Okay I am totally late on this one but here it is, the last part of the bicycle market report. First is Nakamura San and his project Momoiro Bike Works, I guess this could interest Danny Choo (?) Then I met Mr CyberCyclist; with his system he has his own telebi (TV) channel, streaming live his rides across Japan. He has almost 2000 followers on Nico Nico Douga, a popular web app in J... Read more

First I want to apologize for the last 15 days without any updates here. Thing is, my wife and I got our wedding ceremony the first of November. I talked about this already a little bit last year (if you want to know the whole story ;) Anyway for once I will share something more personal than usual. Indeed as we chose to do the ceremony in a Shinto Shrine (Ogamiya... Read more

These photos were taken during August and at the beginning of September, this is a last taste of summer 2009 (right now (1:45 AM) we are in a middle of a typhoon, heavy rain ... worse forecast is expected tomorrow morning just when we go to work...Gambarimasu! ). I sorted the photos by themes this time : City : Shots taken after a day at the office in Shibuya. Time to r... Read more

Waiting for wifey to finish her work in Daikanyama, I visited this shop. When I first came to Japan in 2005, in Osaka, I was amazed by the diversity of the sneaker models one could see. Of course coming from a French provincial city it was different, there was not such a choice in our local shops (It surely has changed since). Especially I was surprised by the Limited Japanese Edition... Read more

Japanese Spiderman in 1978. Clearly I am not a big fan of spiders unless they are huge and mechanical like the ones we could enjoy seeing last spring in Yokohama : It was La Machine, a wonderful street show.( more pictures) Though, I did not like them, I got used to see the small jumping spiders in the apartment from time to time. I find them almost cute... I knew there wer... Read more