Assuming service is required, the following 57 results were found.
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Mobile Phones in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10168-mobile-phones-in-japan
are taking notice of our market. A Few Money-Saving Tips The provider may sign you up for trials of a bunch of useless services when you first contract with them. Refuse all but the base required stuff if you can (unless you use all that stuff). You...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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not. What's even worse was that the booth for airline crew would sit idle for tens of minutes at a time. Could they not service waiting customers in their downtime? Of course not. At least my bag was already waiting for me by the time I got through....
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- Author: Mondaiji
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This is a public service announcement of sorts. I want to warn the world that Japanese salesclerks totally suck at handing you your change. Beware!
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Videos
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My ultimate goal was to setup multi-factor authentication wherever possible--a feature supported by most major online services, especially the money-related ones. Some sites use handy token apps like "Google Authenticator" to provide the second...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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was the case for me when I lived in Tottori). If you moved to rural Japan, then you probably weren't expecting much English service anyways. I certainly wasn't, and it was fun! In fact, even if there isn't a Shinsei branch anywhere nearby, you could...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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phone carrier is the only one that can officially unlock your iPhone. Therefore, sites offering third-party iphone unlock services are fraudulent "businesses" by definition. Like any black market, the risk of getting scammed is beyond sky high--it's...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: IT
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free public DNS (8.8.8.8) hard-coded into it. This is great for DNS redundancy, but totally sucks if you use an unblock service to watch Netflix abroad (see this: How to Watch Netflix in Japan). From time to time my Roku would insist on using Google's...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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close eye on your USA credit situation. NOTE: Many of these sites are only accessible from within the US, so I recommend a service called Getflix that offers VPN connections. This very affordable service allows you to access these sites while abroad....
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- Author: Japanatron
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Financehttps://japanatron.com/directory/10412-finance
Financial services that have come in handy as an expat abroad in Japan. Kanda Accounting This is the Japanese accountant I used to setup my business. Please let him know that David Pavlina referred you since he may give you a discount! More info here:...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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management agent and its ability to deploy software. If you check properties of "WMI Control" in Computer Management (under Services & Applications), and it shows problems, then the PC likely has a WMI issue. Here's how to repair it. I use powershell...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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and they're a prime information resource for starting your own business in Japan. Although their free consulting services only apply to foreign companies seeking to start operations in Japan, their free library contains a surprisingly comprehensive...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Rude Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10010-rude-japan
groceries. Many grocery stores in Japan simply don't have a person there to bag your groceries. The mysterious lack of this service in such a service-oriented country confused me. However, many people here do not have cars (myself included). As such, we...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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If IT geek-dom were a crime, I'd be on death row by now. Fortunately, it is not; so I continue my dorky IT pursuits--the latest of which is finding a VPS cloud server provider that offers a Japan datacenter location. Let's see what we come up with......
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- Author: Japanatron
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(whoops!) Oh yeah! Of course! Today is my day off, so it's okay. Then she led me to a seat and handed me a magazine. The service was incredible: shampoo, cut (the hairstylist was really nice and talkative [good practice for me]), another shampoo, a...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Privacy Policyhttps://japanatron.com/privacy-policy
Com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Japanatron Dot Com reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor that acquires rights to that...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Legal
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My bathroom door says "jimusho" (office) in kanji, and I put a sign next to the toilet paper that says, "Push button for service" (in both Japanese and English). I laugh every time I take a poop.
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- Author: Mondaiji
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wings and 15 legs crawling on it. Weird! Yumura Onsen Kayo and I spent a weekend at a hot spring in Yumura recently. The service at the Japanese inn (ryokan) was awesome. The decor was so Japanese that I was prepared for a decadent ninja battle at all...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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called "Leo Palace." It's a cool system because their apartments are fully furnished and include utilities and Internet service. I just pre-paid the rent for 3 months--no deposits or stuff like that. The woman at the rental place found the most perfect...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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and in dire need of a lawyer. His situation like mine came with a dichotomy of good and bad news. He got off with community service, but his academic career at that university was over. His moving not only back into the same house as I, but also the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Google is Skynethttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10064-google-is-skynet
as well--demolishing Microsoft's antiquated client PC model. Google is an information vampire, implementing info-harvesting services wherever the opportunity exists. Here is a breakdown of a very realistic future scenario: June, 2012: Google controls...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT