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slam to an awkward halt, I turned to Uchida-san and said, "So...please tell me about your dogs." That's all I needed. The guy went off on some dog-breeding tangent. All I had to do was throw in the occasional "hai" or "I see" to keep it going. Relief...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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with one of my students and her coworkers, and another time alone. One of my student's coworkers was a really interesting guy. He was all decked out in hot pink ski gear, and just kinda broke off from everyone and did his own thing. The time I went...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Mobile Phones in Japanhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/general/10168-mobile-phones-in-japan
I'm "the" IT guy for the Tokyo branch office of a much larger European firm, so I often have to assist visitors from overseas offices with their Japan mobile phone woes. I never understood why sometimes their Blackberries just wouldn't work in Japan....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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given to me by my coworkers since I like to joke around so much. Maiko was the strict one that labeled me as such. You Guys Make Good Dressing I've been eating a lot of salad lately cuz Japanese salad dressing is freakin' good! Food of the gods, man!...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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each class I get to choose which Asian country's table to sit at. Will I go to China, Thailand, or the Philippines today? One guy from Taiwan is so fluent that I never know what the hell he's talking about cuz he talks too fast. At first I thought he...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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I stepped on the stage, everyone was looking at each other with a facial expression that kinda said, "What the hell is this guy gonna do??" Despite the rather broken-ness of my Japanese, people laughed and clapped as I sang, so it was such an uplifting...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Kayo, Joe, and I ignored Mike's report dismissing it as his usual paranoia. Mondaiji on Japanese TV I was on Japanese TV! The guy that runs the record store that sells my CDs introduced me to a TV producer with Nihonkai Television. He wanted to feature...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Why Japanese TV Suckshttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/show-biz/10053-why-japanese-tv-sucks
now I realize how good I really had it. The USA makes the best freakin' TV shows in the world, and to quote the most awesome guy in the universe Joe Donatelli, "right now is the Golden Era of Television." I soon realized shortly after moving to Japan...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Show Biz
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zombies. And the granddaddy of them all is that socialist healthcare debate: Did you say "socialist"!? Oh my God! That Obama guy is a......communist! Burn the witch! He must've conjured the devil's magic to win the election! Even though most first-world...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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Being an IT guy and a student of Japanese, I'm expectedly a fan of using software to study. I've tried just about every type of Japanese learning software there is, so here I've compiled a list of my favorites: The Rosetta Stone (PC / Mac) -...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Studying Japanese
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Think of your friend KO-hei and all the crazy stuff he SAYs. He has quite a personality. I based this one on a Japanese guy I once met. Lucky for me he had quite a colorful personality and his name made it conducive for creating this mnemonic. 延ばす（のばす）-...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Studying Japanese
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Why Linux is Coolhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10147-why-linux-is-cool
previous IT job was essentially limited to the Wintel world, I sat next to and befriended the resident Unix engineer. "This guy REALLY knows what he's doing," I thought as he edited .conf files, adjusted swap partitions, and chmod'ed files all from that...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Why I Hate the Apple Storehttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10149-why-i-hate-the-apple-store
wanna buy something there it's a total pain in the ass. I felt like everyone was looking at me thinking, "What's this guy doin'? He's buying something?" Generally speaking, Apple makes decent stuff, but their minimalist, "you just have to know" approach...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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The Shrine Drummerhttps://japanatron.com/blog/japan/countryside/10015-the-shrine-drummer
it at every subsequent show at Afterhours because the audience requested it calling out “shrine drummer!” between songs. One guy in the audience asked me afterwards where this shrine was. I replied, and he wasn't at all surprised: “I know that shrine!”...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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"Cloudflare," an infamous free CDN service popular among scammers due to the no-questions-asked anonymity provided. The guy on the phone had a British accent, but that doesn't prove anything. Perhaps he's on the moon counting his scammed money, dreaming...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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the email with the emails received directly from Officialiphoneunlock. I think they share the same template author--the same guy that works for Extortion, Inc. * 10 days passed, and surprise, surprise--nothing happened. * I never did receive this notice...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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friend or your nephew's girlfriend's brother. Apologies for the generalization, as not all nerdy friends are IT men/dudes/guys/males: I'm sure there are plenty of female computer geeks out there too. Be prepared to provide something in kind if you seek...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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LINE "scans" contains out-of-date or incorrect information? Suppose you got a new phone number. Perhaps you were dating some guy or girl that went all berserk and stalker on you, so you changed your phone number. Or maybe you didn't bother doing that...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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them in alphabetical order. Biglobe - join.biglobe.ne.jp/mobile/lte Biglobe is owned by NEC, a big Japanese tech company--the guys that made the TurboGrafx-16 game system. Anyone up for a quick game of "Bonk's Revenge?" Amazon Japan - Biglobe Freetel -...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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That is considered a cute and proper woman’s reaction. However, I can’t help but see a Western woman slapping the guy in the face and accusing him of seku hara (sexual harassment). However, as we are aware of the Japanese unspoken rule of social ranking...
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General