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Suspense (killing you it must be)
I am in the middle of researching the most important subject I will ever post on – that’s right! – even more important than Japanese fish sausage, although if you…
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“That’s not my belly button, sensei!”
No matter how much amusement it would have provided in the years to come, I could not, in good conscience, allow an acquaintance to name his new children’s English conversation…
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Japan doesn’t need Wally World
An interview with Aeon CEO Motoya Okada: Japan’s Answer to Wal-Mart? Excerpt: Q: So what can you do to resolve this? A: Well, we will continue to enhance our supply…
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Family Matters
I have quite a few relatives in Japan, and have met many of them over the course of my stay here. They are all from my father’s side of the…
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Japan is a gun-free society…
… where people often get shanked. I never used to be fazed by shit like this in the news because over the years I just became numb to it. When…
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72 Virgin Goats
It occurs to me that on a scale of Loserdom, a white supremacist with a mother named Maria Del Prado is second only to these suicide bombers you occasionally see…
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Japanese Toilet Paper
I am not the only person who has scraped his asshole raw with the sandpaper commonly dispensed in public toilets in Japan. This is fact. However, I may be the…
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A twist on the old bean hurling
Yesterday was setsubun, the traditional Japanese new year, and we celebrated accordingly. I got home from a long day at work, the GF touched my arm and said “you’re it!,”…
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A Brief History of Japanese Fish Sausage
*Not to be confused with Japanese Fish Cake (“kamaboko“) Early attempts at manufacturing sausages from fish meat (employing cellophane or sheep innards as the outer wrapper/skin) have been traced back…
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Shopping Alert
If you are a techno gadget freak, this is not news to you but I’m posting this for all other forms of life in Japan: BUY AN LCD MONITOR RIGHT…
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Endangered Specieswatch: The Humpbacked Obachan
I am too respectful to post a pic, but believe me, I have surreptitiously photographed several. Yes, Concerned Reader, it is true: The Humpbacked Obachan is on the verge of…
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The Other, Other White Meat
Go check out the Evil Sandmich’s continued writings on his adventures in Japanese cuisine last year: LINK Excerpts: One morning they had a little hit of ketchup with the Japanese…