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There are 60 comments about "japanese"

정이 김: American want to send beef infected with mad cow — so dangerous that the Americans refusing to eat it — to my country! Myung-bak Lee sign a deal with America to lift a ban of......

in response to: Anti-US Beef/2MB Protests by chiamattt

SF: Hate to change the subject on the negativity of Hutchinson...at least is in the US!! I was born in Hutchinson KS at the hospital that used to go by the name Grace Hospital, it was 1964.......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Clive: Awesome! An excellent slice of life...I'd love to go and teach English in Tokyo someday; hopefully I'll have enough funds amassed to do so within the next year or two. The lamp in front of......

in response to: Tabemasu / Nomimasu by serlingrod

chiamattt: [[img:24913]] this is what the route of my walk looked like. I started at about 2pm and finished at about 5pm. The read boxed area is a high police-bus presence area as its the area that......

in response to: 07-12-01 by chiamattt

Peter: er, japanese. lol. i knew that. just said "korean" out of habit, i guess!...

in response to: Osaka Part Four by chiamattt

chiamattt: Peter, I think he's the dude who tells cement trucks and other construction related vehicles where and when to come and go. Also, these are Japanese slices-of-life shots, but thanks for the love!...

in response to: Osaka Part Four by chiamattt

testeez: Loving these photos. Is the guy in the first picture shaving? The one of the man (and dog) pulling the cart caught my interest. Do you see lots of stuff like that in such......

in response to: Osaka Part One by chiamattt

SULLIVAN: The Prospect Park zoo had elephants, polar bears, monkeys, lions, tigers, and a pony track where kids could get a ride in a poney wagon. In addition, there were row boats & peddle boats on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

.nanotech.: [[img:18457]] [[img:18458]] [[img:18459]] [[img:18462]] [[img:18463]] [[img:18464]] [[img:18465]] [[img:18466]] [[img:18467]] [[img:18468]] [[img:18469]] [[img:18470]] [[img:18471]] * The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy. * There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,......

in response to: Airport Scenes 1 by aer suzuki

Kelly M: I am Bill C's ex wife and I also worked at the plant and met Bill there and subsequently got married. It is such a shame to see the plant gone, I have wonderful memories......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

New Face in Bushwick: Need more than Starbucks. Northeast cafe is the only one that I can relax and enjoy the meal at. Italian, Japanese restaurants would be wonderful.. Investors and developers out there - business......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

EvilGentleman: I must agree with some of this quite heavily. To repeat a comment I posted on VampireFreaks, my opinion about the human race, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion, subculture, style of dress, or social "class"......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The fact that someone would have the gall to name something in this area after the Algonquins, who are the traditional enemy of the Mohawks, is quite distressing. The Adironadacks are the homeland of the......

in response to: Adirondack Signage by GGP

mark: tai chi by itself is just exercises and yoga as well. There is a trend really since the 60's to accept things like these without examining the roots and implications spiritually. So Christians belief it......

in response to: God Is Good by Peter

groovehouse: [[img:11168]] Bamboo Graffiti - Hermann Park, Japanese Gardens, Houston, Tx....

in response to: Bamboo Graffiti: Akaka Falls State Park by barry

jeeff: elicar - how about the reservations up north where people continue to be stuck without clean drinking water and reliable infrastructure? how about the saskatoon police (to name only one notorious department)? the amount......

in response to: Cheap Sex $60 by Elicar

EvilGentleman: Try babelfishing "I love you." from English to Japanese to English to Korean to English to Italian to French to German to English to French to Portuguese to French to Italian to French to Greek......

in response to: Babelfishing by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I noticed that non-Latin alphabet characters seem to cause problems with the formatting for the main posts, but since I have seen them in the comments area without too much trouble, I hope this will......

in response to: Babelfishing by EvilGentleman

ea: hehe! in japanese, putting "O" in front of a word signifies an honorific tense......

in response to: O\'Sushi by EvilGentleman

Carltan: i think asian(especially japanese) people are funny and i like your pictures...first one is not as good as the rest...

in response to: Another Saturday by chiamattt

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, interesting. I see a definite Japanese influence in his work. Thanks. I'll keep my eyes peeled for any of his stuff....

in response to: Faces and TSK by EvilGentleman

Elicar: That's very pretty! I have a dwarf Japanese maple that I planted two springs ago and I couldn't wait for it to grow to its full glory of about 5 feet! Of course, I may......

in response to: Coming soon to a branch-tip near you... by drea

GGP: hanami: the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season, from the first buds to the brilliant blossoms to the petals falling like pink snow. (from a postcard i got......

in response to: Cherry Blossoms in Brooklyn, Pt. 2 by sine

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Great links. It's the opposite of 101 unuseless Japanese inventions....

in response to: A Few Minutes After Work by chiamattt

RonO: I worked at this plant from 1980-1984 when we were working 3 shifts and building 300,000 cars a year. At that time GM was manufacturing the X body car which was highly in demand because......

in response to: Abandoned General Motors Plant by Peter

EvilGentleman: I just found my answer at some commercial website here: [[http://commerces.arrondissement.com/Mercier_Hochelaga_Maisonneuve/commerce.asp?id=114&sortcode=8.3]] [[img:9760]] Decorative articles - zen - feng shui - Chinese/Japanese pottery - jewellry - body piercing - books - incense - and "bonsai naturals?" ...

in response to: St. Patrick\'s Fire by EvilGentleman

Elicar: I don't know whose piece is it, but here is where I took the picture from: [[img:9751]] A Japanese restaurant at the BCE Place. (Why am I always at the BCE?) ...

in response to: Medussa by Elicar

Chris: billy i dont believe u have ever been to the UK judging from ur... review of it. I have met many cool americans that apreciate there only allie on the planet and are nice......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

EvilGentleman: Thank you, GGP. I have better shots that were taken during an overnight sleepover for the women, but I will have to ask my wife for permission to publish them, since she took the other......

in response to: Shaping the Last Igloo Piece by EvilGentleman

jeeff: yeah, kudos. this is such a unique photo. it's not well known that japan has its own igloo tradition. in akita there's a 'kamakura' festival. kamakura are little snow houses. it used......

in response to: Shaping the Last Igloo Piece by EvilGentleman

jack: a friend of mine once lived in manila, during the japanese invasion. he was a young boy of 12 and was a runner for the resistence and eventually got caught and beaten but survived....

in response to: Sunsets, Anyone? Part 3 by Elicar

Guy McLaren: I dont know about that, I was reading the owners of the land wanted an extortionate rent and some japanese fellas have offered to buy it, What ever happened with the dome, I lost touch......

in response to: The Eye by Steelisreal

sanpakuman: suv driver, interesting observation . . . though think you're referring to "sanpaku," which as defined by http://www.macrobiotic.org/Sanpaku.htm is: "Sanpaku is a Japanese term that literally means “three areas empty”. It refers to two sides of......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Buzz Hargrove: First of all, I agreed with the Motorist. That Cyclist was picking up garbage off the street. That is a union job she's doing. Leave the garbage picking to the CUPE Local......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Mack-Limelight: Ya someone should ID the driver, like they did in the Japanese Subway Dog Poop girl story....

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

jack: wo, thats my uncle joe. we have been looking for him for 32 years. he has a cleaning business. he cleans windshields on cars as they are stopped for red lights. ......

in response to: Coming and Going by Peter

jack: im amazed at how the japanese are able to copy the worlds great structures and recreate it in their city. shinjuku could be new york city. sunset on tokyo tower could be paris......

in response to: Tokyo Architecture by Chris Jongkind

elaine: well put. i am told the japanese have a word for beauty in decay. it is a lovely photo...

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

elaine: ha, no nothing like that. it is a shop which sells very plain japanese no brand products, lots of lovely white polypropeline folders, stationery fethish stuff, bits and bobs, i love it...

in response to: abject objects by elaine

jeeff: i don't know about other places, but shibuya is about the only part of tokyo that has a lot of graffiti (shinjuku has some too, but mostly older it seems). shibuya is the most......

in response to: Neck Face in Shibuya Tokyo by Sarah Clement

jeeff: cool! it's one of my favourite bits of japanese cultural trivia. i asked many japanese i met about it and most of them replied that yes, they had eaten ##katsu## for good luck.......

in response to: Katsu by fi5e

jeeff: ##katsu## in japanese means 'cutlet'. for example, ##tonkatsu## means 'pork cutlet'. also, ##serikatsu## means 'to win after tough bidding' and is sometimes used to describe passing an exam or interview. ##tonkatsu## is often eaten......

in response to: Katsu by fi5e

Peter: heh, i think its the rope path markers around the japanese garden area during the cherry blossom fest ;)...

in response to: Rainy Day? Look at Flowers! by sine

elaine: these are ##so## beautiful! someone told me once there is a japanese word for beauty in decay, and of course i have forgotten it now. you have captured a regretful beauty with your gentle eye,......

in response to: Plum Beach II by kc

jeeff: peeing in public is common in japan, though frowned upon. they have lots of public washrooms, usually right beside the police boxes. the public washrooms smell bad, and they're all traditional japanese squat......

in response to: tokyo waterways (the arteries) by jeeff

Kemo13 Funartix Crew: Wow that Picture is a BURNER!! Respect!! Iam 19 years old graffiti artist from germany and Iam searchingfor graffiti contacts all over the world. Last Year I was in japan for painting withsome japanese artist.......

in response to: all-night ramen shop by jeeff

Lili: "like swimming pool meets japanese flower arranging" - masterful comment - excellent photo - thank you all....

in response to: Downtown Los Angeles by Pincheputa

RACHEL: I plan to attend school in Manhattan and live in a house in Bushwick. I am Japanese-American. I would be riding the J train between 9-11pm 6 days a week. should I worry about safety?...

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Marc: i have been writing and working (very hard) and traveling, but nothing in the citynoise genre as of late- though i desperately want to! Have to trepan some other stuff out of my head first........

in response to: hackney city farm by elaine

jeeff: haha, there isn't much competition for the crown. papakoti - i didn't have a japanese-style tub. unfortunately the whole building had to share a pair of grungey, frequently broken-down shower stalls. but during my......

in response to: tokyo living by jeeff

elaine: this is beautiful, and makes LA look uncharactaristically cool, like swimming pool meets japanese flower arranging...

in response to: Downtown Los Angeles by Pincheputa

sine: the presence of a torii signifies a shrine or temple nearby. indeed, there is a shinto shrine dedicated to Inari hidden in the woods behind the torii. here is some info from the site: Torii The......

in response to: brooklyn botanic garden : april 19, 2005 by sine

Jamie: Yet more japanese resplendency. I love that you are posting here lately....

in response to: tokyo by night by jeeff

Peter: some of hte japanese writers have siiiiick handstyles. they usually write in english though. hmm......

in response to: Shenzhen by Max

jeeff: really cool. i've often wondered what graffiti is like for people who are used to chinese characters rather than an alphabet. it must be a whole different mindset. chinese or japanese calligraphy......

in response to: Shenzhen by Max

sine: jeeff: it's the japanese hill and pond garden in the bbg. http://www.bbg.org...

in response to: brooklyn botanic garden : april 19, 2005 by sine

sine: jeeff: it's the japanese hill and pond garden in the bbg. http://www.bbg.org...

in response to: brooklyn botanic garden : april 19, 2005 by sine

ea: Re: Soho Paste-Ups: NYC third image down is one character short of reading co-ni-chi-wa. hello / good afternoon in Japanese. "co" is the missing element....

in response to: Soho Paste-Ups: NYC by Aaron

Fr3orb: Re: race against time wow, you capture the quintensential Japanese anime look to a T. (well, ok, that might come off poorly) rather I mean, in the same ethos of all my favorate anime's. you work......

in response to: race against time by jeeff

Jamie: I think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so. I think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so....

in response to: night life by jeeff

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