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Avatar Posted by RSON 8 hours ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: drunk manner poster
Tis the season to get drunk as a skunk in Japan. Year end parties, Christmas drunk fests, New Year’s parties, and, gosh, let’s forget about the workday daily drunken ordeal. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 1 day 7 hours ago (http://www.stuff.co.nz)
Category: Sport | Tags: ryo ishikawa
The 17-year-old, already one of Japan's biggest sporting celebrities, finished tied for 13th to pass the "million dollar" barrier and shatter Shigeki Maruyama's record. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 8 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: gas-saving honda insight support
Honda motor company is introducing a drive support system that drivers can activate with a flip of a switch, called the Econ mode, and also confuse all Japanese drivers. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 11 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: Learning Japanese | Tags: japanese learn speak
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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Avatar Posted by RSON 14 days ago (http://www.eastasiafair.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: japan opinion
I wonder out loud here at EAF if anyone at JapanSoc wants to play, would like to share an opinion, help finish the sentence…

You know you qualify to have a valid opinion on Japan when…..

I’ll start it off with a few of my own. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 84 days ago (http://www.eastasiafair.com)
Category: Business and Economy | Tags: minicar tanto i zest palette
The results of a J.D. Power survey in Japan has turned up the top 4 minicars. The study is called the J.D. Power Asia Pacific’s Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study. Try saying that real fast. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 96 days ago (http://www.eastasiafair.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: wife ash
Somebody’s idea of fun is not fun to others. Is that kind of like one man’s junk is another man’s treasure? read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 239 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: Girls | Tags: asuka sawamoto multi sexy
Goes to show you what I don't know about sex, metro sex, or any other kind.

Japan has a new word - multi-sexy. And an idol to go with it - read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 290 days ago (http://www.japan-hopper.com)
Category: Food and Drink | Tags: anko unko
To the untrained gaijin ear - ‘an‘ and ‘un‘ can sound almost the same in Japanese.

Friends, or at least I thought they were friends until they offered to feed me, invited me over for a snack.

Yea! I like snacks. Or, so I thought.

“Bill, would you like some read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 288 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: mobster yakuza
Japan's yakuza is cutting back, hiring freeters, part-timers.

For the second straight year, the number of part-time gangsters in Japan has outnumbered the full-time crooks. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 290 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: Sport | Tags: sumo japan wrestler
A 17-year old sumo wrestler trainee was beaten to death while being hazed by senior wrestlers, 24-year old Masakazu Kimura and 25-year old Yuichiro Izuka. read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 300 days ago (http://www.risingsunofnihon.com)
Category: News | Tags: toyota sales market
Toyota Motor Corp. is selling less cars in the U.S. During the last three months of 2007, sales were in North America were down 1% to 756,000 units despite read more »
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Avatar Posted by RSON 303 days ago (http://www.panasianbiz.com)
Category: Culture | Tags: pets. rental
Leave it to Japan to come up with a rent-a-pet system.

Pets can be rented by the day or hour at pet rental stores in Japan.
The ten most popular rental animals. read more »
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