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This is a short comedic story entitled "I Told the Guy It Was Time to Go." I mostly made it because I'd like to try doing standup comedy someday. I also wanted to try out some new AV equipment I got recently. I know it has nothing to do with Japan, but...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Videos
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Tottori called Ochidani Park. For a few weeks during late June, the park is home to thousands of active fireflies at night. It's quite the popular local attraction, so I went to see them twice. I was especially excited because I had never before seen...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Anyone living in or visiting Japan is no stranger to walking around with a bucketful of coins in their pants/purse. The excitement before your first Tokyo subway ride soon quells as you're greeted by a flurry of coins spraying from the ticket machine...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Why I Hate the Apple Storehttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10149-why-i-hate-the-apple-store
I ask them where the Snow Leopard upgrades are, and they say 2nd floor. I get the elevator, but there aren't any buttons in it. Other people get in, and we all look at each other confusedly. At least I wasn't the only one. The retarded elevator goes to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Japan's culture is one forged in various degrees of shame. And that's a damn shame sometimes because it makes getting a quick STD test at your local clinic all the more socially cumbersome and logistically inconvenient. In my home country an AIDS/HIV...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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admit that I'm an anal person. I'm never late, obsessively tidy, impeccably organized, and borderline OCD. I'm not without vices, however. I drink rum like a pirate and am sadly addicted to nori potato chips. Getting back to the point--maybe the reason...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Kettle of Legendshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/1006-kettle-of-legends
I said a fond farewell to my old kettle today. In other words, I threw it in the trash. It was purchased 2.5 years ago at Donki Houte (ドンキホーテ) in Nakano-ku. I used it solely to make tea, so the inside was horrendously caked with 2.5 years of tea. In...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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bugs are weird! I can't tell you how many times I go to my bike in the morning, and there is some green and purple thing with florescent wings and 15 legs crawling on it. Weird! Yumura Onsen Kayo and I spent a weekend at a hot spring in Yumura recently....
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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things and how they compare to the USA equivalent. My first chosen topic is a brief and easy one--Subway Sandwich. Although it doesn't have the mammoth presence that McDonald's has, Subway Sandwich is indeed here in Japan. Unlike McDonald's, however,...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Club I finally went clubbing in Tottori a few times. The club had a small, community-like feeling to it, so I kinda felt like I was at the local hoe-down. I ran into a few of my students, and the other foreigners there randomly talked to me just cuz I'm...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Living abroad I often find myself comparing the best and worst of my home country with that in Japan. How cool it would be to mix-and-match to create the perfect country precisely customized to my desires. Just as I may visit a friend's house and stare...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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new product. Shortly after my new IO Dock & iPad arrived, iOS5 was released, so I updated--a decision I regret ever since. Little did I know that the IO Dock is not at all compatible with iOS5 on the iPad2, a fact that likely surprised even Alesis. The...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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efficient public transport system to bring you anywhere you want. In fact, even many Japanese locals who live in the big cities do not bother owning cars because not only is it expensive, but it can also be very challenging to get a license. Moreover,...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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As an American guy living abroad in Japan, sending money between the USA and Japan is something I'm used to dealing with. In fact I documented the various international money transfer methods I've used over the years here: How I Send Money Between my...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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of indirect communication via subtle queues that you just have to discern and somehow figure out. Japanese culture values politeness in speech, so indirect is always considered far more polite than direct, especially when it comes to something like...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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I learned in my psychology classes that memory is most deeply encoded when associated with concrete imagery. That is, memories are strongest when they appeal to all the senses and can readily recreate an imaginable scene or context. Rote memorization...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Studying Japanese
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Reasons Why Water Suckshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10156-reasons-why-water-sucks
It can drown you. 2. It's wet. 3. You have to drink it. 4. You have to bathe in it. 5. It always makes you have to pee. 6. It always makes you have to pee when you can't get to a bathroom. 7. It flows through you so fast that you're pertetually in the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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sour--then your visa could go bye-bye. PR does not have this problem. You're your own sponsor. * You don't have to renew it every 1~3 years. * You can get stuff like credit cards and home loans. While it's not impossible to get these without PR, you can...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I noticed a pattern on B-Mobile's website--a pattern that seemed to show that all Docomo Xi phones can get LTE. Since Docomo just started selling the iPhone 5s and 5c, my theory was that Docomo iPhones would get LTE on B-Mobile. I couldn't get LTE on...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Google Assistant speaker to the latest Google Nest Audio. Nice. Sounds good. Upgrade complete. Wrong. I'm forever plagued with IT problems. I must've been cursed by some IT witch or something. Every once in a while the Google Nest speaker would make a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT