Japan, Finally

06/02/2002 English German

Edition # 40
San Francisco, 06-02-2002

Japan, Finally Aircraft as Arcade Tokyo Gastronomy Tokyo Fish Market Masks Beverages Beer Paper tissues Shuwattchi! Fashion Safety Technophilia Shinkansen Japanese speaking English Busy Bodies Rambunctious Youth Surveyed by Students Geishas Original and American knockoff Consumer Frenzy Japanese toilets Bicycles in Tokyo Train station in Tokyo Uniforms Taxis To Bow Shoes Off and Shoes On Hiroshima Ryokan Japanese Bath In the temple for AOL Koya-San Cemetery in Koya-San

Japan, Finally

Figure [1]: Temple in Koya-san, Japan.

Michael Finally, we did it: After intense preparations, we got on a plane to Japan to wander around by ourselves for two weeks, have adventures, and teach the Japanese to be afraid.

By the way, if you want to print out your newsletter and lovingly file it in a hand-painted binder, you can now download it as a nicely formatted PDF file -- the link is at the top, you just need to have "Acrobat Reader" installed on your computer. Today's issue is a hefty three megabytes due to the many images (so you'll need a fast internet connection), but the next newsletters will only be about half a MB in size.

Also, I have noticed that references to internet resources are appearing more frequently in the text to offer you more in-depth information, in case you are interested in a specific topic that is only vaguely touched upon here and want to explore further. And since these "links," as they are called in computer jargon, tend to be somewhat lengthy, the text only refers to a number like [3], which is then resolved into the correct links ( http ://..., you know) in the appendix "Links to the Internet" at the end of the newsletter. Happy browsing!