Category: Japan Blogs and Websites
How to Win at Pachinko (Japanese Pinball)
Are you fascinated by bright, shiny, objects? Do you feel that you have been using your brain too...
Read MoreWhat’s Normal in Japan?
Nihon no Hyoujun (What’s Normal in Japan) is a fascinating homepage that asks people to write in and vote on questions like: “Do you use wash you hands in the stream of water that comes out of the toilet...
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Antique Your Photos
Bakumatsu Kodai Shashin Jenere-ta- (Late Edo-period Old Photograph Generator) is an amazing...
Read MoreFrangipani
I got addicted to Frangipani through the photos, but there’s much more to it than that. The blogger, Martine, puts up a lot of really thought-provoking videos and links that she finds on her travels around the internet (be...
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Kawaii Nostalgica
Kawaii Nostalgika is the photoblog of a Swiss guy named Aldo who takes wonderful (and sometimes a...
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How Safe is Your City from Earthquakes?
Most people don’t think of Shizuoka as a dangerous place, but according to the Headquarters...
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Average Rents in Tokyo by Area
Tokyo is one of the world’s most expensive cities, and rents can be astronomical, but if...
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Reading Kanji in Microsoft Word
I guess pretty much everyone who computes in Japanese knows about Rikai.com and Rikaichan, the...
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Edo-Period Recycling
I stumbled across this interesting article a while ago about how there was pretty much no garbage...
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UR Chintai – No key money, no agent’s fees, no guarantor
Whenever I go apartment hunting, somehow Lou Reed’s lyric “somewhere a...
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Diary of an Ex-yakuza Moll
Yakuza lady with Japanese Cherry Blossom Tattoo Back in May, my wife and I went to the Sanja...
Read MoreSalariman Spending Money
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...
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