‘Kimonobox on Japan’ Archives
Dear Me!
Grumpy 3 year olds — what a to do we had today! Solved however by the Dear biscuits with the smiley faces on. Have you tasted Dear biscuits – they really put smiles back on your face!! Individually wrapped Dear biscuits are great unless you have a really grumpy [Read More]
Japanese Musical Clocks
My house is full of musical clocks. On the hour, every hour we have different tunes being played in different rooms! It makes for a great atmosphere and over the years, it has really helped the kids tell the time. Mind you when you are on the phone for business it can be [Read More]
E-book Google Japan
I have been gathering information recently on e-books and digital publishing. So I was interested to read this article in the Mainichi Times. Thanks to JapanReporter on twitter for pointing it out to me today. Did you know that most readers in Japan don’t support [Read More]
Publishing an E-book
Has anyone had success with publishing an e-book? A while back I wanted to publish a small book to read to kids with a Japanese cultural theme. The book I created has a simple storyline and was designed to achieve a few personal goals. Firstly, to provide another dimension [Read More]
Iron Chef Train, Japan
All aboard fans of the Iron Chef! It appears that ‘trains Japan’ can feature anything from chocolate bars, gachapon toys to Pokemon and Iron Chefs. This is a brilliant catch on the Shinagawa Station from m0nkeyxman! I was pleased to have found this moving [Read More]
Japanese Story
I wanted to post about one of the popular kids stories that we reading at the moment because the characters are so unusual to my mind. It is the story of the green beans, peas and peanuts. It find it fascinating what other cultures create as characters for kids story time. [Read More]
