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East Meets West
 The Tenessee Steak House in Tokyo |
 Yep, there's one in Tokyo too |
Hmm, which pair shall I wear TODAY?
9-year-old Japanese boy to enter U.S. university
100-pound Japanese man wins U.S. hot dog-eating contest in New York
David from Kansas, the Land of Oz, wins an arm-wrestling contest with
a Japanese college student
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Tomoko Mita, a 27-year-old from Tokyo
Japanese honeymooners on a bass fishing trip to Texas
ZZ Top advertises a Honda car
The Texas Exes of Japan
(the largest overseas alumni club of the University of Texas at Austin)
The Lone Star Cafe,
a hot country and western live music club
Japanese
Culture
 A gas station with pumps hanging down from the ceiling (no need for concrete islands) |
 A restaurant/bar made from a London double-decker bus |
  Ultra-thin vending machines for a roadside installation |
 A Japanese-style toilet (how is your squatting ability?) |
 Enjoying a summer festival in a yukata (Japanese robe) |
 A sure sign someone is having a home party |
Tokyo Elevator Girl
A 90-yen shop -- everything in the store is under one dollar (Whoever
said EVERYTHING in Tokyo was expensive?)
An all too familiar scene on Tokyo trains -- young women with shopping
bags, fiddling with their mobile phones
The Annual Trek to Mecca -- thousands of Japanese ascend the nation's
highest peak, Mt. Fuji
Venus Fort, Tokyo's latest shopping mall
catering especially to young women, with store fronts
that resemble 17th-century Rome. The ceiling looks
like a real sky and goes through a full sunrise/sunset cycle every hour.
A roadside bar, set up in a converted VW van
The Cut-Away View,
a unique car showroom marketing tool
Ever
seen a beach THIS crowded?!
Catching a quick snooze on the floor of a train station
(be sure to leave your shoes at the front door!)
My
favorite Japanese Elvis impersonator -- Aaron-san
A
Japanese country & western band
The
PRINT CLUB - an instant photo booth where you can select the background;
the current rage in Japan, especially among teenage girls (sorry,
no larger images)
Japan has many VERY interesting festivals.
This one in Kawasaki celebrates hopes of "fertility."
An outdoor train station platform fish aquarium at
Osaki Station, Yamanote Line, Tokyo
(only in Japan.....) (photo courtesy of Ken Cotton)
Students
The BEST English class in the Universe
A
fall picnic with my students at Showakinenkoen Park
Dinner with my students
from the Foreign Service Training Institute
My students from Katsushika Ward, Tokyo
at our Bounenkai (forget-the-year party)
Hot Springs
(Japan has over 2000 of them!)
Hatcho-no-yu
Hot Springs, Tochigi Prefecture
Shikinejima,
one of the Izu 7 Islands
Santogoya Hot Spring, Nasu
Nikko National Park
Kamiwakka no Taki,
Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido
Other
Stuff
One of my favorite fishing buddies, on a boat in Tokyo Bay
A
Shinnenkai (New Year's) office party with my coworkers
Making
homemade Japanese soba noodles
The L'Esperance Singers performing in the Printemps Ginza Department
Store
My new neighborhood frisbee buddy
In
my Disney costume
The former FAMOUS Pub Elvis,
the BEST karaoke bar in Tokyo
My
Tokyo home and vehicle ($60 used shopping bike)
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