As seen on CNN!  Check out this weeks Offbeat iReport images to see one of my shots from the Tokyo Cow Parade 2008.

What worries the Japanese?  Earthquakes and global warming top the list of worries.

Your favorite English language magazine in Tokyo may be hard to find due to the bankruptcy of a major distributor.

Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh has announced that her will retire at the end of the season.  Did you take advantage of the opportunity to see him manage a baseball game in Tokyo this summer?

Maison de la Bourgogne offers French food and fine wine in Kagurazaka.

A kamikaze pilot volunteer turns to the tea ceremony in New York.

In other cultures there are jug-bands but in Japan they have a man who plays a spade that sounds remarkably like the shamisen, an ancient Japanese stringed instrument.  A spade is not always a spade!

Image Credit:  Wikimedia Commons, Shamisen

Post from: The Tokyo Traveler