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- Crime and Punishment in Japan
- May 24th, 2013Category: Legal Issues
- Japan’s antiquated penal system is certainly a bone of contention of Amnesty International, who have previously expressed worry not only in the continued use of the death penalty but also the treatment of prisoners on death row and prisoners in general population. ... » Continue Reading
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- A Different Dining Experience at Donryu
- May 24th, 2013Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Food & Dining, Travel
- My husband and I was lucky to find this interesting restaurant around our area. We were actually trying to find a cool place to eat, something new, so we ended up going a little further. We ended up in a really nice area full of restaurants and bars, almost all of th ... » Continue Reading
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- Sell-up or ship-up: moving your whole apartment to Japan
- May 23rd, 2013Category: Apartments, Coming to Japan, Mail & Shipping
- When confronted with the prospect of moving half-way around the world, it is sometimes hard to know where to begin. Like Cynthia mentioned in her recent article, I had reached that stage where I had furniture I genuinely liked and which wasn't as easy to replace a ... » Continue Reading
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- Learning from defeat and redefining Tokyo’s Olympic dream
- May 23rd, 2013Category: Culture, Events
- In October 2009, during the 121st Session of the International Olympic Committee, a vote was held to determine the Olympic host city for 2016. Tokyo was knocked out in the second round of voting, behind Madrid and, the eventual winners, Rio de Janeiro. The current T ... » Continue Reading
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- Terry Christian & Cool Hand @ Crawfish – Benefit Event for O.G.A for Aid June 8
- May 22nd, 2013Category: Events, Japan Earthquake
- Come join us at CRAWFISH in Akasaka, Saturday June 8th 7:30~ Terry Christian has teamed up with O.G.A for Aid to bring a wonderful night of amazing music for a good cause! Terry will be bringing along with him other amazing artists like... Michael & Keiko Fog ... » Continue Reading
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- New Rice Burger at Mos Burger
- May 22nd, 2013Category: Food & Dining, Travel
- MOS Burger (モスバーガ) is a popular Japanese fast food chain that originated in Japan. MOS stands for Mountain Ocean Sun. MOS Burger is famous for their original burger, which is called the MOS Burger. They are also famous for their unique burgers such as the MOS Rice Bu ... » Continue Reading
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- Happiness is an Empty Pavement
- May 21st, 2013Category: Culture, Outdoor/Sports
- Bikes, bicycles, ‘pedal-powered chariots of emancipation’ or however you choose to describe them are, for folks living in Japan, a stable fixture on roads, paths and pretty much anywhere you can imagine. On a trip to Osaka, I once saw a man cycling through Namba ... » Continue Reading
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- “High Tension”???
- May 21st, 2013Category: Learning Japanese
- 【Hai Tenshon ハイテンション】 In Japan they often say “high tension” or “the tension is high” to mean elation or excitement. This is a Japanese-made phrase made up of English words. “Tension” in English means tenseness, anxiety, stress, or voltage, so if you translat ... » Continue Reading
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- The Five Salarymen You Meet in Heaven. (And by Heaven, I mean just wherever…)
- May 20th, 2013Category: Coming to Japan, Culture
- Sal-a-ry-man (サラリーマン) 1) a person whose income is salary-based; a white-collar businessman 2) that un-genki dude on the train, dressed in black, reeking of Chu-hi and low-level distain. I didn’t know what a salaryman was when I came to Japan, but it didn’t take long ... » Continue Reading
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- Snow, County and the Wildness of Words
- May 17th, 2013Category: Teaching in Japan
- Yasunari Kawabata won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968, mostly as a result of his novel, Snow Country. Called Yukiguni in Japanese, it is the subtly portrayed account of a businessman who visits a hot spring town in winter and his relationships with a popular ge ... » Continue Reading
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- Never ask a direct question… but remember to use only 5 words
- May 17th, 2013Category: Culture
- Never --my cultural guidebook told me-- ask a direct question to a Japanese person. Saying 'no' in such an instance is akin to losing face and they may return a positive answer without actually meaning they agree. It was undoubtedly supposed to be helpful advice ... » Continue Reading
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- Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like Jimmy Lee
- May 16th, 2013Category: Events, Living in Japan
- Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like Jimmy Lee By Jimmy "The Thunder From Down Under" Lee I grew up a fan to big boxing names like Ali, Sugay Ray Leonard, Tyson and the rest so when Executive Fight Night 2 come around I was quite excited to actually give it a try ... » Continue Reading
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