PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Beautiful Sunday

Nov

25

It is a beautiful end to the four day weekend. It is little cold but sunny Sunday. Funny days do not happen very often in Western Washington. It makes you feel really good. I hope you all had good weekend.

See you on Monday.

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Shop Small Business Saturday

Nov

24

Support your local small businesses.

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/Shop-Small/

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Waist of Trees

Nov

23

Seattle Time Black Friday Edition 2012

Have you looked at the today's paper?
How many trees do you think were cut down for this one day of advertisement?

Did you buy anything today?
Don't you think newspapers are delivered too late?

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Legalizing Marijuana

Nov

7

Image Borrowed from The Net.

Washington State just became the first state to pass the law allowing casual sales and use of marijuana. This state bans cigarette smoking basically everywhere and now making it legal to smoke marijuana?

So that means, companies like ours must allow marijuana usage during the break? Or is it legal for the company to ban marijuana use during the work hours?

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Busiest Pedestrian Crossing

Nov

4

I think this is the busiest pedestrian crossing in Japan. This is at Shibuya.

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Tokyo Highway Traffic

Nov

2

Tokyo Highway (Toll Road) Traffic Report

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

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More images from Shinjyuku, Tokyo

Nov

1

Shinjyuku Station Sign

This is a school building

Coca Cola - Vending Machines

Omoide Yokocho - Lots of Small Drinking / Dining Places.
It does not look so clean.

You can see Kabuki-Cho in the distance

Lots of places to eat.

Big TVs

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.

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Shinjyuku - Busiest Downtown in Tokyo

Nov

1

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.

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DepaChika (デパ地下)

Oct

31

Bento Marked Down to 390 yen

Chinese Dish Marked Down to 390 yen

Chinese Dish Mared Down to 390 yen

Fried Checken Marked Down to 270 yen

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 bought too much, I can't even eat half of them. I had more this morning, but I still have some left. When you visit Japan, visit department store after 6:00pm.

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FRANK MULLER WATCH

Oct

29

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 up with few good designs which we liked. So, we were getting ready to use them. Mayumi came to Japan and happen to walk in front of the watch store were she saw an exact same design. That was this Frank Muller watch.

It turned out Chinese designers did not design but just copied the existing designs. We learned quickly "Copyright" does not mean anything.

When we told the owner about this, he was not very happy ...

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