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Howdy, I'm MG Siegler. I’m a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch. This is where I collect things.
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It’s just too bad “the Japanese hate the iPhone”. They just hate it so much.
(Did I beat Gruber to the joke?)
It’s too bad the Japanese hate the iPhone or Apple might have finished better than first.
In 2004, due to typhoons, the Shinkansen total annual delays were 42 seconds. It was a disgrace to Japan. (source)
If a train were to be late for 5 minutes, everyone receives a free journey and an apology from the conductor. If a train is delayed 10 minutes, it would be in the newspaper.
So to say train delays are serious business would be an understatement. And last week, knowing what I knew about trains and average delays, I began snapping the following photos, unfolding in time, to mark the first major delay of a Japanese Shinkansen in 2011.
This was one of my favorite things about Japan. Everything was exactly on time. Always.
I also love that there are no tips. You pay exactly what is on the menu.
What you see is exactly what you get.
Tags japan Shinkansen
Reblogged from Connected Travelling Source connectedtravelling
Had a busy day — hadn’t had a chance to hop on Tumblr until now. See all these icons with Japanese flags overlaid on them in my stream. Immediately understand what’s going on. Look to the right side of the Dashboard. Donation took 3 seconds. Easiest thing in the world. Ingenious implementation.

I did it. I survived vacation.
Yes, that sounds lame, but I wasn’t sure how easy it would be to not work for 16 consecutive days since I had never taken a real vacation before. And at times, it wasn’t that easy to just not work. But it was definitely worth it. And I hope to do the same thing at least once a year from here on out.
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When it’s 40 degrees outside in Tokyo, the obvious thing to do is pay $70 to go into a bar where it’s 20 degrees. But hey, drinks in ice glasses!
Baseball In Japan (by MG Siegler)
After a grand slam to put the Giants up 4-1 over the rival Tigers.

We’re on the back 9 on the Japan trip now (coming back the 18th), so I thought I’d follow up post 1 and 2 about Japan with a third one.
The Magic Kyoto Toilet on Vimeo
It’s alive!
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