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Foreign tw@ts at Tsukiji
Earlier this year I wrote about how foreign tourists are no longer really welcome at Tsukiji fish market. To better understand why this situation came about, I present this video…
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Zato #7 – Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword
All previous Zatoichi posts
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Exercising Atrophied Illustrator Muscles
Well it took a whole day, but I finished our nengajo (traditional Japanese New Years cards) design! Yay! Max helped out by drooling on my keyboard and now all we…
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Shin Sekai Redux Repeat Rehash
There used to be a blue traffic sign if you drove into Shin Sekai from Namba welcoming you to SIN SEKAI. It might even still be there. When we were…
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Taro Aso is the man with the gauge
…and a gauge is what you would need to shake up Japanese politics. The Japanese are justifiably apathetic about their leaders… Take a 12 gauge to the world stage, that’s…
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Don’t forget the J-Pop segment…
more music charts LOLZR!!
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Mahoroba is Japanese Arcadia
Max was overtired and sleep-deprived today, so he just threw a big fit on and off for a couple hours. It was impossible to get any work done, but I…
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Murasaki Inu
A lifetime ago (13 or 14 years ago to be a bit more exact) I sat in a stuffy classroom in Tenri, Japan, and started penning my first essay in…
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Zatoichi #6
I don’t even have time to watch Zato anymore, but I love these graphics and wanted to continue from where I left off a couple years ago in Japan. All…
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Ekusupato vs. Ekisupato
Is there anything more annoying than the jet set expert on (pick any foreign country)? I just read a guide to eating sushi by a self-proclaimed successful author who visited…
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Anticlimactic story of the year
5/27: Japanese customs dish out free dope 5/28: Japanese customs reunited with lost dope ///////////////////////////////////////////////// I was just thinking: 1,000,000 Yen / 142 grams = 7,042 Yen / gram Bob…
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Thai ATM Horror Story
So today turned out to be a big bummer because of the stupid Thai banking system. In short, I tried to withdraw 20,000 Baht from my Japanese bank with an…
