Christopher P. Hood

I got tattooed!

#Tattoo #Japan #REBECCA #FrankieGoesToHollywood #MaybeTomorrow #TwoTribes

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Hanshin Tigers win the Climax Series 4-0 💦

And my favourite player, Morishita, wins Series MVP.

Amazing to experience today's win at TIGER Stadium in Shimbashi.

Next up, the Japan Series

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YouTube video by Irgendwas mit ARTE und Kultur Japan: Die Blütezeit der Pokémon | Stadt Land Kunst | ARTE

This short docu on Pokémon and nature was released a month ago but I just spotted @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social in it 🥳

Contents tourism Part 3.
Can’t believe a 人力車came running by just as I arrived, allowing me to perfectly recreate the shot from the movie.

More contents tourism

#IfYouKnowYouKnowPart2

I can't believe this convenience store is so close to where I'm living.

#IfYouKnowYouKnow

Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2005) As noted in my previous post, Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2008) Again, in addition to the ‘Zom 100’ Contents Tourism in Gunma I did during my trip in August 2025, I also did two o…

Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2005)

#Japan #ContentsTourism #Maebashi #Climber’sHigh #Seventeen #HideoYokoyama #クライマーズ・ハイ #JL123 #JAL123

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Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2008) Again In addition to the ‘Zom 100’ Contents Tourism in Gunma I did during my trip in August 2025, I also did two other bits of contents tourism in Gunma – both in Maebashi. And both of them relate …

Contents Tourism in Maebashi: Climber’s High (2008) Again

#Japan #ContentsTourism #Maebashi #Climber’sHigh #Seventeen #HideoYokoyama #クライマーズ・ハイ #JL123 #JAL123

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鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day 14 October is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) ‘Railway Day’ in Japan, marking the anniversary of the opening of the first railway. That first line ran from Shimbashi to Yokohama. The original Shim…

Today is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day in Japan

#鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan #OnThisDay #OTD

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Learning From Mistakes As mentioned in my post ‘Zom 100’ Contents Tourism in Gunma, part of my trip didn’t go to plan. In fact, it started with me making a big mistake. It’d be easy for me not to post about i…

Learning From Mistakes

#Japan #Research #Fieldwork #Fieldtrip #ResearchTrip

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I've finally seen a live tanuki racoon in Japan (after recently failing to see any even at Tama Zoo). Where? Running past the entrance to my building. Could also hear others screeching away. Didn't get a chance to photo it. I wonder if they like popcorn 🤔😂

Google just asked me about the cat cafe in Osaka. I'm going to go with 'no' 😂

Not sure what happened to the Meitetsu train as the route was different, but we didn't stand a chance against a shinkansen that zipped past us 😂

On a JR Central train, seemingly in a race with a Meitetsu one. We beat them to Ichinomiya.
On to Nagoya 😂

It really was in the balance who would win.

History could be changed.

And then Ieyasu Tokugawa came on last and went full Freddie Mercury at Wembley.

The normal timeline is safe 😂

Been at Sekigahara today watching things to do with the battle. Funniest part was when the people dressed up as the various factions tried to get people to support them through jokes and joining in with singing...

On the shinkansen again.
Day trip to Sekigahara to watch various things related to the 1600 battle there.

Seven and a half hours of musicians and singers playing/singing REBECCA songs. Also, one of the guitarists, who I got to chat to and get a signed CD of, used to be in the band. The bar even had melon-sour - somehow this was a first for me... and a second 😉😂 What an incredible day.

I may not have persuaded any crows to visit me yet, but I did have a visitor to my balcony area today.

Pretty sure that's not the reason. Highly questionable that she should be seen as a figurehead for women. There are a lot of Japanese women on social media who are hoping she doesn't get appointed as PM.

Well done Komeito.

I mean, you should never have been in a coalition with the LDP in the first place, but at least you're doing your bit now to block the Wicked Witch of the Orient becoming PM.

#NoTakaichi

Mental Health Awareness Day 10 October is Mental Health Awareness day. As I also wrote last year, it’s one of those days where I think it’s sad that we still need to have a day to raise awareness of the issues sur…

Today is World Mental Health Awareness Day. Here is a blog post I wrote about this in 2023. Be kind to each other and, perhaps more importantly, yourself.

#WorldMentalHealthAwarenessDay #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealth

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Red Fuji

As a fan of Shinobu Yaguchi, it was really cool to hear this podcast covering one of his movies, Happy Flight.

Besides movie talk, there's a lot of interesting info about the Japanese airline industry discussed as well!

It's like someone said "design the perfect sweets for Hood" 😂😂😂

I went back to my favourite cat cafe. First time since they've moved into a bigger place. They also sell merch now to help fund their cat shelter.
They cat which always scratched me in the past, it can't use its back legs after being abused by a person, rushed over to me to be stroked 🥲🥲🥲

Book Review: “The Lie She Wears” by Elle Marr Elle Marr is one of my favourite authors, so when the opportunity arose to get an advanced copy of “The Lie She Wears”, I jumped at it. One of the things that I am noticing about Elle&#…

Book Review: “The Lie She Wears” by Elle Marr

#BookReview #TheLieSheWears #ElleMarr

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It would have been rude not to stop at the takoyaki place.
Pleased I did had a great time.

Gotta love it when about the closest restaurant to your accommodation in Osaka is an okonomiyaki restaurant.

There's also a takoyaki place almost next door.