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- Can Embracing Japanese Culture Make You Forget Your Own? (Part 2)
- August 31st, 2012Category: Culture
- If you're just joining us, you can catch up on Part 1 here. Music This has been a big one for me. A prime example of how living abroad has affected , is in the genres of music that I listen to. For example, one genre of music that I really enjoy is the hip-h ... » Continue Reading
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- AKB48 member holds emotional ‘graduation’
- August 31st, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- The popular group loses one of its stars but there are plenty others to take her place in the music juggernaut. When Atsuko Maeda, a 21-year-old singer in the mega-popular girl group AKB48 gave her farewell concert on Aug 27 in Akihabara, 250,000 fans applied for ... » Continue Reading
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- Karizma in the Mix – Series of DJ performances by Karizma documented by Kumigar
- August 30th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment
- Hi everyone, this week, I want to share a video I made as a tribute to Karizma, who has inspired me with his amazing DJ-ing performances and encouraged me to make videos to share with my music family years back before I started doing the Dancing Chef Kumigar videos for ... » Continue Reading
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- Super Yosakoi Weekend
- August 30th, 2012Category: Arts & Entertainment, Culture, Events, Photography
- If ever you're down Harajuku way on the last weekend of August, be sure to see the Super Yosakoi dance festival. What started in Kochi in 1954 has spread across Japan and is now a highly competitive genre of dance. It booms energy, brilliantly coloured costumes and a le ... » Continue Reading
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- My Very Brief Fight with a Yakuza
- August 29th, 2012Category: Culture
- This is the story I don’t want to tell, about my fight with a Japanese gangster, because it’s so horrible. But I’ve held onto it too long already, so I’ll just lay it out. The night started out pretty much like every other, drinking with some random Japanese ... » Continue Reading
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- ANA launches Experience JAPAN Fare for foreign visitors
- August 29th, 2012Category: Travel
- All Nippon Airways has launched a new campaign for foreign visitors to Japan, called Experience JAPAN fare, which is valid through Oct 27, 2012. The campaign offers fares to any of ANA’s destinations within Japan for as low as 10,500 yen. Compared with a JR p ... » Continue Reading
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- 10 Things to do on a Budget in Tokyo
- August 28th, 2012Category: Travel
- Tokyo, Japan’s modern capital is one of the most exciting places on the planet, but this doesn’t mean a holiday to this amazing destination has to break the bank. Like most places in the world, a trip to Tokyo can be done either in luxury or on a shoestring ... » Continue Reading
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- The Rules of Sushi
- August 28th, 2012Category: Food & Dining
- Like most things in Japanese life there are precise codes and formalities involved with eating the national dish of sushi. Its preparation, presentation and consumption are subject to a surprising number of rules. Here are some of the most important sushi eti ... » Continue Reading
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- Can Embracing Japanese Culture Make You Forget Your Own? (Part 1)
- August 27th, 2012Category: Culture
- Kiyomizudera, Kyoto, Japan Being transplanted into Japanese society, adhering to Japanese customs and being able to hold your own, thousands of miles away from family and hometown friends is sometimes no small feat. My sincerest kudos to all of those teachers, busines ... » Continue Reading
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- Convenience store trivia
- August 24th, 2012Category: Culture
- Imagine Japan without combini (convenience stores). It would hardly be the same country, so ubiquitous are these garishly lit emporia – to the point where seeing two or three convenience stores on a single street corner hardly even seems strange anymore. What ... » Continue Reading
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- The Man in Rainbow
- August 24th, 2012Category: Culture, Travel
- Osaka, the third largest city in Japan with a population of more than 17 million in the greater metropolitan area, has the reputation of being one of the rougher cities in Japan. Compared to Tokyo, where millions of businessmen and woman in ubiquitous black suits and s ... » Continue Reading
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- Shuuten: Part 2 Western Kanto
- August 23rd, 2012Category: Culture, Photography, Travel
- I decided to make a world class collection of photographs that captured the life at Kanto’s final stations, or “Shuuten”. The task was large, difficult and expensive. But the rewards were great Copyright Kyle Remmenga - Escape from your Brain Photography DAY 1: I ... » Continue Reading
