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- Suika what the…?
- October 15th, 2009Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Summer is now just humid haze in the back of our minds, and as winter approaches, I can only hope that it brings with it a public spectacle that will entertain me even half as much as suikawari. This traditional past time is reminiscent of the Mexican piñata, interest ... » Continue Reading
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- Book Review: The Year of No Money in Tokyo
- October 14th, 2009Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Any foreigner who's been in Japan for a while can tell you that there's a lot of ups and downs to living life out here. As a country, Japan seems to prize itself on it's homogeny, and as such, one sees everything from the Japanese government's 1986 proud announceme ... » Continue Reading
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- A recipe for fun
- October 13th, 2009Category: Arts & Entertainment, Travel
- Weave forty plus tons of rice straw into a rope and make it a little over two city blocks long. Because of its size and to keep it from blocking traffic, you’ll have to divide it into halves. Once everything is in place, go ahead and invite 250,000 or so of your close ... » Continue Reading
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- Summertime Gives Way to the Autumn Fields-Akita
- October 9th, 2009Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Hey there Everyone! Akie here to bring all that is cool and nice about Akita. And speaking of cool and nice, I wanna talk about the sure sign of the changing season – rice. That’s right, and you know, I can hardly believe that just a few blogs back, I was talking ... » Continue Reading
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- Get off the couch, English teachers, get in the game!
- October 6th, 2009Category: Teaching in Japan
- There seems to be less opportunity for English teachers these days. Since the Lehman crash it seems that many companies are not seeking the services of language teachers. Those companies who formerly required English teachers, for a benefit for the staff, or as a poss ... » Continue Reading
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- The Tomori Lion
- September 30th, 2009Category: Travel
- It can be seen both inside and on the cover of several books about the battle of Okinawa. Some of them show only the solitary stone lion, perched on a knoll that is completely barren of vegetation. Other pictures show army artillery observers hunkered down beside it a ... » Continue Reading
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- The “Wild West” of Japan
- September 28th, 2009Category: Travel
- With lots of wide, open spaces, farmland, and clear, cerulean blue skies, Hokkaido could certainly be called the “wild west” of Japan (ignore the fact that it’s in a far eastern country and is in the northernmost part of it). It’s even possible to see black and white ... » Continue Reading
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- Shirakawa-koen: A Work of Art.
- September 28th, 2009Category: Travel
- I find attending art exhibitions in Japan to be a frustrating experience. The prices are often extortionate, the pieces badly displayed, and the visitors herded through like cattle on their way to an abattoir. Exhibitions of work by artists like Monet, Dali, Van Gogh ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese face covers keep clothes makeup free
- September 25th, 2009Category: Shopping
- Barring confusion with a still from some shopping mall horror flick, this photo from a Japanese dressing room might be rather self-explanatory. Whenever women want to try on clothes in Japan, they will usually find a box of nearly transparent fabric slips in the corne ... » Continue Reading
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- Gujo-Hachiman: Are You Dancing?
- September 24th, 2009Category: Arts & Entertainment, Travel
- Gujo is rightly famous for it’s dance festival, considered amongst the top three in the country by whoever decides these things. Initiated over 400 years ago in an act of socialist generosity by Endo Yoshitaka, the festival was meant as a way of levelling Japan’s rigi ... » Continue Reading
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- Hajisui no to
- September 17th, 2009Category: Travel
- On the northern outskirts of Nago city along a mountain road is a small stone monument marked by a lone sign along the highway. Many travelers who go this way in a hurry to points elsewhere will pass it right by without paying it any mind. Being nothing more than a st ... » Continue Reading
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- Lookin’ good at the beach with my bijin friends
- August 22nd, 2009Category: Travel
- Hey, how's your summer going? Up here in Akita where I live, we are having an unseasonably cool summer...Not that I'm complaining mind you, but it does cut back on my days at the beach! And I love the beach! Akita has some really nice sandy beaches along the cent ... » Continue Reading
