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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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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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1.5 Million Tons of Umami
This is a question I have asked myself many times over the years spent here in Japan: If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn’t everyone in Asia have…
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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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Hi!
I poke your eye out! So this is it. Right about now, the sweet memories of my vacation to Thailand are almost completely pushed out of my day-to-day consciousness, so…
