Ahhh, Groping ! When i first came to Japan in 2002 i noticed signs on the subways depicting 3 things … all illustrated by cartoon; no fighting, no setting the seats on fire and no putting your hand up a school girls dress. Needless to say each pictu

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Watchmen is considered by many critics to be the best comic story of all time. ALL TIME! How could other creators and companies possibly hope to top that? Well, they couldn’t. But soon after, DC created the Vertigo line. Amazing writers (mainly British) like Grant Morrison (Doom Patrol and Animal Man), Jamie Delano (Hellblazer), Neil Gaiman (

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Superman Returns' lead star Brandon Routh gets married, not to Lois Lane but to his long time girlfriend, actress Courtney Ford, on Saturday at the beautiful El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara.


"Even though it cooled off into the evening, I can only feel the warmth and love in this breath-taking setting," wedding planner Katie Tiffany

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I've never been to a White Castle but having seen the first Harold and Kumar I believe that if you smoke a lot of pot their hamburgers must be something magical. Now Harold and Kumar are back for yet another adventure. This time, however, they're running FROM the joint (that's the tagline, I didn't make that up). In "Harold and Kumar

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If you haven't heard of Neil Strauss, then you need check this post out. Neil is a famous Pickup Artist and author. Yes, I said Pickup Artist; as in he knows how to pickup women - even famous ones.

He just came out with a follow up book to his hit book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. The new book is called R

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I'm a big fan of Neil's blog. If you have been to Japan, want to go to Japan, or like me completely miss being in Japan, then this is the blog for you to read.

In this post, Neil mentions all the sites that he likes to visit, including a bunch of site about Japan. So, check it out and don't forget to leave the guy a comment while you

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The Reaper Virus has wiped out hundreds of thousands of people. Fearing the reaper virus will kill everyone if they don't act, the British government erects a wall around those infected with the reaper virus and forgets about them. 30 years later it's "Doomsday" and the reaper virus is back. Now the world must look to those who have su

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Neil is a photojournalist based in Johannesburg. His blog explains a lot about how he feels being on the fringes of the news on a daily basis in this country of ironies and inconsistencies, sometimes he can be passionate about it, sometimes he couldn't give a #$@%, but he always has something to say about it...thats for damn s

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On a Sunday morning in Harajuku, specifically the bridge leading from Harajuku to Yoyogi Park, there’s plenty of interesting sights to be seen. For those in the know they are aware that for many years youngsters dressing up in various Lolita costumes litter the streets. For those un-aware making their way over to Meiji Jingu an

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The Coming of Age festival is celebrated on the second Monday of January. The day used to be celebrated always on January 15 until the year 1999. This year it was celebrated on the 14th and as usual it was a National Holiday in Japan.

Its Japanese name is Seijin no hi. All young people who turn twenty years old in that year

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In about 2 months time we’ll be experiencing another Cherry Blossom season, a great time of the year for throwing the frisbee in  Read More...

Neil Patel, Social Media Marketing authority and Chief Technical Officer of ACS (one of the most respected SMM/SEO agencies out there, with clients such as HP and TechCrunch) is a young man with some more than impressive achievements, a person worth learning a thing or two from, who will be sharing his experience today. Definit

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Lindsay laid low for a while but the starlet is back on the scene and making sure she is noticed by showing how sexy legs she has.

Lindsay Lohan stepped into the Neil George Salon yesterday and emerged transformed. She smiled big as she headed to the James Blunt concert last night, proudly sporting her new darker.

Her new

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If all things go according to plan we should have Cherry Blossom’s in Tokyo the last week of March and first week of April.

For more detailed information on this years Cherry Blossom Forecast you can go here or here, both are in Japanese though so you may need to just do what i’ll do and wait to see it with your own eyes.
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Once the word checked out i promptly agreed and a week later they sent me a book on “Face Food: The Visual Creativity of Japanese Bento Boxes”

I’m not a massive reader of books these days, so lucky for me there’s lots of pictures and what fantastic pictures they are.

This book provides a fascinating insight in to the Jap

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