The traffic in Tokyo can be really bad. Today was really bad with several accidents.

Tokyo is one of the biggest town in the world with many popular districts. I was at Shinjyuku District. It holds one of the biggest red-light districts in Japan. This is where capitol of Tokyo is located as well.

Shinjyuku is one of the many downtowns in Tokyo. It is one of the busiest train station in Japan with more than 3 ~ 3.5 million people use this station everyday.

DepaChika = Depa (Department Store) Chika (Basement) The basement of all major department stores are dedicated to food items. I went out to eat last night around 6:30pm but ended up being at DepaChika. They had after 6:00pm sale which most items are marked down. I bought all those thing at DepaChina at 390yen each. ...

I saw this watch yesterday at Costco. It remind me if an incident few years ago. Mayumi went to China and met the graphics design company owned by an American. All the designers were Chinese and they seem to do a very good job. We asked them to design a clock for http://www.clocklink.com as a sample. They came...

I went to Costco Amagasaki in Japan today. They are one of the success business stories by the US companies in Japan. Although the business concept is the same between the US and Japan, Costco did amazing amount of localization to fit Japanese market. The total opposite is the US Auto Manufacturers in Japan. They are s...

You can buy variety of pre made lunch box at Japanese super market. Prices are great and they look great.

I filled up this morning at Chevron Gas Station near the office for $3.959. Finally it is under $4.00. I did some research, in November 2008, the gas price was $1.719. That means when Obama too the office, the price was less than half of what we pay now.

City of bellevue does not have public WiFi like City of Kirkland. But I picked up Bellevue City Hall WiFi even though I am few miles away. The signal was too weak to connect.

PSPINC held the Open House today for Seattle Executives Association.