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- BANGKOK TRIP
- September 7th, 2013Category: Travel
- How did you spend your summer vacation? Day tripping in faraway places and amazing locations, or sweating it out in the stifling Tokyo summer heat, simply dreaming about those exotic destinations? There was no dreaming for me. As I let the friendly staff at Across N ... » Continue Reading
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- Your New Happy Place: Spa LaQua
- September 6th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- Your first time should be special. I’d never gone to an onsen before—okay that’s a lie. If you count the one in Japantown in San Francisco, then yes, I’d been to one, and it was pretty good. But it was nothing compared to the super deluxe chill-out palace that is Spa La ... » Continue Reading
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- Size Matters: Shopping in Japan
- September 5th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- For a lot of women, finding clothes and shoes outside of the big Western chain shops can be a time consuming process. Last week I posted a few sites that ship to Japan, that also have cute stuff you’ll want to wear. (This quip is prompted by looking in an advice section ... » Continue Reading
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- Hayao Miyazaki: The Making of a Legend
- September 4th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- The Wind Rises will be the last feature length movie directed by the living legend, Hayao Miyazaki, a man who has enjoyed a rich, full and long career, famous for his complex and engaging animated universes, we thought it best to honor the works of this amazing man, ... » Continue Reading
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- 5 Ways to Train in Martial Arts when you DON’T have a regular teacher or training partner.
- September 4th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- While it may seem as though the kind of training we do in martial arts is limited to the immediate proximity of where we live, in actuality, there are a multitude of ways to continue to learn and improve; even when we do not have a regular teacher or training partner to ... » Continue Reading
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- Best Fashion Sites that Ship to Japan
- August 30th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- Shopping for most of us, can be pretty fun, especially in Japan. But for foreign girls who just want to quickly buy what they need and leave, shopping in Tokyo is a living nightmare. The crowds, the nightclub music cranked to 11, the repeated, echoing screams of いらっ ... » Continue Reading
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- Japanese Fireworks: Better in every way but one
- August 30th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- A couple of weekends ago I went to a Japanese fireworks festival and suffice to say that watching fireworks in Japan is just like watching fireworks in the U.S., except better in, uh, every single way. To start out with, you don’t have to drive. You just put on ... » Continue Reading
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- Day Trip to Akita’s Land of the Namahage
- August 28th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- When people talk about visiting Akita, I am often torn about what it is I should be suggesting they do. See some rice fields? Senshu Park? If Akita is not in festival season, my first thoughts are often that there is little to do or see to impress a first-timer, esp ... » Continue Reading
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- Japan on a Budget: Food & Drink
- August 28th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- When it comes to eating and drinking in Japan, it can actually be very cheap to eat outside, depending on where you go. There are several chains and franchises that make decent food for just a few dollars. I can totally recommend Handaya, Yoshinoya, Sukiya and so on ... » Continue Reading
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- Striking The Hammer With Japanese Sound Words
- August 26th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- It sounds exotic but aizuchi is the Japanese name for something very common, namely the polite noises in conversations which demonstrate attention and understanding: the 'yeah's and 'uh huh's we use to show another person that we're on the same wavelength as them. ... » Continue Reading
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- WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CAPES OF HEROPA?
- August 24th, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- Former GaijinPot scribe Andrez Bergen, a resident in Tokyo over the past 12 years, is about to publish his third novel through Perfect Edge Books in the UK. Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? Is, as the title infers, a paired homage to 1940s detective noir ... » Continue Reading
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- Beauty Survival 101: It Gets Hairy at Matsumoto Kiyoshi
- August 23rd, 2013Category: Uncategorized
- Hey Girl, confused about what to buy in the beauty aisle? Yeah I was too. For those of us new to Japan, something as simple as buying hair spray is a confusing experience. Even if you studied Japanese back home, understanding which product does what specifically, an ... » Continue Reading
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