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Shinjuku is so mind-blowingly complicated that I get lost each and every time I go there. Despite extensive navigational preparation, GPS, Google Maps, etc., Shinjuku beats me every time. You have my heartfelt respect if you can successfully navigate...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Videos
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Religious Freakhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/1004-religious-freak
a professional blogger. He runs a rather popular self-improvement website. Since our family name is quite unique, I sometimes get traffic via his site; or people looking for his site simply stumble upon mine. In rare cases, I'll even get email from his...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Rude Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10010-rude-japan
be holding doors open for people in a city like that. You'll be the door man for the entire day. You'll also most likely get trampled and urinated on. Albeit polite, it's not practical. You gotta bag your own groceries. Many grocery stores in Japan...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I wouldn't have qualified for my English teaching gig in Japan had I been without my 4-year degree. My mom always said, "Get it now while you're young and motivated. It will be much harder to go back and get it later in life." Apparently, many of her...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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a private Japanese lesson with a volunteer at the Tottori International Center each week, and I try to practice whenever I get a chance. Right now I'm looking for a new electronic dictionary cuz the one I have has like 5 words in it. The ones here are...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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November 2003 - My Name is Debuhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/countryside/10020-my-name-is-debu
out that "debu" is a Japanese slang word meaning "fat / chubby." I enjoy that a lot. I keep introducing myself as Debu now. I get lots of good reactions. I love this stuff as it motivates me to keep studying this language. * I went to Tokyo a few weeks...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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ya screwed up, so next time do it right, jackass!" I swear to God I'm gonna buy one these freakin' things myself just to get them off my back. I know the AEON trainer is gonna talk to me about it when he comes. That's gonna be fun cuz I'll hear more...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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action, but my muscles disobeyed me. I was frozen. He finally left. He came back again. Same guy. No English. I said I don't get NHK on my TV. I don't think he bought it, but he left. I also said I didn't have any money (which was true cuz I had yet to...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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cool I even filmed some of it from my balcony. There is supposed to be another one on the way. Fortunately, Tottori doesn't get hit too severely by typhoons. Further south is a different story. Earthquake! There were some earthquakes here recently too....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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was very positive, and this time I sold more CDs. The staff at the club really seem to like me, so it hasn't been a problem getting shows at that place. The mixing guy even bought my CD. I Love Japanese Web Shopping I recently ordered some music...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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time to the USA. It was awesome, but busy cuz I was visiting LA as a tourist this time. Kayo and I went to Santa Monica, The Getty Center, Hollywood, a Dodger game, and Disneyland. We even had time to take an overnight trip up to San Luis Obispo for...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Facebook Reject Buttonhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10059-facebook-reject-button
doesn't have a satisfying reject button to deny friend requests. They only have an "ignore" button. The closest I can get is to block the person and report them as a spammer. That sounds a tad excessive, though. I guess the only satisfaction I can get...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Laid Offhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10063-laid-off
apparent I was laid off as I clean up my desk and take my belongings home during my final week. Pitied looks abound as it gets harder and harder to go to work. Lunch became a venting frenzy as those getting laid off wallowed in antsy frustration. A...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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We're The Red Coatshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10086-were-the-red-coats
Red Coats”), making it blatantly obvious that they were the bad guys. They might as well have been wearing red and white target circles on their chests with sandwich-board signs proudly declaring, “We're the bad guys! Shoot at us!” My country hasn't...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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fast food. That is, my daily footlong veggie sub minus oil, salt, and mayo was and is damn good for me. Well, I can still get that in Japan even though it will have half the food volume and double the price. But what pisses me off is all the smokers...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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said 「お疲れ様です」 to a friend from your native country. You take your shoes off when visiting your native country. You get upset when having to use a toilet without a heated seat and butt spray. You forget to tip when visiting your native country. You've...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Home Remedieshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10190-home-remedies
kills the bacteria, keeps the skin sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight. Listerine therapy for toenail fungus... Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine mouthwash. The powerful antiseptic leaves your toenails...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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of. Only non-trading websites may opt out, so I complained to Nominet (the organization that oversees .co.uk domain names) to get their contact info listed again. Go here to run a current whois lookup: http://www.nominet.uk/whois/ Initially this was the...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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Williams. No one keeps me in touch with my home country's news dramas like good ol' Brian Williams, so my mission was to get him streaming to my Tokyo living room. While it is relatively easy to watch USA news and TV shows on a computer connected to the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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version? Open nginx.conf and uncomment or add this line: server_tokens off; Limit Allowed Methods Block anything other than GET and POST by putting this in the virtual host's location block: # Limit request methods limit_except GET POST { deny all; }...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT