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- A stranger offers a simple kindness
- March 15th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- Words do not come easily at moments like these. As I looked upon the ruins of what once was Rikuzen Takada in Iwate Prefecture, I thought of the words of the Japanese poet Basho, who referring to another era in Japanese history wrote, The whole country devastated onl ... » Continue Reading
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- Visa: the required tool to live in Japan for foreigners
- March 14th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- Foreign people need to have a visa to live ad work in Japan. There are 27 kinds of visa established by the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act. However, there are two kinds of visa that the act did not establish. One is a "special permanent resident" visa ... » Continue Reading
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- Popular Brazilian supermarket in Gunma offers Seven Bank money transfer service
- March 12th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- There is a popular Brazilian supermarket, Super Mercado TAKARA, in Oura, Gunma Prefecture. Brazilian people come to this supermarket from as far away as Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures where many Brazilians and Japanese-Brazilians live and work. The supermarket's wide ... » Continue Reading
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- Share Designers College Tama Plaza – “SHARE de COLLEGE”
- March 7th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- Special campaign for GaijinPot and Real Estate Japan readers!!Apply by 31st March and you will get 50% off on the 1st month rent!For 20 years, there was a dormitory managed in a quaint, little residential area near Tama Plaza station. Then came the 3.11 earthquake and ... » Continue Reading
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- Retailers report surging demand for disaster and emergency goods
- March 7th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- According to an article in the Yomiuri Shimbun on Jan 23, seismologists at the University of Tokyo have ratcheted up the possibility of the Kanto area being struck by a large earthquake. These data have been vigorously disputed by other vernacular media, but Nik ... » Continue Reading
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- My memories of 3.11
- March 5th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- Katrina, Australian, Female, Tokyo "On that fateful day I was teaching some private students, three Japanese ladies, all in their sixties, in Tokyo. They were visibly scared, saying it was the worst earthquake they had ever felt. Thinking that they had had a lot of ... » Continue Reading
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- Inspire your creativity – “Social Apartment” set to open March 11th, 2012!
- February 29th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- Limited Time Offer!! – Attend the open house event and get free rent for the month of March! See below for details! Social Apartment Wako promises to push the boundaries of quality of designer living in terms of appeal. With interior spaces created by world renowne ... » Continue Reading
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- Say cheese – with Lotteria’s new burgers
- February 29th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- Japanese fast food chain Lotteria will release some new types of cheese hamburgers from March 22 -- Cheese & Cheese Burger and Cheese & Cheese Double Burger. The Cheese & Cheese Burger will be priced at 240 yen and 570 yen for the combo meal with M ... » Continue Reading
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- Gov’t enlists AKB48 as ‘gatekeepers’ for suicide prevention
- February 27th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- The Cabinet Office has enlisted mega-popular all-girl idol group AKB48 to help raise awareness of the government’s suicide prevention campaign. Members of the group appear on a new poster to be distributed nationwide from March. It replaces an earlier poster that w ... » Continue Reading
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- Key Japanese: Important terms for apartments
- February 27th, 2012Category: Uncategorized
- This is where house hunting usually starts in Japan and where you can find what the average rents are for apartments in your area. To help you get started in navigating the confusing but important world of Japanese real estate, Kumon has put together this handy guide ... » Continue Reading
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