Living in Osaka Blog

I made it down to the Midosuji Parade last Sunday and it was a lot of fun. Some kind crowd members made space for my wife and daughter to sit with them. From what I hear this year’s parade was slightly different in that a lot of local community groups took part, in [...]

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One of the most spectacular fireworks festivals in Japan, the Yodogawa Festival (淀川花火大会) will take place this Saturday (4th August). It might not have as many fireworks as the PL fireworks festival but it has more variety and some special character fireworks. I’ve seen Doraemon and Hello Kitty ones.
I’ve been a number of [...]

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Sorry for the delay… Here are the photos I took in February of the Osaka Evessa versus Niigata Albirex game. Including a couple with Matt Lottich. Hope you enjoy them!
 
You can find all the photos here or as a slideshow here
Evessa won their second championship in a row a [...]

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There’s going to be an informal meet-up of members (non-members welcome too) of the Osaka Flickr group this Saturday (16th June). The plan is to meet up at an photo exhibition of Brad Crawford, one of the members of the group. More details here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/osaka/discuss/72157600227522155/
The place where the exhibition will be held is [...]

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Some great photos of Osaka by my friend Janne, who also has a most read-worthy blog on life in Japan.

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A black and white photo I took a few years back of Honmachi subway station.

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As promised some photos taken last weekend of the Penguin March. Everyone enjoyed it so much, especially the kids. Let’s hope that after the bird flu scare they will have the event again next year. More photos on my flickr account.

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Spotted in my local subway station

The multi-talented Ueto Aya warns everyone about the dangers of spyware. And you thought she was just a pretty face :p

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