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Fo tha Ho
This one is for the Big Ho, who once wrote to me about his one-eyed cat and how it likes eating used Q-Tips: WHY DO CATS LIKE EATING EARWAX ??…
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Osteophage Society Memberships Available Now!
A tribute to everyone who visited/called this weekend: The Undrinkable Cocktail Thanks to you all for leaving the airag at home… Last night I watched the fireworks and slept very,…
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Remembering Hiroshima
…has been postponed for the time being in lieu of: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Celebrations started early this year, and I have one last party to get to before the…
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PETA, Rejoice!
… for I will never eat sharkfin soup again. Yesterday I was in Himeji on a business trip. After our meetings, we went to the top of Himeji castle in…
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NHK Fee Collectors
NHK is the national public broadcasting station in Japan. They send subscription fee collectors to seemingly every front door in the nation on a semi-regular basis, and in my experience,…
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There is no love in your violence…
This sounds like a scene straight from Ishi the Killer: …Nagasawa then punched the victim in the face, saying he did not answer politely enough… …Nagasawa then allegedly followed the…
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On Inspiration and Foreign Language Study
Uninspiring story #1: The Japanese girl who really went to Los Angeles in pursuit of life ala Beverly Hills 90210. (seriously.) Uninspiring story #2: Her best friend, who followed two…
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Medical Tourism in Mosonmagyarovar
So it has finally come to this: The incidental tourist An American woman opts to pay $4,300 for a ten day vacation/medical trip to Hungary where she gets dental work…
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Asbestos
Check out this article in the Guardian: Japan’s asbestos time bomb This is a HUGE problem on my island. Before they built the longest, tallest, and most expensive suspension bridge…
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Matsuda Yusaku
I totally scored an out-of-print DVD box set of the entire Tantei Monogatari (Detective Story) series on Yahoo Auctions last night! This was a very famous TV series in Japan…
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International Symbol of Marriage
Thanks to all you truly compassionate friends and readers who have sent me this over the past couple weeks – HAHA… But the joke’s on you, because in less than…
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Penki-e
Bathhouse murals fading fast in Tokyo I’ve never been to a sento in Tokyo, but I’ve seen these murals in Shizuoka and Nagano. The one in Nagano was at an…
