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Better be careful not to get this stuff in your eyes....shake this product up and spray away - I hope that it doesn't smell like beer too! ;) read more »
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Japanese man takes a Mexico city airport as his home- and has no explanation for it? read more »
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A night photo walk of the Lalaport area in Toyosu. read more »
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Nice article from the Financial Times on the token gaijins on the telly. read more »
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Open house for election results, 550 students from Japanese universities attend.
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Jean Snow alerts us to a wonderful public service announcement about the growing food crisis in Japan. If you've ever played Civilization or Sims you may get an itch to boot them up again (can you spot when the entertainers were purchased lol?) read more »
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Three months, 4 locations, 2 monkeys? Update includes keen commentary. read more »
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Former CIR Aaron wrote a very nice post about the problems one faces when translating place names in Japan into English. Even Google is doing it wrong! His suggestions for knocking off the extra "city" or "town" make a lot of sense to me, and so does his reasoning about tautological place names read more »
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I get asked a lot “How long did it take you to learn Japanese?”

I get asked how I learned English so well sometimes, too, but that’s a different story. read more »
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I bet DBR is happy she waited on that netbook purchase, 'cause Dell is selling their basic netbooks for ONE HUNDRED YEN!!!

It's part of a package deal with EMobile, which means that you'll be suckered into buying a data package and getting locked into another monthly bill, but this read more »
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I have noticed that there is a lot of unhappy people living in Tokyo. Why does there seem to be so many unhappy people living in the jewel city of Asia? read more »
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Why would an English teacher need to take a business trip? That's the first question I would ask upon reading the above title. Has my company gotten so powerful that I'm now flying around the country just to teach? read more »
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Did you know there was an Elvis statue in Harajuku? I snapped a photo of it earlier this summer and that turned out to be a good thing as it won't be there in the new year - but it could be yours! read more »
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