I just love chewing gums, and especially those from Japan, because of their vast variation of flavors. This one has the flavor of lime and yuzu!As you can see from the plastic coating of the package a...

Surprise surprise! I’ve got some lovely Japanese gyarus to show you all this week as well ;) View PollP.S. It’s easier to just click on one image and flick through the gallery with your keyboard...

Welcome to another message brought to you by Shiranwa. This time we have Don Quijote!For those of you who don’t know about the Don Quijote store, it can be summarized in three words. HAS IT ALL. Hon...

Many requests I put up on the JPCP page are pictures of various stores in Japan. I love shopping and I find stores in Japan particularly interesting. This time, I got Shiranwa to take some shots of th...

What am I doing? I’m enjoying some Swedish beer imported from Germany while listening to some good Japanese hip-hop and looking at Gyaru Wednesday week 11.Together with all that stuff I mentioned ab...

Missed the first episodes? Start here »In the third episode of Takashi’s Great Journey you get to see footage from his time in Hakodate, Hokkaido. This is the last stop in Hokkaido before continuin...

These two said they were cosplaying Gakuen Angel. Either this is some major underground manga/anime or I must have heard wrong >.>; as I can’t find any info about them.Their costumes were hand made ...

Woohoo! Gyaru Wednesday! Go get a cold one, turn on some MoNa a.k.a. SAD GIRL and enjoy ;)The picture above is definitely my favorite this week, what’s yours?...

Tired of heavy hangovers after a night out? Well, you’ve come to the right place my friend! Ukon no Chikara is here to save the day.Ukon no Chikara, which literally translates to “The Power of Uko...

Anyone remember the classic Jamie Kennedy Experiment? I loved that show, but this episode I must have missed! Jamie Kennedy plays Frank, the owner of a sushi restaurant. Frank thinks his staff loves h...

Missed the first episodes? Start here »Takashi’s great journey continues and this time he hits four locations, Shin-totsukawa, Sapporo, Otaru and Niseko. He finally finds some people to skate with ...

Sakuma Drops is a hard candy made in Japan flavored with real fruit juice. Sakuma Drops is much like Pocky, an icon of candy in Japan, although Sakuma Drops being a more retro one. These hard candies ...

Hi! A short introduction. My name is Shiranwa. I’ve lived in Japan for the past 7 years and thought I’d help Yonasu out with his little picture request. I hope you enjoy the pictures I’m able to...

In case you haven’t watched the first two intro videos yet, you can check them out in my previous post right here.Takashi’s great journey through Japan on his skateboard has just started. The star...

Japan is famous for its vending machines. Sometimes it seems like you can find a vending machine on every corner, at every station and on top of every mountain! Here are a few of the stranger vending ...

Wow, week 10! This is the longest series of posts there is on this blog, and it just keeps getting better and better. This week’s edition is a bit longer than usual and has a little bit of everythin...

Meet Takashi, a skateboarder from Osaka, Japan. On the 9th of July he decided to go on his Japan tour that he had been talking about for a long time, only by using his skateboard.In these two intro ep...

Oh hi there, this is Guu speaking. I’ve been a bit boring lately and I’m sorry about that, but it’s hard when master yonasu can’t help me on his own. What kind of third party does he think I a...

Out of the ten girls that was featured in the first Girls Girls Girls post, Yuki Kashiwagi of AKB48 was the one who has gotten the most votes so far (25.9%). So as promised, here’s her first own pos...

Meiji ShrineI think it’s time to write a report on how things are progressing with the Japan Photo Compensation Project. As expected, people have been taking interest in the project and I’m proud ...