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Looks like tomato, taste like strawberry... wait, no.
Looks like strawberry, taste like tomato.
When the man created this brought it in the house, a daughter who hates tomato mistook it for a strawberry and ate with great relish.
They say it is sweet and and there is more lycopene content than the general tomato.
These are all Nico Nico Douga GIF icons.
(699 of them!)
They all move at once and wriggles like insects. Cute.
These are clouds seen in Japan on May 11. Just a day before the Chinese earthquake.
Japanese calls these "an earthquake cloud" I now remember that the sky gives you the great weather forecast. I completely forgot it. The sky I look up at now is different from the one in my childhood.
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(The video below shows the rainbow colored cloud which was seen in China 10min. before the quake)
"My lonesome cowboy" the figure art work Takashi Murakami (Modern artist) was at the auction of Sotherby's of U.S. in New York on 14th, and it was made a bid for 15,160,000 U.S dollars (about 1,595,000,000 yen).
To a high price to largely exceed an expected sum (3,000,000-4,000,000 U.S dollars), big applause arose from a meeting place. 
The figure of the naked man that Murakami made this work in 1998, it is 101.6 in. in height.
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Next time I go to Japan, I would definitely visit Okinawa, the beautiful funky place. And eat at this crazy Asia Dining Restaurant on the huge man made banyan tree!
In fact, there are many users not only for the train, car and bicycle but also scooter in Japan.
Since having car is not greatest idea over there, you only have a few other choices. Public transportation or bicycle.
But, hey why not 50cc scooter! It's convenience and run faster than a bicycle. I always wanted to have Italian Vespa which was not so friendly price. So I had to compromise with Japanese made Vespa-ish one. (the red one in the picture) Gosh, it was actually the killer (until I crashed it). It was compact, cute, and speedy.
Memory.... oh well, what about now. How they look like? Surprising. They are completely transformed! link
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A dress of Marie Antoinette who lived in the French Imperial Court of the 18th century reappeared with paper by major print company in Japan, Dai Nippon Printing (DNP).
It is now exhibiting at gallery in Tokyo / Ginza. It is reproduced the feel of a material of silk fabrics with special print. 
They used synthetic paper to let the piece of cloth original flexible touch last about those all cloth, then cut and sewed, and the part of the dress was able to complete each completed cloth.
Living in Japan is definitely fun and exciting. But you also have to deal with earthquakes too.
The evacuation drill is always held in school and the offices. They are prepared. There are many kind of emergency goods too.
But once the ground starts shaking up and down, and to the side, I mean everywhere, ……arrrrrrgh just scary.
There is the legend to be said, when a dragon which lives near the earth crust wakes up with anger, it shakes the ground.
We just saw the terrible earthquake in China. You mighd find some kind of pattern? I hope not.
1923-Feb. Kamchatka earthquake-M8.5
1923-03/24 China, Sichuan Earthquake-M7.3
1923-May, Japan, Ibaraki swarm earthquakes
1923-09/01 Japan, The Great Kanto Earthquake-M7.9
2006-04/23 Kamchatka earthquake-M7.9
2008-05/08 Japan, The Ibaraki offing Earthquake-M7.0
2008-05/12 China, Sichuan -M7.8 new
Have you decided anything for the mothere's day?
How about this rainbow colored rose?
It is sold in Japan, but originally from the Netherlands.
No wonder.... peace!
If a country changes, McDonald changes too. Around-the-world trip McDonald.
You can visit,
Japan - Korea - China - Taiwan - Hong Kong - Indonesia - Indonesian - Singapore - Malaysia - Thai - Qatar - Bahrain - Azerbaidjan - Estonia - Latvia - Lithuania - Swedish - Netherlands - France - Italian - Croatia - Spain - Canada - American (the mainland) - Mexican - Panama - Surinamese U.S.A. (Hawaii) - New Zealand - Australian - Guam - Saipan - Japan
Spicy potato in Mexico, Spam and soysauce in Hawaii and Guam, croquette in Netherlands etc. Very interesting.
