

If you want to keep an eye the street side of things, the guys over at Trends in Japan have a great monthly segment on Tokyo street fashion. Check it out and see who's really wearing what every month. 

Almost-Otaku Goes Bilingual!

I am excited to introduce Miki! Thanks to Miki for being my first native Japanese speaking blog guest.

It seems Japan is a very popular subject these days.  You cannot watch American TV without Japan or Tokyo being referenced. What do Americans/Westerners find so interesting about Japan? Anime and manga, would most likely come to the mind of most. What about average everyday life? I think that is what intrigues me the most, what another culture so differnt from our own finds interesting to themselves.

I have asked Miki to not only post about interesting happenings in Japan, but to post about her everyday life.  I hope you will find it as interesting as I do.

I'm bringing up some herbs!

Hello! I've been bringing up some different herbs and spices.

Bringing up herbs is so cute and fun. After they grow up, I 'll cook with them.

Fresh herbs can be very healthy for you. What I want to try the most is drinking a cup of fresh herb tea. Have you ever tried that? It's really good and much better than a cup of dry herb tea. ;)

After growing up my herbs, I will show a picture of fresh herb tea.

今、庭でハーブを育てています！

ハーブを育てることは簡単だし、とてもかわいくて楽しいです。

フレッシュハーブは本当にオススメ！

ドライハーブを使うより、フレッシュで新鮮でとてもおいしいです。

私のハーブが育ったらまたブログでお見せしますね。

-Miki

A Unique Habit of Japanese

I think Japanese people like to know what your blood type is. Most Japanese are keen to know the blood of type each other and start thinking what your blood type is from the time they first meet .

I think it must be a type of communication in Japan, similar to what you look like. It's kind of an instrument of measure. Most people know their own blood type as well. I don't know why, but many Japanese want to associate blood type with a character, and if I said my blood type is A! they would say ''Ah , I see, I thought you were A!!''. It's an interesting custom and I like that. 

Many people would say ''It's impossible and divides people into 4 types", but I believe those people associate 4 kinds of blood type to each other somehow.

Please enjoy the website attached that is one of instruction manual for each blood type, that would help you like a business card .

http://setumeisho.com/

日本人は血液型で性格を分けるのが大好きです！
なぜだかわかりませんが、
それに関する書籍は日本でもベストセラーになるほど人気です。

４つで人を分けるなんて不可能だと思いますが、
以外と４つになんとか分けられてる場合もあります。
でも時々、ＡＯだよね。という会話も飛び交うので、実質、
４つではなく、6つの、A ,B, O, AB, AO, BO なのかもしれません。
父親がＡ型、母親がＯ型だったりすると、
ＡＯ型の性格とＡ型の性格は違うかも。

血液型分類は日本人の不思議な文化の１つだと思います。

-Miki