Luminarie is an event that has been held yearly in Kobe since 1995, the year of the big earthquake in Kobe, Japan. In Japanese, that earthquake is called Hanshin Dai Shinsai (阪神大震災) and Luminarie is ...
My friend (hes Indian) owns an Indian restaurant in Japan and showed me his Christmas dinner menu. There were no words.Tandoori Chicken, Japanese style, American X-mas inspired food.What can you say ...
If you like movies and you live in Japan and you havent seen the movie Mystery Train, you should probably remedy that as soon as possible. I saw it years before I moved here and forgot all about it. ...
There are over 40 different prefectures in Japan and every area is famous for different things. This picture was done by someone on 2chan about what the various areas of Japan are nationally famous f...
Himeji is a city in Japan that I actually really like even though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to most people. It’s got a lot going against it right off the bat. Apparently, it used to be a pr...
Japan has a lot of famous car companies (Toyota, Mitsubishi and Nissan, etc) that everyone knows, but it also has a few lesser known companies that arent as popular outside Japan. Mitsuoka, for examp...
This is the best thing ever.
The foreboding house of スミスさんVivian and I went bike riding in Kyoto last month and had a hilarious experience with an old man named SUMISU-SAN. (Mister Smith) We wanted to get some Yatsuhashi samples...
I cant wait for the rainy season to be over and summer to start.Two weekends ago, my friends and I went to Shirahama, in Wakayama prefecture.It was warm enough to swim, so I spent about an hour in th...
Vivian posted the link to these photos, along with these words: "Here is the reality and recovery of Tohoku, three months after. I think the pictures are quite remarkable, despite still being far...
I was in Sweden on a holiday when the earthquakes and Tsunami hit Japan. I decided to come back because Japan is where I live and work right now and because Tohoku is absolutely nowhere near the plac...
In any city, if you know the place well enough, you can think up an archetype of the person who lives in a specific neighborhood. Tokyo has so many neighborhoods and stations that its sort of fun to ...
The picture after this one could probably make a lot of people squeamish, so I apologize in advance. Its a picture of a mouth ulcer. I know that a lot of people call it different things, so you may k...
Im going to Sweden and Denmark for two weeks in March.Thuy, one of my favorite people in the world (we lived together in Tokyo) lives in Aaarhus, Denmark. Im going to Copenhagen and Aarhus as well as...
Have you heard about the new trend among schoolgirls in Japan: LED Smiles? No?When I started seeing it in the international news, I was really surprised because I live here and had never seen or hear...
Ochazuke is one of the simplest Japanese foods to make. Maybe you already know about it, but Ill tell you just in case you dont know. Ochazuke is a hot bowl of nori (seaweed / laver), senbe (J-cracke...
I just saw the trailer for a Japanese movie called Toilet. Have any of you seen it? Its a Japanese movie, but the trailer is all in English and its mostly foreign actors. The main character is Ray, a...
To those of you who live here, this may be slightly old news, but I hope its not boring for you. Hiro Mizushima, the popular Japanese actor, just wrote a book that sold 351,000 copies in the first fi...
It seems like everyone in Japan is sick these days. Everyone has colds and some people even have the flu and the Norovirus. When I first came to Japan, I was shocked about how most public washrooms i...
Happy New Year! 2011 is the year of the rabbit in Japan. You know that.I went to Tokyo for New Years Day. In Japan, New Years Day is kind of like Christmas and Japanese people go back to their hometo...
Sarah posts such great things all the time. I cant figure out how to link her to my blogroll, but I love her site and its here at http://thenomadsland.tumblr.co m/ and I always read it. You should, to...
I saw Norwegian Wood tonight. I liked that book a lot in high school, and still really like Haruki Murakami, so I was looking forward to watching the movie. It wasnt entirely disappointing, but there...
They made Haruki Murakamis novel Norwegian Wood into a movie.Im seeing it next week when it comes out.I really loved that book when I was a teenager.I hope the movie is good, but books are almost alw...
So November 11th is Remembrance Day in Canada, but in Japan it is Pocky Day because 11/11 looks like Pocky sticks. You know what Pocky is already. Its a chocolate covered candy stick from Japan. The ...
Did I tell you guys I passed the JLPT test?I did! Thanks to those of you who wished me luck!
I love the Japan Times. It’s sometimes hard for foreign peoplestudying Japanese in Japan to learn about Japanese local news becausethe local news is usually only widely available in Japanese and tend...
Justin Bieber was in Osaka last week.(Hes from the Motherland)In this video, everyone expresses surprise over Bieber being able to drive a car at age 16, especially such a nice one.The rest is in Eng...
Reading Beths thing about how dingy and depressing Japanese hospitals are made me laugh because its so true. Japanese restaurants and cafes are spotless and immaculate, but the hospitals and clinics ...
Slate.com has a special feature about how toilet posture affects your health. The article praised the Japanese toilet. But not the Toto kind with the bidet and sound muffler that’s always featured in...
Did you know that the grandson of Nobel Prize laureate novelist / philosopher Albert Camus is a TV star (Tarento) in Japan?Its true.His name is Thane Camus and you can google his name in Japanese セイン...
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