Windows 7 Whopper

There were complaints about Burger King/Hungry Jacks ‘Triple’ & ‘Quad’ Whoppers, but this is ridiculous …

2010 J-Pop calendars

The 2010 calendars for many of Japan’s pop stars and idols are now available to order …

Japanese bureaucracy gone mad !!!

Here is an example that I discovered of the way the Japanese mind thinks

Japan’s unique mobile phone features

It seems that Japanese mobile phones by law have a certain feature that is not present in the same phones in other countries …

Japanese movie ‘The Machine Girl’

Released in August last year, this movie was a hit in Japan, and is about to be released on DVD  …

Second anniversary !!!

January 2009 is the second anniversary of this Blog, and considering the lack of time I have had to work on it, particularly the second half of 2008, I still rather pleased with the amount of hits it is getting …

‘Enoshima’ photos

I have finally updated the ‘Enoshima’ home page with pictures taken from the latest exhibition ….

Top 100 Japanese Pop Artists – The List So Far….

From HMV Japan’s web page, here is their ‘definative’ list – I gather from around 2003 ….

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

 

I just found out about this fascinating book which was published in 2005, and documents what amounts & types of food different people eat in various countries around the world.

I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire !!!

POP quiz folks – TOTO is the name of …

A day in the city with Osamu Tezuka

Today I spent a day travelling to the city to visit the ‘Tezuka – the Marval of Manga’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

JR East’s Keihin Tohoku line

The Keihin Tohoku line is one of Tokyo’s busiest major suburban lines.

JR East ‘Shikisai’ (4 Seasons) Joyful train

UPDATE 21-04-2007 – You can now read a review of the latest model here …

http://jmtn.wordpress.com/2007/04/22/kato-10-919-review/

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JR East converted one of their Ome line 4 car 201 series suburban sets to the ‘Shikisai’ (4 Seasons) Joyful train in 2001.  

Japanese buildings

If you have never been to Japan, you would not believe the sight that is typical of most Japanese cities.  

The end of ‘Setagaya’

At exactly 17:45 on 15/02/2007 AEDT, ‘Setagaya’ ceased to be, was bereft of life and started pushing up the daisies at a tremendous rate. If you are possibly able to hold back the tears, please have a look at it’s final moments on this page

My sincere thanks to everyone for your kind comments over the last five years, and to those that were able to see it in person, it was a pleasure to meet you. Keep an eye out for start of work on the new layout, and I promise you that this one will certainly be bigger, and hopefully better as well

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If all of this sounds incomprehensible, ‘Setagaya’ was an ‘N’ scale (1/150) Japanese model railway layout that I built over a period of 5 years, took to many exhibitions, and won many awards for. It was loosely based on the Tokyu Setagaya tram line in Tokyo, but also had Bullet trains, and an underground subway and shopping mall. The layout doubled in size during it’s life, and many changes were made with the buildings and scenery etc. You can see a full photo history of it’s construction on the following pages …

1. 1st part – the beginning to Nov 2004 (versions 1,2,3) 
2. 2nd part – Nov 2004 to the end (version 4)