Tokyo, the City of New Discovery

Tokyo is the city where the East meets the West, and the past meets the future,and analog meets digital and....



When you walk around Tokyo area,specially if you are a foreign national who have just arrvied in Japan, you will probably find so many interesting things that impress you, such as vending machines on the street or railway fare gates where you can use your mobile phone with ic card capability for payments ,or shinto shrines surrounded by skyslapers and Tokyo Tower and such.




Tokyo is the number one city by GDP in the world in 2005 reports done by PricewaterhouseCoopers.







With the populations of nearly 13 million and highly sophisticated mind of business people, there are tons of business opportunities for foreigners as well as foreign corporations.








So, I would say,why do not you come and see this attractive city, and you will meet some spirit here in Tokyo, Japan!!

Sakura,Sakrua (Cherry Blossom season has come all around Japan.)

It is the beginning of April and cherry blossom starts flowering to celebrate the start of spring in Japan.



Interestingly enough, according to press, what is called "blossomming line" -latitude where trees start to flow on a given day- on April1, which 40 years ago was in the south of Honshu, is now about 200 kilometres(125 miles)further north.




It is obious or easy to guess that climate change and urbanisation to metropolitan area in Japan are causing this phenomena.

Should politician do anything about it?

Dancing Robot from Sony

Many Japanese manufactures use huge amounts of their R&D spendings for human robotics specially for marketing purposes to show how technically superior they are. A company such as Sony is no exceptions,and indeed it does create very sophisticated one called Qrio which is capable of dacing with strange flowing movements for foriengers resembling Japanese traditional dancing.



Even though the smoothness of movements by these robots are hard to believe that they are programmed by human, they are really fun to watch.

It is also really interesting to see how Sony are trying to apply this into their real businesses.