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  • Starting a Business in Japan
    February 8th, 2010By Category: Starting a Business
    Today we look at the Echoes Tokyo offices that the GaijinPot film crew visited to talk about what it's like for a foreigner to go from working as staff to owning their own business in Japan. Starting a Business in Japan from GaijinPot on Vimeo. Echoes Tokyo is an ... » Continue Reading
  • The Other Side of Shinjuku
    February 5th, 2010By Category: Travel, Video
    Shinjuku from GaijinPot on Vimeo. So what's your image of Shinjuku? Anyone hanging out in Shinjuku for a bit will expect to find the department stores, pachinko parlors, plenty of places to eat and the millions of people who pass through them all everyday. In the ... » Continue Reading
  • Loft Japan
    February 3rd, 2010By Category: Shopping, Video
    Loft stores target homeowners and hobbyists and are a gift from the gods when it comes to hunting down cool things to decorate your home with. Inside you can find just about everything you will need, everything including kitchenware, furniture, home accessories, office ... » Continue Reading
  • More Comiket
    February 2nd, 2010By Category: Arts & Entertainment, Video
    A week ago we ran a video that GaijinPot filmed during Comiket. The video has been one of the most popular so far (plenty more to come too) and led to fellow Vimeo user Vincent Follézou getting in touch with his own video from the event. He kindly let us publish it ... » Continue Reading
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    Japanese Hatsumoude
    February 1st, 2010By Category: Video
    The first month of 2010 is out of the way and it seems like as good a time as any to review how your new year resolutions are going. Have you broken any yet? In Japan, it is more traditional to make a wish for the new year at a shrine, and over the holidays, GaijinP ... » Continue Reading
  • Video: Japanese Horror Movies
    January 27th, 2010By Category: Video
    Yūrei (幽霊) is a Japanese word used to describe all kinds of spirits, or ghosts, that became famous with the boom in Japanese horror movies that started with The Ring. GaijinPot met with Clive Davies, an author based in Japan and writer of an awesome look at movies ... » Continue Reading
  • Video: Comiket
    January 25th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    If you are not sure what it is, Comiket is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, gathering of comic fans in the world – you can see just how big it is in the video below. Dōjinshi (同人誌) are self-published comic works created by Japanese fans of manga and novels and ... » Continue Reading
  • Kobe Hotels: La Suite Kobe
    January 25th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    GaijinPot Review Nao Kimura (Special contributor) I stumbled on the website for the Hotel La Suite Kobe, from a city listings site so I decided to check it out as part of a planned weekend R&R - somewhere we could be treated by like royalty, enjoy some g ... » Continue Reading
  • Video: Kichijōji, Tokyo’s Art Colony
    January 22nd, 2010By Category: Video
    Just 20 minutes from Shinjuku on the Chuo (Sobu) line from Shinjuku and sitting in the center of a number of parks and universities, Kichijoji is one of Tokyo's most desirable residential neighborhoods.  It offers some of the city's best ohanami (お花見) viewing in the sak ... » Continue Reading
  • Japanese Emoji Stamp
    January 14th, 2010By Category: Uncategorized
    As GaijinPot writer Steve Nagata pointed out in his piece on the Sanyo Eneloop, Japan is the land of over engineered solutions to mundane everyday problems - usually involving complex engineering and product design (just see the toilets).  In this case though, we have ... » Continue Reading

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