Posted by Ed | Last updated Jun 24, 2017 | Street Scenes, Tokyo and the Kanto Region | 2 |
I see these fire fighters jogging back and forth in front of their fire station almost every day. They run about 100 meters, up and back on this really narrow sidewalk, and I reckon they go back and forth about 50 times. If...
Read MorePosted by Ed | Last updated Aug 1, 2017 | Japan Blogs and Websites, Translations | 0 |
In Japan, women usually control the purse strings, and men are given a monthly allowance that they use to buy lunches, go drinking, and purchase daily items. My wife’s brother recently had his spending money cut, so...
Read MorePosted by Ed | Last updated Jun 24, 2017 | Kids and Toys | 1 |
I’ve been wanting to attend a school sports day for years, but I was always afraid that a lone foreigner taking photos would be looked on more than a little suspiciously at one of these events. Now that I’ve got a...
Read MorePosted by Kame | Last updated Aug 1, 2017 | Pop Culture, Tokyo and the Kanto Region, Traditional Japan | 11 |
Remember how when you were a kid they told you to never put anything in your ear at all because it’s really, really dangerous and could give you permanent hearing loss? Well, no one has ever said that in the entire...
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