Author Archives: Richard Graham

You can tell it’s Winter

You can tell it’s getting cold now, because no sooner did I try to get to sleep last night than my asthma started. This always happens in the winter in Japan and it’s not fun! : ( It didn’t actually help that my girlfriend had decided to tidy everywhere up so there was dust flying…

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Serial Numbers

Got my new computer today – yeah!! The thing is that until I put all my stuff on it, it’s not that much fun!! The first impression was “eh… it’s huge and noisy!”. It seems like computer technology has gone downhill over the last 2 years, with machines much bigger but only slightly faster than…

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The New Maruzen

This new Maruzen store has to be one of the prime real estate locations in the entire World, it is literally right in front of the main entrance to Tokyo station! My presentation was at 11:20 and in the beginning there weren’t that many people present, and I was a bit worried that the typhoon…

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Typhoon!

Today I met with yet another publisher! This one also happens to be a mate, so it was great to just chat for ages about all sorts of ideas. One really cool thing that came up was a Junior High School resources section of the site, which could be interesting. Plus a million and one…

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Tokyo – Bad Day, Good Night

Plan for today was writing. But it was just horrible weather outside so as usual, everything I wrote just sounded dull and depressing! So a pretty much totally wasted day! But then in the evening I went out with the publishers of my Kids English series and that was, as usual, lots of fun! With…

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Publishing & Music Stores

Today my plan was to hit the big music stores in Shibuya to see what new keyboards and music making stuff they have. But the morning was spent pretty much on the phone and instant messaging with loads of different people. Then in the afternoon I was asked to visit a publisher about maybe making…

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