Uchikura & Co Blog
2011-05-26
I received this email from the Newport High School. This school is not too far away from my house and the school is where my daughter used to attend. This is disturbing, I hope police catch the people...
2011-05-26
I am traveling to Tokyo today. I have been in Kansai where there is no effect from the earthquake and tsunami, but Tokyo is not so lucky. They are conserving electricity (I heard) to compensate for th...
2011-05-26
Costco Japan is still selling iPod ... Interesting. Costco stop selling iPod in the USA.
2011-05-26
It was a beautiful morning. The typhoon No.2 is approaching Japan from the southwest. The rain will start tonight.
2011-05-24
Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO) stopped pouring sea water into a reactor for 50 minuets because of the order from the prime minister. The prime minister asked TEPCO to stop pouring based on the advise ...
2011-05-23
The broadcasting in Japan now is focusing on the monetary damages. They are mainly talking about Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) and how much it will have to spend to compensate.Now they are talking about as m...
2011-05-23
After 14 and half hours of traveling time, I have arrived in rainy Kansai/Osaka International Airport. I had about 2 hour layover at Icheon Airport in Korea. As usual, Asiana provided wonderful servic...
2011-05-22
I am taking ASIANA flight to Japan today. I will be back on 5/31.
2011-05-22
Only few people hanging on the pole survived the tsunami in Japan. What you are looking at is the radio antenna standing on the top of the roof of the 3 story building. It looks like a middle of the o...
2011-05-22
Today I went to Best Buy to buy something. But QR Codes next to the price tags caught my eyes. QR Codes are the 2D bar code can be read by smart phones to take user to the specific web site. In this c...