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inconvenient. In my home country an AIDS/HIV test was usually "thrown in" with a yearly physical. I didn't even have to explicitly request it. STD testing is so commonplace in the USA that any shame associated with it has long since yielded to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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I've always known myself to be a nervous person, but unfortunately as I've gotten older my relationship with anxiety, stress, and insomnia has worsened. What used to be sweaty palms or minor pre-presentation tension is now a borderline panic attack. I...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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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...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Despite its plethora of hills, oceans of smartphone zombie pedestrians, seas of taxis, and rivers of bulky buses, Tokyo is a fairly convenient city to cycle in because it's both compact and brimming with transportation options. Hacking through some...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I Was A Freakhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10066-i-was-a-freak
my first year of college. Maybe it was the unchecked freedom granted after high school graduation, or an overdeveloped need to assert my individuality, or the weed I was smoking--but in short I became a freak. I still am a freak to this day, but...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Babysitting Services in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/directory/10357-babysitting-services-in-japan
Life abroad as a parent can be tough, and there are moments when you just want someone to take the pain away...now. It can be especially difficult when those moments sneak up on you, and you don’t have nearby friends or family who can keep an eye on...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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Yes, I know that Netflix is now available in Japan. However, the services I explain below have proven extremely valuable to me for viewing streaming services from other countries, such as the USA. Since Netflix Japan doesn't have nearly the content...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Japanese language or culture. This country is a wild and curious place bursting with mysterious wonders. It's so very new to foreign you, and a bit confusing. Don't use Google to quench your curiosity! The only conceivable resource available that could...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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I checked out this club in Tottori that bands play at (called After Hours). It was really interesting because almost every band sang in English, but they couldn't actually speak English. This one cover band had like 10 musicians. The singer tried to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Typhooooon! There have been some crazy typhoons this season. I'm sure Japanese people are used to them; but being a novel experience for me, I'm certainly not accustomed to them yet. My boss called me one morning and said, "You're fired! Don't come to...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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questions regarding my experiences in the Japanese entertainment industry. Below is my reply. How hard has it been for you to break in? The biggest advantage with my comedy has been simply being a foreigner. This obviously really helps in getting me...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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The open source stuff that JomSocial uses to convert and render video uploads (ffmpeg) also supports audio files. I thought it would be cool to modify JomSocial to allow audio files to be used in its videos section. It actually wasn't as hard to figure...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Most often referred to in Japan as an MVNO, which stands for "mobile virtual network operator," the following is a potentially-growing list of SIM-only mobile providers that resell services on one of the major Japanese mobile networks: NTT Docomo, Au...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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brother who had returned for summer break with more Nintendo games than the "Angry Video Game Nerd." His initial story was that the games were the natural result of winning the grand prize in a video game contest in the Bay Area. The story made perfect...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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After conquering the challenge of watching USA Netflix in Japan (explained here: How to Watch Netflix in Japan), there unfortunately still remained a minor dent in my USA TV streaming desires--watching things like NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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visas in Japan require some kind of sponsor, usually a company or a spouse. The problem here is that if something happens to your sponsor--e.g. your company suffers a financial crisis, or sweet love turns sour--then your visa could go bye-bye. PR does...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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First Movie Rental I finally started renting movies here. I rented "Amelie" because I'd always wanted to see it. I took it home and realized that the only languages available on the DVD were French and Japanese. So I watched a French movie dubbed in...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Laid Offhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10063-laid-off
Summer 2009--I was laid off. We were told as a group on a Tuesday that management had decided to outsource IT services and that our last working day would be Friday. 3 of the SA team would go, and only 1 would stay. I had seen this coming, so I wasn't...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Stupid But Fun Purchaseshttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/general/10082-stupid-but-fun-purchases
far from being a shopaholic, but I definitely have a weak spot for electronic toys. I've made quite a number of dumb purchases in my life (most often electronics), but these particular ones reverberate in my wistful memories. Thank God for Ebay! The...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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It's tough to beat a credit card's convenience, so I felt naked and demoted after moving to Japan and encountering a sea of rejection when trying to apply for a local credit card. True...I could use my US credit card, but that weak dollar / strong yen...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General