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The Port City of Osaka, Japan

PB210110 Konnichiwa from Osaka, Japan! Finally - I have the opportunity to write a decently sized blog post about my ventures in Japan so far. Unfortunately, as you will see, there isn’t too much to show off in Osaka - think of it as being the Newcastle to Sydney, but about 100 times bigger.

In-school Program Uses Pokémon to Teach Science to Elementary Students

How Bizarre. Nintendo of America, The National Institute of Aerospace, and Nortel LearniT have partnered up a program which teaches basic science to elementary and middle school students. This leaves me wondering whether or not the same will be applied to our schools in Sydney. Heck, I would have benefited from it back in 1996 when Pokemon first came out on the original GB~

Wine no Hajimekata - Drool over the DS in Stylus

According to DengekiOnline.com Nintendo DS Customers as well as wine connoisseurs will be priveleged to enjoy two luxuries of life at the same time, with a new game called Hajimekata no DS. According to my patchy Japanese from high school, roughly translates to “Wine Starter / Beginner DS”. It should be a relatively fun game to play as it’s being developed by games conglomerate Square Enix, an organisation most famous for its Final Fantasy Series.