James In Chiba - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Been in Japan over 3 years now. Husband and father who keeps busy here in the countrside running my own business building websites and selling products online.

Previously, I lived and taught English in the middle of Tokyo for over a year, followed by a couple more years down in Kamakura.

Moved again last fall to try and get away from the crowds - and succeeded! Currently living in an big old wooden Japanese -styled house right next to a rural train station between rice fields and the beach on the south-east coast of the Boso Penninsula a couple hours outside of Tokyo.

It's a quiet life! Fresh vegetables, clean air and miles of empty beach.

But it does get little boring sometimes - luckily, I have good company...

My Interests

Computers, Libertarian Science-Fiction, Japanese Food and Drink, Cheap Kaiten Zushi and Expensive Sake.

I'd like to meet:

Set up this myspace account hoping to dig around and find others who live around here - both Japanese and Gaijin - who might be interested in getting together once and a while for drinks and conversation about life here in Japan.

I get up into Tokyo quite a bit too - so if you live anywhere near Tokyo/Chiba, click here and send me a friend request .

Music:

I usually keep hiNRG and various techno genres pumping through shoutcast when I'm working online.

Movies:

The Blues Brothers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fight Club, The Day After, Atomic Cafe, Tampopo, Dead Man, Ocean's 11, Gundam (First One), Mononokehime

Television:

I don't watch much TV, except for Beat Takeshi variety shows. I miss 'Super Jockey' very very much. Also, Doctor Who was a very good series in the 1970's and early 1980's - they don't make quality TV shows like that anymore.

Books:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Think and Grow Rich (original version), The Creature From Jekyll Island, 1984, Atlas Shrugged - although it took me a month to read.

Heroes:

Thomas Jefferson. No, seriously, Thomas Jefferson.

My Blog

Fire Dancing in the country - side

Just got back from an outside party, live concert at a nearby commune. It's an organic farm with workers from all over Japan and several other countries too. There were probably around 100 people or s...
Posted by James In Chiba on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:08:00 PST

First Typhoon of August

Just when I was starting to forget about rainy season and beginning to take all these hot sunny days for granted, we get a day like today. Typhoon 25 coming up the east coast of Japan, downpours, thun...
Posted by James In Chiba on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:49:00 PST

Heat Wave On The Boso Hanto

Crazy hot down here today. There's a huge amateur surfer, bodyboarding and fishing competition at the beach just south of the mouth of the Izumi river today. Going to take the family down there and ch...
Posted by James In Chiba on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 05:18:00 PST