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- Japanese Castle Explorer
- June 18th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Daniel O'Grady has spent the last nine years of his life documenting Japanese castles. His site, Japanese Castle Explorer, is an amazing Google Maps mashup showcasing a huge number of castles in Japan, as well as those constructed in Japanese armies elsewhere in As ... » Continue Reading
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- EtonHouse Preschool in Japan
- June 16th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- EtonHouse International is a Singapore based Education Group that will be opening its first center this August. The campus will be in Tokyo and they are hiring English and Chinese language teachers now (you can check their jobs here). The preschool has been a hug ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese Blood Typing – You are what you bleed
- June 16th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- A cool infographic going through the internets at the moment – Japanese Bloodtyping. It's becoming a well-known a popular Japanese belief that a person's ABO blood type or ketsueki-gata (血液型) is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with other ... » Continue Reading
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- Hakone Ryokan Experience
- June 9th, 2010Category: Outdoor/Sports
- Hakone is one of the most popular destinations in Japan and is located just 1 hour by train from central Tokyo, making it the perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle of city life. The rural town boasts hot springs, outdoor activities, parks, traditional attrac ... » Continue Reading
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- The Senbei Cafe
- June 9th, 2010Category: Starting a Business
- This is Takako Endo (遠藤 貴子) – the lady entrepreneur behind a new food brand, Twhy Twhy. Tokyoite Takako has just launched the new website – www.senbeicafe.com – from which she sells senbei (rice crackers) in a variety of cool and unusual flavors. For example, visit th ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese Discounts
- June 4th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Tokyo Media, which just launched last week is described as “an interactive communication media” - is a new way for you to save money and find out what is going on locally in Tokyo. Combining digital signage and mobile phones, folks passing by Lawson con ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan Social Apartments
- June 2nd, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Pic taken of the inside of a 'social apartment' in Matsubara-Danchi, Saitama. Social Apartments is a new kind of guest house which aims to dispel the image of old, smelly and cramped and replace it with all the mod-cons you'd expect to find in an upmarket serviced ... » Continue Reading
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- iPad Japan Launch
- May 28th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- The Softbank store on Omotesando saw plenty of people in line this morning, most of whom had been there overnight too. This has turned out to be one of the few locations in Tokyo that will have a small amount of extra iPad stock for people without a reservation and ... » Continue Reading
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- Cool Ja-pon: 100 Japanese Books with Global Appeal
- May 27th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- A month-long book fair featuring 100 Japanese books with just the thing to attract a worldwide readership will be held at the Yurindo bookstore in Akihabara – the event is open now and runs through to June 30. Yurindo bookstore is located on inside of the electronic ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese Pepsi
- May 26th, 2010Category: Uncategorized
- Another look at some of the cool things in Japan and a new drink from the people who brought you Cucumber, Spice and Azuki flavoured cokes – Pepsi Baobab below. Special edition drinks like this can be seen on Japanese TV everyday, usually with a cute idol or two ... » Continue Reading
