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Utensils, and proper usage thereof
I am extremely proud to announce that I ate an entire soboro donburi exclusively with chopsticks today. In its most basic form, this is a bowl of loose rice topped…
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Compulsory Commentary on the Japanese Elections
Summary: Koizumi is the FUCKING MAN! ALL HAIL KOIZUMI! BANZAI!!! BANZAI!!! It must be nice winning an election and watching the stock market rise like this. Plus, let’s face it,…
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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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DHL – Localization Expertise
This new box size from DHL isn’t half as funny in English as it is in Japanese (junior = penis). I’ve always wondered if the reason Carl’s Jr. went out…
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The Golden Three
These long, dreary trips out to factories way out in the country – I will not miss them. When you leave the concrete landscapes of urban sprawl and start seeing…
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Unintentional Harakiri
This is a pretty amusing video someone sent me. You should look at the tiny on-screen details the second time around in order to appreciate it fully. And now, in…
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My Ainu Roots
A while back, somebody explaining my family ancestry told me that I’m part Ainu. Which is funny, because when I first met my fiance’s dad, he said I looked part…
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Fingerprinting Correction
Did I say something about doing away with mandatory fingerprinting of gaijin yesterday? Sorry about that, what I actually meant to say is that they are doubling it: Japan plans…
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Blame the Gaijin
Another reason I’m definitely leaving Japan next year: Japan to have all foreigners carry IC cards for crime control The LDP and the government claim the new policy is aimed…
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Airin
Pronounced as the answer to, “What do you call a Japanese woman with no arms and no legs, propped against a wall?” The following quotes are from the unbelievably retarded…
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Amagasaki Train Wreck Followup
By now, everyone is probably familiar with the theory of the rookie driver derailing the train by attempting to speed through the curve, as well as the story of several…
