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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 294 days ago (http://search.japantimes.co.jp)
Category: Food and Drink | Tags: convenience store japan times food
The Japan Times ran an article on Konbini-Life.com blogger, Brent Warner, this month. The article is very entertaining and available online to read. Brent describes how he got into blogging about Japanese convenience stores and what he finds so attractive about the topic. Best read with a can of co read more »
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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 279 days ago (http://www.transbride.freeola.net)
Category: Culture | Tags: kimono japanese clothes dress
Here's a step by step guide to putting on a kimono properly. This is obviously an important Japanese custom, so we should make an effort to learn how to do it, or at least appreciate it. Accompanied by photos and English instructions. read more »
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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 278 days ago (http://www.alltraveltips.com)
Category: Photography | Tags: seagaia miyazaki beach indoor dome
These photos of the Phoenix Seagaia Resort in Miyazaki are amazing. It has the world's largest indoor water park, and is under a retractable roof. With a permanent air temperature of 30 degrees and water kept at 28 degrees, it's summer year round! There's also a gold course, tennis courts and a read more »
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Avatar Posted by OmoshiroiEigo 278 days ago (http://www.michaelmckinlay.com)
Category: Strange | Tags: freddy got fingered backwards man
Freddy Got Fingered was first released a few years ago and was reviewed poorly. I think it's a great movie and this is in part due to a character in the movie called the "Backwards Man." Well the other night I found a Japanese girl who could definitely be considered the female version of the "B read more »
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Avatar Posted by ShaneS 278 days ago (http://atypicallife.wordpress.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: mochi japan new year tradition hawai
Pounding mochi is a new years tradition in both Hawaii and Japan. But why? The explanation is not easily found but seems to stem from the historical significance of rice in Japanese culture. read more »
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Avatar Posted by littleforeigner 276 days ago (http://neojaponisme.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: youth culture society
Neojaponisme's W. David Marx looks at the latest round of yoof bashing. This time, however, it seems that the current generation are not delinquents, but are rather just not doing much at all. read more »
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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 275 days ago (http://whatjapanthinks.com)
Category: General | Tags: lottery jumbo win money new year
Here are the winning numbers for the "end of year" jumbo lottery. I didn't buy any tickets myself, but my Japanese mother-in-law did and she lost big time! I'm interested to know if anyone here got lucky. Post your winnings! read more »
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Avatar Posted by fz22gq 275 days ago (http://neilduckett.com)
Category: Girls | Tags: miss nippon miss nippon 2008 japanese
It’s almost that time of the year again when the Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo play host to the Miss Nippon Award. I mentioned back in October i was lucky enough to meet the grandson of the guy who founded Miss Nippon back in 1950 and it was then that i made it my mission to attend the crowning of the read more »
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Avatar Posted by OmoshiroiEigo 274 days ago (http://www.japanprobe.com)
Category: Girls | Tags: japan jump rope fast
Check out this girl who can jump rope incredibly fast. It's insane-o in the brain-o!!! read more »
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Avatar Posted by Hawaiibadboy 272 days ago (http://waikiki2yanai.blogspot.com)
Category: Teaching English | Tags: english class lesson elementary kids
The latest step for a young group of girls in their quest to reach EnglishdekiruUtopia read more »
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Avatar Posted by pocky 272 days ago (http://search.japantimes.co.jp)
Category: Technology | Tags: dr. nakamatsu inventions tech
At the cosmic-energy fueled home of Dr. Nakamatsu, winner of a n Ig Nobel Prize and inventor of the floppy disk, bouncing shoes and, now, the Love Jet, a hormone-booster designed to raise Japan's dangerously low birth-rate. read more »
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Avatar Posted by Hawaiibadboy 272 days ago (http://waikiki2yanai.blogspot.com)
Category: Teaching English | Tags: japan kid student dentist scary
Me: Do I have to get a needle?

Cute Assistant: Don't worry honey, I'm sure it will be just one and you probably wont even feel it. read more »
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Avatar Posted by ShaneS 270 days ago (http://atypicallife.wordpress.com)
Category: Work | Tags: japan visas work
A brief rant about some of the bureaucracy that we have dealt with while preparing to come to Japan. read more »
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Avatar Posted by thechemist 268 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: General | Tags: j-web classifieds metropolis gaijinpot
Have you ever read the personals in Metropolis magazine? To university students in Tokyo they are pure entertainment, you never know what people are doing to submit. I recall students submitting a few bogus one's just for laughs. Of course I was much too mature to do anything like that ... :)

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Avatar Posted by fz22gq 268 days ago (http://neilduckett.com)
Category: Photography | Tags: japan temple kyoto temple
The temple was the Tenryu-ji Temple 天竜寺, nestled on a slope of the Arashiyama district of Kyoto, Tenryu-ji (”heavenly dragon temple”) is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage list and is the head temple of the Tenryu-ji branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism. read more »
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