Neil Duckett

Last night I attended the same function I met the grandson of the founder of Miss Nippon last year. Again it was held at the Keio Plaza hotel and again it was a great night.

I spent the early part of the evening talking to TVK Yokohamas Kyoko Nakayama which was interesting as always and also caught up with the World Extreme Skiing champion Yoshimasa Wada and told him of my recent Snowboarding trips.

The highlight would have to have been meeting Lungtok who apart from being part of the Tibet Olympic Judo Team several years ago, is currently the translator for the Dalai Lama when he is in Japan. Not only was his conversation interesting I was most impressed to hear he was fluent in 5 languages.

Unfortunately the guy in charge of taking the photo was obviously impared with Sake and he managed to take an out of focus photo.

Not unlike last time, the grog and food was put on, and put on very well i might ad. Fast becoming a favourite of mine is Sushi and I only broke away from the Sushi last night to try one thing and that was the Whale Steak. There was a raw option beside the cooked variety but my taste buds weren’t tempted.

Coming from Australia the topic of Whaling came up on several occasions and it was discussed in a mature fashion, more than I can say for the behaviour from the guys from Chasers in this recent clip on youtube. I never have really liked much of their stuff.

Moving to Japan was all about doing and trying different things, eating Whale falls into those experiences, as did eating raw horse and the many other foods I would normaly never had the opportunity to try.

Lastly,  I got to work this morning, a little hungover from the 2nd and 3rd parties that saw me in Kabukicho till the wee hours this morning, to read about Danny Choo selling up his site for US$5.1 million, it may be a late April fools day joke and it may be legitimate who knows.

It’s not bad though considering he just writes about his passion for Anime and other Japanese related topics. 12 months ago he was pulling over 30K per month from the site, looks like he’s hit the big pay day today though. Word has it he will still manage and oversee the site. You can read more about it here if you’re interested.

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