Month: September 2007

Next Japanese prime minister is an otaku

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date September 13, 2007
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Yesterday the Japanese prime minister resigned. Abe will not be anymore the prime minister and will probably be substituted by Aso, a man who declares himself as a manga and anime fan. He reads around 10-20 weekly manga magazines, he did political speeches in Akihabara and he is a Rozen Maiden otaku. He likes so much Rozen Maiden that his nickname is “Rozen Aso”.

Reading Technorati News I found that since yesterday manga and anime business related company stock prices are rising very fast, because having an Otaku prime minister is good news for them. Examples of manga and anime related companies benefiting from “good” political news are: Mandarake, Ghibli, Kodansha, Shueisha, Bandai, Toei animation, Gentousha etc. An otaku is gonna govern the second most rich country in the world!

Aso
“Rozen Aso” will probably be the next prime minister in Japan.

Technology

Batteries recharged with water

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date September 11, 2007
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Ciro Altabás sent me a link about a Japanese company that is selling urine rechargeable batteries. This thing about the urine is a false rumor, the batteries are rechargeable with WATER, but they could also be filled with any other liquid like for example urine or saliva; that’s why urine “false”/exaggerated rumors appeared. In many blogs and news sites it is so exaggerated you could think that nowadays Japanese people are peeing on their digital cameras in order to recharge them.

The batteries are called NoPoPo, they can be found in packs with 2 batteries and a water filling adapter. The batteries keep their charge during 10 years and can be recharged around five times until the carbon and magnesium they have inside is depleted. The NoPoPo batteries are environmentally friendly, no mercury or any other contaminant components.

Pilas
Liquid rechargeable batteries.

Architecture Tokyo

Shinjuku during the last 35 years

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date September 11, 2007
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My brother and Haripako sent me this video that shows how skyscrapers appear in Shinjuku (Tokyo) since 1969 until 2004.

Shinjuku’s financial area development during the last decades changed the city’s activity area from the “east side” to the “west side”. Lately, some new buildings are being built in the “west side” around Tokyo/Yurakucho/Ginza, maybe the main activity area will go back to the traditional center of Tokyo located around Nihonbashi.

I didn’t have 35 years to take pictures, but here there are some Shinjuku pictures I took during the last 3 years.

Shinjuku