I had not known even the existence of such a crazy competition until I watched the Japanese movie, "KAMOME SHOKUDO". It seems that Japan is one of major players in this field;)

Finally I got them. Yes, they are fish;) This was the 3rd time to try to get them here. I need the license for fishing and I paied to get some of them. The system is not so simple and basically the license is only valid in its defined area…

I've experienced lots of things which I had never expected in Japan. This is also one of such things. It is PaintBall. Today I had a team building, which is an event that all of our project members do something together in order to enhance…

My mother visited here and we spent a few days in the summer cotage, which my current comapny has. This is my first time to stay summer cotage here. It was so nice that I could be so relaxed, having nothing in my mind. I am not so good to …

I can change my Japanese drivers license to Finnish one and it can be valid for 40 years....what a long term it is! So if i get it new, my license will be valied until 2046. Anyway, I've not yet got it and I will go to the police station t…

This afternoon it was a quite nice weather like lately, it is the very finnish summer season. We spent a few hours on watching the Helsinki Samba Carnaval. The parade started from Senate Square and went through Esplanadi(probably the most …

Yesterday my son and I had our hair cut with a shaver, which is normally called BARICAN in Japan. It was so nice that I felt comfortable when shaving hair with it. I guess that this feeling might be somewhat similar to that of one who love…

Since my son had slept for about 3 hours this afternoon, it seemed that he could not sleep at all after that. So I asked him if he wanted to go outside after dinner, and he agreed to this proposal gladly. We took a walk around my apartment…

This is a kind of research for tomorrow's hiking. Yes, I am going to hike there with my family and friends together, they invited us originally. According to the great Wikipedia, it is located on the northwest side of my city, Espoo(in the…

My Japanese friend invited my faimily to dinner and we enjoyed it, and then he suggested that we could take SAUNA which was located on the top floor of his apartment building and had the great view. So we tried it. We were enjoying it for …