Happy new year! Bonne année ! あけましておめでとう! 🙂

Sharing a pic of the wonderfully tasty Osechi - the typical Japanese new year's dish - my wife prepared for us today 🙂 #happynewyear #Japan #Osechi #JapaneselifeinParis

Eerie chimeras from the roof of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral I pictured this week. Did you know that unlike their gargoyle counterparts they were only added in the 19th century? 🙂 #Paris #NotreDamedeParis #chimeras #gargoyles #chimera #gargoyle #sculpture

C’est avec émotion que j’apprends la disparition de Patricia Lyfoung, autrice de la bande dessinée « Rose Ecarlate » ici en 2000, collaborant à un film d'animation de Sav! The World Productions. Nous avions prévu l'année dernière de nous revoir prochainement. C’est trop injuste😥

Happy valentines day to all Oban fans! :)

Happy birthday to the ever beautiful #EiffelTower. Exactly 136 years ago today, Gustave Eiffel climbed the 1710 steps of the monument and raised a giant French flag on top to mark its completion. I wish I could have witnessed it with my own eyes! 😊 #TourEiffel #GustaveEiffel

Enjoyed a great performance from Kenshi Yonezu tonight at the Zenith in Paris - all the more enjoyable when one knows how difficult it is to get tickets for his concerts in Japan 🙂 #KenshiYonezu #jpop #Paris

Gustave Eiffel's ancestors came from the Eifel region, in Germany, around 1700, and more precisely from the town of #Marmagen, which we had the pleasure of visiting  this week 🙂 #eiffel #GustaveEiffel #eiffeltower #toureiffel

A fantasy fan's dream castle come true: Burg Eltz, in the lander of Rhineland-Palatinate, which I had the pleasure of visiting this week 🙂 #fantasy #middleages #castles #castle #Eifel

The always beautiful Eiffel Tower 🙂 #toureiffel #eiffeltower #eiffel #gustaveeiffel

The dark silhouette of Notre-Dame at night fall, as its painstaking restauration continues... #notredame #paris

Crazy storm in Paris last night. Waking up in with my neighborhood filled with broken branches and even large trees that just snapped in two! 😳 #paris #storm #tempête #changementclimatique #climatechange

Tuesday was the 75th anniversary of Japan's membership to UNESCO, an important date that marked the gradual readmission of the country in international organizations. I was honored to be a guest at the celebrations held in Paris 🙂 #japan #Japon #nihon #unesco #mcjp

Last Friday at #Japanexpo, I took part with balak🍑💨 in a conference on the influence of Japan on French artists & possible future collaborations between the 2 countries. The path we opened with #ObanStarRacers will hopefully soon lead to more, including Sav the World's own!🙂

A typical weekend in Sunshine street, Tokyo 🙂 #tokyo #Ikebukuro #cosplay #Japan #sunshinestreet

Interresting Japanese space-saving concept of having a church on the 2nd floor and two chinese restaurants on the 1st! 🙂 #tokyo #Japan #ikebukuro #Japon #churcheswithchineserestaurantsonthe1stfloor

The grand-father of manga and anime - Hokusai - is celebrated at the Creative Museum of Tokyo. A large selection of his famed "mangas" (1814-1878) are on display and its easy to see how influential they have been 🙂 #mangas #anime #hokusai #Tokyo #manga

Cannot leave Japan without a visit to the Eiffel Tower's little sister: the Tokyo tower (1958 - 332 m) 🙂 #tokyo #japan #japon #tokyotower #tourdetokyo