Mr Bloggy » Japan http://www.mrbloggy.net features various bloggers from around the world. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:45:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Pepakura http://www.mrbloggy.net/pepakura/ http://www.mrbloggy.net/pepakura/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:59:02 +0000 Mr Bloggy http://www.mrbloggy.net/?p=200 Pepakura DesignerI recently took up this really cool arts and crafts hobby that not many people are into at present. It’s called pepakura.

Pepakura is a paper craft where one creates three dimensional figures from paper. It’s a bit like origami, but unlike the ancient Japanese art of paper art, the figures are not representational. Pepakura figures look like the real thing. If you create a bear, it’s a bear that you’ll see. Pepakura figures can be made by downloading sheets that already contain the figures that you need to cut out and then paste. It’s deceptively simple. But there’s a level of mastery needed to make really beautiful figures. The figures you can make can range from animals, to bikes to spaceships. I’m even making a Millennium Falcon pepakura figure.

]]> http://www.mrbloggy.net/pepakura/feed/ 0 Kirainet.com – A Spanish Geek in Japan http://www.mrbloggy.net/kirainetcom-a-spanish-geek-in-japan/ http://www.mrbloggy.net/kirainetcom-a-spanish-geek-in-japan/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:03:06 +0000 Mr Bloggy http://www.mrbloggy.net/?p=108 kirainet
The site is surprisingly written by a Spanish guy, Hector Garcia, who has been living in Japan for a couple of years which provides us with interesting insight into Japanese Culture. Now why would you want to know a bout Japan from the view of another national, well first, the Japanese have many cultural differences that cannot be easily explained till you see them first hand. The language barrier is also a very difficult one to bridge for their language may not have direct translational equivalents in the English language so bridging the gap is very difficult for outsiders. Japan is a secretive society in a sense that there may never be a true manifestation or way of interpreting Japanese culture that from the eyes of the Japanese. More and more Japanese are learning the Western way of life and to that extent we have seen their technological prowess in all aspects of daily life.
From the best cars, dancing robots, computers and more, they have some of the best minds in the world in a country that is an archipelago, broken into several islands that makes up the country we know as Japan. The diversity of Japanese culture is very unique for crossing from area to area may give you totally different flavors of their unique culture. As the author has found from living there, life isn’t always as simple as it is for like the importance of pride in their work. Employee’s are less important than the company as well as their extreme value for honor which cannot be matched elsewhere in the world. Japan is an utterly peaceful place even with the gangs and the infamous Yakuza who respect culture and values their honor. People are friendly once you get thought the difficult language barrier.
The Japanese are some of the politest people on earth and they always got he extra mile for their customers. May it be in the airport, or on the streets of their major cities, or even the small remote towns, people will always look to you with a smile. Kirainet.com is available in the author’s native tongue as well as in English which allows us to see his experiences and interpretation of the Japanese way of life, as it has in it’s long history.

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