Here’s the situation: say a million yen suddenly falls into your lap. What do you do with it?
Spend it? Nah, in these tough times it pays to tighten the purse strings.
Invest it? I wouldn’t trust the stock exchange with a child’s lunch money, let alone a million yen.
Stick it in a bank account? Right . . . and while you’re at it, pray the state’s teetering deposit insurance system will keep you covered when that place goes belly-up.
Now let’s have an expert’s opinion on the matter.
Question: What would you do if you suddenly got a million yen?
Miu: I’d walk around and slap people in the face with wads of cash.
Then again, probably not the next one. (I’ll need time to replenish my Japan Excursion Fund after Spring 2009’s bank-busting visit.) But if they’ve got one slated for the second half of November 2010 or thereabouts, I’m game.
As its Collaboration of the Month project for November 2009, the denizens of the free online travel website Wikitravel have embarked on an important endeavour: bringing order to the massive accumulation of district entries and information pages that collectively make up the Tokyo travel guide.
Like Wikipedia, Wikitravel allows anyone to contribute and edit information, so I’d encourage readers to jump in – or, to use site parlance, “plunge forward” – and help make the project a success. Whether it’s the address of a hole-in-the-wall manga shop or a new travel guide for an entire district, any helpful contribution is welcome, no matter how big or small.
Diego briefly escapes from the drudgery of the white-collar salt mines to bring you another review, served piping hot on the Wolf Hurricane blog.
Today, the spotlight falls on Cielo – the last in a three-volume series of hardbound books featuring the manga art of ARIA author and illustrator Amano Kozue.
The iPod Touch puts Swiss army knives to shame. Never mind that you can’t use it to cut cheese, start a fire or skin a wild mountain goat. With a Touch in hand, you can bop along to the heavenly tunes of Palestrina one minute and study for the JLPT the next. Heck, why not do both at the same time?
(Because Latin and Japanese don’t really mix well, that’s why. But you could if you wanted to.)
Today, Diego turns the spotlight on an app that iPod Touch or iPhone-toting Nihongo students might consider adding to their software arsenal: codefromtokyo’s Japanese.
But if I see the following scenes from the novel brought to life . . . then we’ll talk.
What was this reaction… similar to a normal person’s?
Nagato’s eyes were tightly shut, and a blush of red began spreading on her ceramic-like pale cheek. Moans, like faint sighs, escaped from her slightly parted lips, and I finally noticed the quivering of her delicate shoulders under my hands, like a puppy under chilling air. A shivering voice reached my ears.
“Stop it…”
I confirmed that Asakura had left first before I whispered to Nagato.
“See you. Can I visit the club room tomorrow too? I have nowhere else to go to after school.”
