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Ten Quirky Objects 20 May 2012 | 12:12 am
Here are 10 objects that pretty much any Japanese person would recognize, but which may not be so familiar to foreigners. How many do you know? (Bonus points for knowing the Japanese name as well.) T...
Industrial Wasteland 3 2 Feb 2012 | 02:56 am
Kawasaki’s industrial zone has a strange, dystopian beauty. The air stinks, it’s noisy, and the area’s not very pedestrian friendly, but it’s quite an interesting place to take photos in. These phot...
How Japan Selects Astronauts 25 Jan 2012 | 03:36 am
I’ve been reading an interesting book called Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. It’s about the quirky side of space exploration–things like what’s involved in getting an Americ...
Groin Groin 5 Oct 2011 | 12:50 am
Japanese pigs say “buu buu.” I guess someone thinks that English ones say, “Groin, groin.”
The Surprising History of the Japanese Cold Mask 17 Sep 2011 | 05:00 pm
I was watching a documentary called World War II in Color and HD when I noticed that some pre-WWII footage of Japanese people getting off a train showed a man and woman wearing face masks. I thought m...
The Joys of Condo-hunting in Japan 1 Sep 2011 | 12:55 am
My wife and I are looking to buy a condo, and we found a couple of really nice-looking ones in Yashio, a station about 20 minutes from Akihabara on the Tsukuba Express train line. One of the ones we f...
Kasai Rinkai Park 13 Aug 2011 | 11:57 am
There’s a lot more to Tokyo parks than just Yoyogi and Shinjuku-gyoen. Kasai Rinkai Koen is a seaside park on the edge of Tokyo Bay between Odaiba and Tokyo Disneyland. It’s the largest park in centra...
The Minami-senju Fashion Plate 4 Aug 2011 | 01:49 am
Here’s an unusual-looking character that I often see around the Minami-senju area.
Uniquely Japanese Job Interview Questions 19 Jun 2011 | 07:10 pm
On the surface, Japanese job interviews are a lot like Western ones, and the interviewers ask you the regular questions about where you worked before, your strengths and weaknesses, and the reason you...
Jomyo-in, the Jizo Temple 30 May 2011 | 02:04 am
I rode my bicycle past Jomyo-in Temple hundreds of times on my way to work, never suspecting that it might be worth visiting until last year they started doing construction on it, and I got a look ins...
