23 Responses

1. Dave

   January 12th, 2007 at 10:25 pm

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   You should sleep in one of the capsule hotels.

2. Richard

   January 13th, 2007 at 12:59 am

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   You should try to carry out a “romantic assignation” with Scarlett Johannsson in a capsule hotel - you should meet her at the minibar..

3. Joe

   January 13th, 2007 at 1:25 am

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   I’m pretty sure they have a lot of robots in Japan, right? Well, you should find one of those big ones that you can go inside and shoot lasers at other robots and stuff. Then you should become the Grandrobo Battlemaster.

   Failing that, find and play in Yanobe Kenji’s apocalypse-survivable Villa TORAYAN and breathe fire on your enemies with Giant TORAYAN.

4. Roar

   January 13th, 2007 at 3:28 am

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   you should break as many customs and rules as you can, vacation time is perfect for things like that

5. Nich

   January 13th, 2007 at 3:29 am

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   Unfortunately you just missed Dali’s centennial retrospective, some friends of mine went and made me exceedingly jealous.

   It’s kinda boring I guess, but when I went there last summer, pretty much all my activities with friends revolved around going to certain karaoke bars. For roughly $10 you get all you can sing, all you can drink karaoke for 2 hours. Not the most exciting thing I suppose, but there’s not much that’s more amusing than drunk Japanese kids or scaring said Japanese kids by belting out a stunning rendition of Slayer’s “Angel of Death”. And it’s always a good fall-back plan.

6. Brad

   January 13th, 2007 at 4:22 am

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   You should dress up in a Kimono and all the traditional make up. …and take plenty of pictures to post up here.

7. Gloria

   January 13th, 2007 at 4:50 am

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   Visit the ramen museum!

8. Meredith

   January 13th, 2007 at 10:51 am

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   Go down to Harajuku.

9. Generalissimo

   January 13th, 2007 at 11:27 am

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   You should go to the Sapporo Yuki Matsuri (Sapporo Snow Festival)! There is ice sculpture, and beer.
   The 2007 dates are Tuesday February 6th to Monday February 12th.

   http://www.yamasa.org/japan/english/destinations/hokkaido/snow_festival.html

10. Penny

    January 13th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

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    Inax toilet factory robots! (a friend of mine is writing a book about, well, loos)

    http://wardatyork.livejournal.com/29158.html

11. Arlette

    January 13th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

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    Go to 6%DokiDoki (http://www.dokidoki6.com/ ) and see if they still have stuff from Junko Mizuno, my favorite artist!

12. Noddy

    January 13th, 2007 at 10:41 pm

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    You must meet a beautiful Japanese woman, fall in love and together produce a new website - “Hide Your Knees” - which links to cool looking kimonos.

    Enjoy the trip and woo for Dirty Microbe giving shit away!

13. Claire

    January 13th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

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    You should find me a degree

    Love you!

14. m1k3k

    January 13th, 2007 at 11:10 pm

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    you should buy toys and gadgets that arent available anywhere else, and drink some sake also.

15. Katy

    January 14th, 2007 at 6:58 pm

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    You should go around to all the japanese people saying Do-i-tashi-mashite (english pronounciation and pronounce the ‘e’), it means you’re welcome, but say it inappropriately and emphasise the ‘Do’… they love it, will make you an instant hit there and they will support your rise to power, making a useful and impressive ally. Also get hold of/go see a band called melt banana, i saw them in bristol, they are all tiny japanese people whose instruments are bigger than they are, but they are the coolest looking band in the world : extreme japanese electro punk is how i classify them!!!

16. Tyse

    January 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am

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    Queue outside of a electronic shop, on a Japenese high street, at night, preferable when its raining, for the long awaited public launch of a new generation console.

17. TomTom

    January 15th, 2007 at 4:09 pm

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    Hey Andy, hows it going in sunny northern places?

    My friend Joel went to Japan a few weeks ago and i challenged him to find a vending machine that sold used womens pants (i swear they’ll start selling vending machines by vending machine soon) or failing that some beer from a machine. The little tyke didn’t find any pant machines nor beer ones so finding one or the other (plus photo) would be awesome. If you feel friendly enough bring me some beer (i’m fine with my own pants thanks).

18. Ben

    January 15th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

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    Visit Tōdai-ji - The world’s largest wooden building hosting the world’s largest gilded bronze Buddha.

19. rangga

    January 16th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

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    You should try sushi, the original ones made by Japanese =)

20. Mo

    January 17th, 2007 at 8:50 am

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    i will buy a house (ore a flat) in Tokyo, and i will stay there for all my life!

21. HIDE YOUR ARMS » Cotton Filter: 170107

    January 18th, 2007 at 3:23 am

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22. Josh

    January 19th, 2007 at 7:33 am

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    Go to the Manga Museum in Kyoto.

    http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009170.php

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    September 9th, 2007 at 3:22 pm

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