http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:13:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting was held this year in Kyoto, on June 26 and 27th. The Group of Eight, consisting of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the UK, take turns hosting the different meetings and final summit, and this year it just happened to ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/07/20/the-g8-foreign-ministers-meeting/ I wasn't even going to bother writing about this. But my mom has been bugging (haha get it) me for weeks-WEEKS-to mention it, and I (regrettably) have more to write about the subject as of last night at 2am. When I moved into my apartment, I didn't know that after ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/07/14/oh-shiii-cockroaches/ As I type this I am breezing by central Japan at a comfy 171mph in seat 14E of the Nozomi Superexpress 155 bound for Shin-Osaka. (Well ok I finished the rest of it like two weeks later sitting on my bed...) After work on Friday, June 20th, in the pouring rain, ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/07/14/weekend-in-tokyo/ Heres another all picture post. A few views of downtown Osaka right near the consulate: Can you spot the consulate? Its the gray building dead center. Look for the blue police vans parked in front. http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/07/06/downtown-osaka/ Heres a quick geography review. This is a map of Japan: Notice towards the center of the country, theres Osaka. It's got a little line over the 'o' because technically, you should pronounce it with a long 'o' sound, like Oosaka. Anyway, there is where I am living ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/07/06/more-views-of-miyakojima/ So I have been keeping pretty busy here in Japan land. I slept for about 13 hours straight this past weekend after running to Kyoto and back three days in a row working the press conference at the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting. It was exhausting but an amazing ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/07/02/on-the-blog-horizon/ If for some reason a person that I don't know has somehow stumbled across this post, then maybe I could understand the confusion. But for anyone that knows me, well, I don't really have to explain Sirotan to you. Its a cute white seal character sold by a ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/06/18/sirotan-invasion/ Well this actually took place the first weekend I was in Japan (May 31/June 1), but I decided to abandon the idea of backdating all my posts because it got a little bit too complex. Three years ago when I was studying at JCMU, I participated in an event ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/06/18/weekend-at-megumis/ In early November of 2007, I applied to a Department of State summer internship program. I knew that for the summer of 2008 I needed to participate in some sort of internship program involving Japanese studies, not only because it would help me get a feel for what kind ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/06/15/so-what-exactly-am-i-doing-in-japan-anyway/ You might have heard on the news that there were some strong earthquakes in Japan on Saturday. Luckily they hit in a largely rural area in northern Japan, so the damage has been pretty minimal and so far there are only six recorded deaths. Osaka is in the ... http://tokyo-tofu.com/osaka/2008/06/15/on-the-recent-earthquakes-in-japan/