On my way home on Friday night, this poster caught my eye. It shows a model reconstruction of the Kashiwa station plaza from a bird’s eye view. Sheer brilliance, I thought. I wonder who had this idea and who went through the pain of building this. I spent a lot of time last year taking picture on the station plaza. It is a great place to... 

Quintessential Japan Tweet... 

The lack of postings here and a general unresponsiveness to email is what several people have pointed out to me recently. Well, needless to say there is only one person to blame: our little Theobald. In a nice way of course. Add to that being busy at work, my endless first-class business travels (not) and it is easy to see that there seems absolutely...