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There are some guys from Nokia and Ericsson that have arranged to play Innebandy also known as Floorball or Unihoc. They are looking for more participants, please see message below.

Floorball in Meguro

3/14 (Fri) 18-21 @ Chuo Tai-iku kan, Nishi-Koyama
3/18 (Fri) 18-21 @ Chuo Tai-iku kan, Nishi-Koyama
4/8 (Tue) 18-21 @ Kumin Center Meguro

Fee will be between 500 or 1000 yen depending on number of participants
(hall rental is 7300/7700 yen). Any money left over will be used for
buying more sticks, covering up for cancellations, and/or a party at the
end of the season.

Please sign up for the mailing list for future announcements by sending
a blank email to mailto:floorball-subscribe@topica.com

I have only 7 sticks, 5-6 balls and two goals so please let me know if
you have any sticks. Some of my colleagues have their own sticks, though.

More on floorball:
http://www.salibandy.net/liitto/default.asp?kieli=826
http://www.floorball.org/

Best regards,

Johan Bergquist
johan.bergquist@nokia.com

Of all forgotten old search engines, Excite has come up with an absolutely amazing service, which translates the complete webpage from Japanese to English. This means that you, without the need to learn s single Kanji, have the power to browse Japanese webpages. First they invented the wheel and now this…..

Instructions:

Go to this page: http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/
1) Type the address to the Japanese webpage you want to browse in English.
2) Change the bullet in the radio button to “Japanese to English”

3) Click on the yellow “Go” button

Not only does the page appear in English, you can continue to browse around on the page and the translator will continue to work.

For me, a new world opened up. Pages I have tested and work well are:

www.yodobashi.com
www.biccamera.com

Please let us know how this works for you and which web pages you recommend.

Many thanks to Stefan who let us know about this.

The most important thing for survival in Tokyo is probably knowing the locations of the kebab shops.

But second to that might be getting around using train and subways. Some of you might not know that there are route finders available in english, both on the web and even for your mobile phone. I have used it for a year and the service is same as the public transportation system as a whole, absolutely flawless. Check following links:

Service on the web:
http://jorudan.co.jp/english/

Instruction how to use it for your mobile phone:
http://jorudan.co.jp/english/next.html

Note 1: I think there is a pay version and a free version of the mobile access and that I am using the free version but I am not sure since I am not paying the bills or read Japanese. Please give feedback regarding this is info.

Note 2: Best kebab shop is “Kebabbox”, southeast gate in Shinjuku. Already verified and no feedback required.