Blog Title: Q-TARO.COM: Photos of Tokyo, Japan, Gadgets, Keita

Canon Powershot G10

Everyday for the last 5 days I’ve received an email from a stranger asking me why I’m not updating this blog anymore. I guess it must be a sign or something urging me to get back to it. Truth is I’ve been quite busy with other things (not an excuse) and haven’t been able to read more..

Many people still don’t know how to use the Internet

Instead of typing the URL directly in the browser they’ll go to Google or Yahoo and type the site name, or sometimes even the URL, into the search box. This is understandable for obscure sites of course, but I see people doing this all the time for sites like Hotmail or CNN or Amazon. What’s read more..

Marilyn Monroe ate at Royal Host in Japan

The camera on the iPhone 3G is total crap and doesn’t do macro. You can hardly make out the writing on this Royal Host (a family restaurant in Japan) menu photo but it says that Marilyn Monroe ate this same Onion Soup at the first Royal Host restaurant in Japan in 1954. I guess back read more..

iPhone 3G

Hey, I got an iPhone 3G!! That’s probably not so surprising to you if you read Danny or Hector’s blogs cause they posting my photo on friday when Brad and I were standing in line to get our coveted gadget of the year. I was also on CNN. Well, I appeared very briefly amongst a read more..

Son and Jobs

I found this picture on K-Tai Watch and thought I would share it. In case you don’t know who the guy on the left is, that’s Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank (Softbank is the company that bought Vodafone in Japan, they also own Yahoo Japan and E*Trade Japan). He looks happy that he got the read more..

Master Cleanse Round 2

Some of you may remember that I did the Master Cleanse aka Lemonade Diet 2 years ago. Well, I’m doing it again and am currently on day 6. I would actually be on day 7 today if I hadn’t eaten half a pizza on day 1. So I had to start over. Anyways, it’s a read more..

Hachikō: A Dog’s Story

Richard Gere is going to be in a movie about Hachikō. I happened to be mindlessly surfing around imdb.com and found the entry. From looking at the cast list, it seems like it won’t be filmed in Shibuya. The wikipedia entry on Hachikō says the American adaptation will take place in Rhode Island. And I read more..

New Office View of Tokyo

This week my company moved to a brand new office building in central Tokyo which is why I’ve been a bit busier than usually. Our new office has a fantastic view of Tokyo and even Mt. Fuji on a good day. This afternoon between meetings I took a few photos. They’re not that good so read more..

N.Y. Cupcakery in Tokyo

I’ve been getting fat on cupcakes recently. Near Meidaimae station, along the train tracks there’s a small cupcake shop that makes some of the best cupcakes I’ve ever had. The shop is called N.Y. Cupcakes because the owners actually went to the U.S. and learned how to bake cupcakes from some cupcake guru, apparently. There’s read more..

Hello Kitty Brush Shop

While walking around in Jimbocho the other night I spotted a dim light in a shop window. It turned out to be this retro Hello Kitty night light. I don’t know which I found more interesting, the Hello Kitty lamp or the fact that the shop was a brush shop. I mean, when was the read more..