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- Enter the Ninja: Please Exit Stage Left
- November 10th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- As Enter the Ninja (1981) opens and you peer into Franco Nero’s tired, Caucasian eyes peaking through a white ninja suit, you’re convinced it’s a comedy. The only funny thing is that Enter the Ninja is not a comedy. Nero, whose character’s name is Cole, darts through ... » Continue Reading
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- 1 in 10 Japanese firms headed by woman
- November 10th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- It is not just maid trains that employ Japan's female population as a recent survey by a credit ratings agency found that one in every 10 companies in Japan has a lady president. Tokyo Shoko Research said it conducted a survey on 2.09 million companies of all scales ... » Continue Reading
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- Foreign Businesses in Japan: Soup of the day
- November 10th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- As soon as you walk into the offices of Campbell Japan Inc, you face an array of colorful soup cans, packets of Pepperidge Farm cookies, Tim Tams and V8 vegetable juice. But soup is what the company is famous for worldwide. Excluding miso soup, Japan’s soup market is ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan Inc. investing big in electric cars
- November 9th, 2010Category: Work Tips
- Tesla Motors is a hot start-up company based in Silicon Valley that is fast catching the eye of those tracking the future of the automobile industry. The company designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and is most famous for its Roadster. Tesla has caught the ... » Continue Reading
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- Seibu Railways to start ‘maid trains’
- November 8th, 2010Category: Culture
- The Seibu Railway Group has announced plans to introduce a new maid cafe-style train service between Ikebukuro and Chichibu stations. Akihabara’s maid cafe culture is closely aligned with Japan’s “otaku” subculture that is continuing to go mainstream. As several anim ... » Continue Reading
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- ETJ Expos for English teachers in Japan (Updated)
- November 5th, 2010Category: Teaching in Japan
- From October to early December, English teachers from all kinds of teaching environments will gather at the ETJ (English Teachers in Japan) Expos. This is the ninth year the Expos have been held, and they have become an essential event to attend for English teachers f ... » Continue Reading
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- The Freefall of Japan’s Anime Industry
- November 4th, 2010Category: Culture
- Since its introduction more than half a century ago, anime has risen to become one of Japan’s most recognizable cultural icons. It has served as the initial contact between individuals and Japanese society, and has brought us the likes of Gundam, Pokemon, Astro Boy an ... » Continue Reading
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- Face to Face – The Facebook Movie comes to Japan
- November 4th, 2010Category: Arts & Entertainment
- How do you make a movie about the life of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and make it interesting? That’s the task which screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, director David Fincher and star Jesse Eisenberg faced and successfully handled in their acclaimed film, “The Social Net ... » Continue Reading
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- NO Experience Necessary – A guide for new English teachers
- November 2nd, 2010Category: Teaching in Japan
- NO Experience Necessary is a timely ebook guide for the new teacher heading overseas for the first time, providing useful guidance and advice on how to teach and facilitate an EFL class, and helps individuals to avoid making the mistakes that new teachers commonly do ... » Continue Reading
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- Meet the Tokyo Sky Tree mascot Sorakara-chan
- October 29th, 2010Category: Culture
- Never underestimate Japan's ability to cutify everything. The mascot character associated with the Tokyo Sky Tree, currently under construction in Sumida ward, was officially introduced Thursday. The character’s name is Sorakara-chan, which, literally translated, mea ... » Continue Reading
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- 10 ways to stop being an annoying airline passenger
- October 27th, 2010Category: Travel
- With summer in the rear-view, it’s time once again to think about holiday travel arrangements. It’s stressful schlepping back to your home country to eat your body weight in gelatin desserts, candied yams, and smoked birds, isn’t it? The airport is terrible. And the p ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan’s Police Mascots
- October 26th, 2010Category: Culture
- Pipo-kun; the mascot for the Tokyo police force has been hogging the lime light for too long. Most people don't even know that there's not one but more than forty police characters, one for each prefecture. Created in 1987 Pipo-kun was the first but year after year he ... » Continue Reading