tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196601792011-04-21T17:58:28.414-07:00trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1144767346895600012006-04-11T07:49:00.000-07:002006-04-11T07:55:46.933-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/Hiroyuki.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/Hiroyuki.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Submitted by Hiroyuki Imamura<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-114476734689560001?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1144654327712880092006-04-10T00:16:00.000-07:002006-04-10T00:32:07.723-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/miso.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/miso.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The no-longer-secret miso udon recipe from Fukuju, the noodle shop behind my school. Hiroshi, the owner of the shop and author of this recipe, is my student. Make of that what you will.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-114465432771288009?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1141523627853351152006-03-04T17:47:00.000-08:002006-03-04T17:53:47.856-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4549.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/400/IMG_4549.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4548.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/IMG_4548.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4546.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/IMG_4546.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4545.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/IMG_4545.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4544.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/IMG_4544.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Posters!!<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-114152362785335115?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1141523251475704052006-03-04T16:56:00.000-08:002006-03-04T17:47:31.600-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4540.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/IMG_4540.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Last month Tsu held city-wide elections for a new mayor and city assembly. Just under 80 candidates vied for about 35 seats.<br /> It's long been known, in Japan at least, that voters can be swayed two ways: by posters and by the waving of a white-gloved hand. So for one week the residents of Tsu city were treated to an audio-visual electoral feast. From 8 am to 8 pm, the legal campaigning hours, just under 80 packs of cars affixed with loud speakers and filled with volunteer hands roamed the streets begging for votes and waving furiously.<br /> Every once and a while the candidates stopped to preach at moving traffic. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4539.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/400/IMG_4539.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-114152325147570405?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1140921087240805952006-02-25T18:25:00.000-08:002006-02-25T18:31:27.276-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/IMG_4805.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/IMG_4805.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Can your bank offer you this?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-114092108724080595?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1133972173428550202005-12-07T08:12:00.000-08:002005-12-07T08:29:43.730-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/obc%20logo.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/400/obc%20logo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />japanese corporate efficiency thoroughly debunked<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-113397217342855020?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19660179.post-1133968469013930722005-12-07T07:07:00.000-08:002005-12-07T07:14:32.520-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/1600/comp.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2214/1950/320/comp.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19660179-113396846901393072?l=competentperson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>trevorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13135674445256848471noreply@blogger.com1