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- Where is your home?
- August 4th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- How do you define home? By your marital status? social status? birth place? Or your sense of belonging? I guess most of you may feel Japan is your 'home', although not 100% but to some degree perhaps. Because you have been living in here for a while, a couple of ... » Continue Reading
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- Who Knew That Behind These Walls…
- August 3rd, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- …lies a secret room where you and your ten best friends can solve all the problems of the world while knocking back a few cold ones? I thought I’d found the ideal backstreets getaway when a Japanese friend introduced me to the Café & Bar Ebisubashi, with its boo ... » Continue Reading
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- Wii U Pulled from British Stores
- August 2nd, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- Another crushing blow was dealt to Nintendo this week, as the Walmart owned Asda Stores Limited, a British supermarket chain, said it would no longer be stocking the Wii U in their stores. Although the console will still be available via Asda's online shopping serv ... » Continue Reading
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- A Visit to a Prison Themed Restaurant in Tokyo
- August 1st, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- Japan is well known for its themed restaurants, there is nowhere in the world that you would find a restaurant based solely on Alice in Wonderland and then another one that makes you feel like you have just landed in Space, all in one city. But that is exactly what ... » Continue Reading
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- The History of the Toyota Crown
- July 31st, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- The Toyota Crown is one of Japan’s longest running sedans still in production that has recently been released in its fourteenth generation. Since its first release into the Japanese market in 1955, the Crown has served as a steady performer in the Toyota line-up for ... » Continue Reading
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- The One Who Never Stops: An Interview With Angela Ortiz
- July 31st, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- O.G.A. for Aid is a non-profit organization in Minamisanriku, a town devastated by the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami in Tohoku. I first met Angela Ortiz, 25-year-old director of Administration for O.G.A. for Aid, a couple of years ago when she began organizing 3.11 vo ... » Continue Reading
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- GP Women: Hey Girl, Nail Quick is Pretty Awesome
- July 30th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- This one’s for you, savvy interweb lady. Are you sure Ryan Gosling? OPI is ¥2100 here. If you don’t love the Ryan memes I can’t help you. But I know someone who can help you with your hands if your too lazy to do your mani yourself, or you suck at it, which is ok ... » Continue Reading
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- Top 10 Worst Sonic Characters Ever
- July 25th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- When Sonic the Hedgehog first hit the scene in the early 1990s, he was one of the most beloved and adored computer gaming characters of all time. In the follow up game, Sonic 2, he was joined by Tails (also known as Miles) a flying fox and then by Knuckles, an anti- ... » Continue Reading
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- The differences between studying in Japan and studying back home.
- July 25th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- One minute, you’re being taught one way, the next minute you’re being taught completely differently. You get dropped in the deep end and at times find it hard to stay afloat. This was how a lot of people I know felt when they started studying Japanese at a Universit ... » Continue Reading
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- Hangover Beauty Tricks (or How to Not Look Like Death After an All-Nighter)
- July 23rd, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- A few beauty tips for both Boy and Girl Partiers (that’s pretty much all of you). Japan is the land of two-fisted drinkers. The war stories are ugly. I’m not a drinker, but I’ve heard tale on more than one occasion of teachers passing out on trains and ending up ... » Continue Reading
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