Assuming life is required, the following 87 results were found.
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things like pizza toast with the pasta sauce. Two loaves of bread later, I'm not the biggest fan of pizza toast anymore. Life can really suck sometimes, man. Right now you're thinking, "How could anyone NOT like pizza toast?! It's soooo good!" I too was...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: General
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Financehttps://japanatron.com/directory/10412-finance
most convenient, and most cost-effective way I've found to send money home or abroad. It's really come in handy during my life abroad. I blogged about them here: How I Send Money Between my Japan and USA Bank Accounts - Life Abroad
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- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Directory
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it starts getting loads of spam, but being a dedicated IT nerd I didn't want to throw in the towel that easily. I made it my life's mission to stop all spam from getting into my inbox. Well, maybe not my life's mission, but my primary home IT project...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Learning a new language, whether you are looking at adding English or Japanese to your list, is difficult for many individuals. Something that often times makes the process less frustrating and much, much easier is to simply keep an open mind and make...
- Type: Article
- Author: Japanatron
- Category: Studying Japanese
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I will miss while others I won't. This should make for a good summary of the countryside Japan English conversation teacher lifestyle. Things I will miss: * Going to the most popular restaurant in Tottori on a Saturday night without a reservation and...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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After a very hectic week of training at the AEON West headquarters in Okayama, I arrived in Tottori, Japan. Training week was crazy busy, but kinda funny. Our dorm was like Gilligan's Island--no TV, Internet, or any connection to the outside world. We...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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THE TOWN -- TOTTORI I dig this town. Way different from LA. People are really nice, but they still stare at me (I guess I kinda stand out). I stare at other foreigners too thinkin', "What the hell are YOU doing here?! This is MY town!" The bar scene is...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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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...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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My 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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Dance Club I finally went clubbing in Tottori a few times. The club had a small, community-like feeling to it, so I kinda felt like I was at the local hoe-down. I ran into a few of my students, and the other foreigners there randomly talked to me just...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Rollerblading, Tottori-style I've been rollerblading a lot lately at this skateboard ramp park near my house. I've been trying to teach myself rollerblading tricks--something that every 26 year-old needs to know. It was going well; however, one fateful...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Ochidani Park There's a gorgeous park in Tottori called Ochidani Park. For a few weeks during late June, the park is home to thousands of active fireflies at night. It's quite the popular local attraction, so I went to see them twice. I was especially...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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First Time in the Newspaper My student Ayumi works for the Asahi newspaper here in Tottori, and she asked if she could interview me. It was fantastic PR because she focused primarily on Mondaiji (my music/comedy project). The article appeared in the...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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April Fools! My bosses Akiko and Maiko played an April Fools joke on me. They pulled me into the interview room and told me that I had to be let go. I kinda bought into it before they talked to me (they had me wait a bit) because I've heard horror...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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Tottori City Library There's a new city library that's really close to my house, so I've been going there lately to study Japanese. It's nice and well-equipped, but there always seems to be a mother in there with a noisy, bratty kid that won't shut up....
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: Countryside
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How to Look at Internet Pornhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10142-how-to-look-at-internet-porn
take a look and the story is always the same. The guy just doesn't know the right way to look at porn. The parallel to real life is creepy--if you bang hookers without knowing how to use condoms, you're gonna get an STD eventually. Accordingly, if you...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: IT
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Directoryhttps://japanatron.com/directory
Goods, services, apps, websites, etc. that I've found helpful during the course of my expat life in Japan.
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a seafaring vessel, and that was the point. The sounds were terrifying, resembling the final minutes of the Titanic's brief life. But had the building tried to resist the awesome power of mother nature, it would have surely lost. Instead, it swayed like...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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For as long as smokers smoke in my vicinity, I'll continue to fart on them. To Conclude If it's one thing I've learned in life it's that a significant population doesn't give a crap about manners and being nice to others. As sad as it sounds, Jesus'...
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- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General
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foreigners likely have permanent residence (永住権) as this is often cited as the door-opening hurtle to a full, convenient life in Japan free of midnight deportations and dramatic scenes at the embassies. If you have lived in Japan for a while now, plan...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mondaiji
- Category: General