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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 enjoy more options and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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If you're reading this, you too probably want to get your impossible-to-unlock iPhone carrier-unlocked. You did some googling and found officialiphoneunlock.co.uk (also doing business as iphoneimei.net). You read a lot of positive reviews. You saw...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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of my other blog articles, you realize that I'm often obsessed with finding the ultimate of something. Well, this time my target is loopers--lovely musical devices / software that allow you to create stimulating sound-on-sound performances. Ever since...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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That subway ticket costs 160 yen, but you don't have exact change. For God's sake, don't put 200 yen in the machine! You'll get four 10-yen coins back, thus exchanging 2 coins for 4. Instead, pay 210 yen. Your change will be a single 50-yen coin,...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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easily go on a crazy "Brewster's Millions" shopping spree and skip town. While jobless irresponsible American me managed to get a decent credit card as a college student, responsibly-employed living-in-Japan me failed time and time again. Don't bother...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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dictatorial rule for good. Step 1: Buy an Unlocked Phone At the time of writing this, I had learned the hard way that getting a Softbank iPhone factory unlocked is impossible. Softbank refused to do it (even after completing contractual obligations),...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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offering free advice and assistance abound, and are a simple Internet search query away. However, like most things, you get what you pay for in this world, and there's often a good reason it's free. Anyone who has used forums before can tell you...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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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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moving to Japan from the US, I had been a vegetarian for 8 years (age 18-26). I originally became one because I thought it healthier to cut meat out altogether as a source of calories. Hopefully, not eating meat would reduce my caloric intake and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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months. Despite my fine-meshed screens and personal policy of only opening the windows when absolutely necessary, they still get in. Dammit. Given how aggressively I'm targeted, my American blood must be the finest, first-class epicurean indulgence for...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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plans easier, are seeking an enchantingly attractive foreigner mate, or simply want the ability to speak another language, get ready to learn with these important yet fairly simple tips: Think on your feet and learn to go with the flow. You might not be...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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my retired father by ordering it, shipping it to him, and asking him nicely to ship it to me. However, as time goes on I get the distinct feeling my father does not particularly enjoy running a package forwarding service. I think he prefers to spend his...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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Tokyo Makes Me Hate Peoplehttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10081-tokyo-makes-me-hate-people
delivery guy know of the excess to which I utilize Internet shopping. The Kuroneko guy and I are on a first-name basis. I get that small-town feeling without all the small-town bullshit. Kuroneko Takashi fills me in on the local gossip (Yuko's pregnant...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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is all behind me now. After mailing the letter (190 yen!), I basked in my true reason for moving to Japan in the first place—getting out of jury duty. Dear California Superior Court Jury Duty People, Maybe you too should move to Japan because it appears...
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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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American dream when you can be an American living in Japan? All the freedom and no Donald Trump! Well, kind of. Assuming you get the right visa. (That’s a separate article to write.) So, you got here and the magic is still new. You climbed Mt. Fuji, you...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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drive. That is the question on the minds of many gaijin (foreigners) in Japan, particularly those who are required by law to get a driver’s license in the country. If you live in urban centers such as Tokyo, Nagoya, or Osaka, you may not bother learning...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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my shoulder and after. It averages about 10.3 lbs with my belongings in it, not including the protective Michael Kors bag you get to put your actual bag in, which I use to carry other small items in and add the actual bag to it when I sit down. At...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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community projects ("free as in speech" or free software / paid support biz models). I tried just about every ISO I could get my hands on. I thought I had my work cut out for me since I found far more of them than I had expected. But I did notice some...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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than Cookie Monster eats (you guessed it) cookies. Well, there's not much I can say about this one besides the obvious--get spare batteries and the wall charger. * Buy spare batteries and the plug-in charger. Duh. * Use the AC adapter. This isn't really...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General