Superbowl Mexican Feast night!

relaxing superbowl sunday.  Taco de cecina, carnitas, rice and beans, guacamole y chips.

THE JONES BEACH, 2011

To view the rest of beach photos (67), visit my flickr slideshow, or thumbnails.

Annual beach trip to Jones beach, Long Island.  Mr. Shige (on the right of the photo) rents a 15-passenger van, plus some folks w/ zip cars, organized by Mr. Mike Nogami.  BBQ actions and watermelon splitting (スイカ割り) . This tradition has been around since 1980's.

JAPAN CUTS 2011 - New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema

At Japan Society, July 7 - 22, 2011


Photo above is from the after party for Yakuza Weapon, with director and star Tak Sakaguchi (middle), and co-director and writer Yudai Yamaguchi (left).  To view the rest of photos (55 images), visit my flickr set or slideshow.

登戸／遊園 KARAOKE ALL NIGHT: JAPAN TRIP 2011, Part 06

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A karaoke night out with my homies in my old neighborhood, Noborito, Japan.
I used to hang out with those gals either at a karaoke box, or Mr.Donuts, almost everyday after school in my high school days. This was a pure nostalgia for me.

鎌倉 KAMAKURA: JAPAN TRIP 2011, Part 05

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On March 27th, we held a dinner party in Kamakura, an old Castle town (1192, AD) in Kanagawa.  It was such a joy for me to see my loved-ones dressed nicely, and spending some quality time together.  Thank you all for coming, I love you and miss you!  Special thanks to Mike Nogami, for coming from NYC and taking fantastic photographs.

Halloween Weekend in Philly 2009

SLIDESHOW AVAILABLE.

Yes, it' almost that time of the year.
And I'm going back to Philly again this year!
Anybody interested going to philly with us, our back seats are open!

Yoshiko's Birthday Time 2008

Right about 2 years ago.
Best time of the year!
To view the full coverage, visit my flickr slideshow or thumbnails.

"A Tokyo Wedding" Now available as a book!

"A Tokyo Wedding" is a photographic documentation of our friend, kimie's (you may know her from  "Kimie's Story", a few posts back) wedding day in May 16th. 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.
It was created by Ayumi Sakamoto and Ronald Patane (A.K.A Hugheaven) as a wedding gift.

New Year's Eve 2009

at Bohemian.
To view the full coverage of the night, visit my flickr slideshow or thumbnails.

At Kimie's Wedding Party, 2nd Location

at La Fabrique, a kind of club/Lounge, or basement type space, located in Shibuya, right on the bottom of Spain Hill (スペイン坂）.

It's a picture from Kimie's upcoming Wedding Book. I'm in a middle of photo-editing and re-touchings.

July 4th House warming party, 2009

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Chizu, the Sake Sommelier's farewell party at Sakagura

Getting drunk with the top-shelf selections of Sake at Sakagura.
To view the full coverage, visit my flickr site:
http://flickr.com/photos/28448811@N05/sets/72157606974751786/show/

Once in a life time, The prime time party in Seattle

A wedding deserves to be the biggest party in one's life.
Congratulation Dave and Shirlae.

For the full coverage of the wedding parties, visit below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28448811@N05/sets/