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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…
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Japanese Rantfest 2004
(Be warned, I just stubbed my toe REALLY HARD on an old printer someone left in the hallway for pickup tomorrow. The following passage was brought to you by the…
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LET’S ENGLISH !!!
Reading this article about a study that found early English education in Japan to be useless (link found on Nippon Goro Goro) reminded me of the story of a Japanese…
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Infamy
Many Japanese remember Pearl Harbor differently: Pearl Harbor Part 1 Pearl Harbor Part 2 Then again, I remember a walk in the park back in high school. December 7th. Fountain…
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Stupid Fucking Gaijin, et al
Discriminating against an odiferous goatfucking porch monkey penis-eating gaijin shithead isn’t illegal in Japan… But you should sue the fuckers for doing it to you anyway! So sez Debito: Get…
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Everybody Hurts
Asking why Crown Princess Masako had a nervous breakdown is like asking why they kept Emperor Showa on life support for so goddamn long. Subjugated people in general, but especially…
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Hi! We’re Mormons!
One of the curious things you may find as you venture deeper into the rural areas of Japan is the surprising number of Mormon missionaries. Of all the missionaries –…
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Our NOBLE – and INTELLIGENT – friends, the fish, are SCREAMING!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No wonder Jaws had such gnarly anger management issues. Volunteer line for the ASPCF starts here. Update: “…and there he saw a mock. It wasn’t a MOCK! It was…