How I'm livin'
A photo journal of my life in Fukuoka
The weird thing about Japan is that it has lots and lots of Japanese people. Japanese people find that this is a very odd statement but then most people find the things I say to be quite odd. I am the kind of guy who for his entire life lived among a critical mass of Koreans, Italians, Russians, Chinese, Northern Indian, Southern Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, British, Pakestani, Irish, Black, Native Americans, French, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian a populous of which only a tiny portion were - Japanese - well from my point of view a country filled with Japanese people is very strange indeed.
Fukuoka as seen from the highest spot in the city. Fukuoka-which is Japan's 5th largest city-is nestled between island mountain ranges and the ocean. Self contained in this area are bits and pieces of natural serenity and cosmopolitan exhuberance.
My room at the Matsushita corporate dorm. Insert "Where's the rest of it?" joke here.
Kyushyu Matsushita Electronics. The building itself is a relic made before World War II.
Park in Tenjin on a 90 degree day in the middle of october. Muh ha ha ha.
Buddhist temple in Daizofu which has been standing for 2000 years; about 10 times older than the US government
In Japan it is customary to write wishes on wooden blocks such as these and hang them at the temple. This wooden block reads: "I wish that one day I would get a girl to go out with me"
Middle School Class Picture. Moments after this picture was taken they were taken to the island in a hyper violent winner-kills-all tournament called Battle Royal.
My new friend Naomi
Me and my new haircut
The Fukuoka Daie Hawks won the Nihon Series. This man celebrates by dressing his dog in baseball jersey
Fukuoka by night
Beautiful Nagasaki
Where the water is clear
The girls are happy
And the lettice is green