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Lights Out

My apartment is pretty small, dark and airless so I have to leave the lights on in nearly every room to keep them lit sufficiently to work in them. It's not that there are no windows, but rather that the surrounding buildings block out a lot of the light... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life

from So-Called Japanese Life on Sun, Feb 24 2008

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28 Mar 08		TOKYO LIGHTS*  »  YouTube videoWhen I think of Japan, what I remember most is the lights of Tokyo: the neons, the street lights, the billboards, the advertisements, the signs, etc. There is more artificial light in this city than any other place I've seen, yet when night breaks, like...
18 Dec 07		Something not quite right  »  Timorous Beastie I get out of the lift in our apartment building and as I’m walking along the long, rubbery corridor towards our flat, something catches my eye. Through the window at the end, I see the lights of another house. Buildings do tend to sprout up like mushroo...
06 Mar 08		A Heavenly Stay  »  Life as a Gaijin A hotel tucked in among the trees on the oceans edge, a room the size of my entire apartment, no sound except for the lapping of waves and bird calls, sea hawks circling above, at night no lights except for the odd ship on the horizon, a morning sit on a...
06 Jun 08		Turn off your lights and spend a candle night in Osaka  »  TreeHugger How do you get thousands of people to turn off their lights and use less electricity? Since 2003, a small group of people in Japan have managed to do just that through the Candle Night events. Some 3,000,000 kilowatts of energy were saved during last...
17 Mar 08		Liteplug: LED Nightlight + Emergency Flashlight  »  TreeHugger Designed to help keep the lights on during and after the frequent earthquakes (and resulting power outages) in Japan, "Liteplug" is a combination motion-sensing nightlight/emergency flashlight. Leave it plugged in to the wall, and, as it gets dark when...
14 May 08		Latest car-nav checks home lights, locks  »  Japan Times Drivers can check on their pets, turn their home lights off and on and lock the front door — all from inside their cars — with a new car-navigation system from Panasonic. Read the full story . . .

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