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- Fukushima Love: IMA’s Tokyo Flea Market 11/17
- November 12th, 2013Category: Events
- 3/11. We hear a lot in the news about misdirected culpability and averted government responsibility, but not so much about the local causes making a direct impact on lives of the people who lived there. The fact is, there are hundreds of thousands of people from the Toh ... » Continue Reading
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- Eat, Drink, and Be Genki… Let’s Go to Osaka
- November 8th, 2013Category: Food & Dining, Shopping, Travel
- Okay Tokyo people: it’s time. The holiday hoo ha is ramping up and the leaves are changing. Get ready to hop on a train for the West Side of the island and do the tourist holy trinity: Kyoto, Nara, and Osaka. Rather than hit all of the usual castle-temple-shrine-y goodn ... » Continue Reading
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- Culture Day
- November 4th, 2013Category: Culture
- Culture Day, or 文化の日, is one of the very few holidays in Japan that is not liable to change due to the “Happy Monday” system, which sees most national holidays fall on a Monday. Culture Day is celebrated on the 3rd of November every year and gives most the day off ... » Continue Reading
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- Ahoy hoy! Pillaging Laughs with The Pirates of Tokyo Bay
- October 31st, 2013Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Wait what? A live, improv, comedy show… in two languages? But, Japanese and Western humor are so different- how does that work? They get suggestions for skits from the audience? This is MADNESS. As the only bilingual improv group in Tokyo, The Pirates of Tokyo Bay g ... » Continue Reading
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- Gifu Cormorant Fishing 2013
- October 30th, 2013Category: Culture, Events, Travel
- Ukai or Cormorant Fishing has taken place along the famous Nagara River in Gifu for more than 1300 years. It is a traditional fishing method that uses trained cormorants to catch river fish. The samurai warlord Oda Nobunaga took the ukai fisherman under his patronage an ... » Continue Reading
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- Tokyo’s Beauty Billboard Top 10: RanKing RanQueen
- October 25th, 2013Category: Shopping
- With so many beauty-girl products on the shelves, it’s easy for the foreign lady to get her brain scrambled trying to figure out what’s what. Apparently, the same applies to the local girls—hence the ranking of the bestest in beauty at RanKing RanQueen. (See what they d ... » Continue Reading
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- Gifu Nobunaga Festival 2013
- October 22nd, 2013Category: Culture, Events
- The Gifu Nobunaga Festival is held on the first Saturday and Sunday of October. The festival honours the memory and feats of Oda Nobunaga, a samurai warlord who used Gifu City as a base on his mission to unify Japan during the warring states period (Sengoku Period). It ... » Continue Reading
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- Halloween Snacks in Japan
- October 21st, 2013Category: Culture, Food & Dining
- Autumn is one of the best times of year in Japan for seasonal food and drink. Some of the seasonal delicacies include kabocha (Japanese pumpkin) kuri (chestnuts) and satsumaimo (sweet potato). During the summer I wrote about some of the summer snacks that were available ... » Continue Reading
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- Kai Azabu Juban: The BBQ SPAM incident
- October 20th, 2013Category: Food & Dining
- I was ready to review White Smoke in Azabu Juban, because I’d heard the BBQ is magical and authentic and will touch your soul in deep and meaningful ways. So I grabbed Anthony Joh, and we headed to Azabu to eat sticky stuff with our hands. You can imagine how sad we wer ... » Continue Reading
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- FAQ about traveling from Japan with Across-No.1 Travel
- October 16th, 2013Category: Travel
- We had an opportunity to sit down with Across-No.1 Travel (H.I.S.) to find out the some of the more unusual requests that they get. Of course, the most popular question was “What is the cheapest flight to (insert destination here)?” but here are five common questions t ... » Continue Reading
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