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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
- Category: General
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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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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
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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
- Category: General
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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
- Category: IT
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It was fake to begin with because it didn't exist. FYI - Here's how to report such abuse of Google's trademarks: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/trademark/ * Their fake "McAfee Security" logo is also gone. If it were indeed genuine, it would have...
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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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channels had no effect. UPDATE Sometimes it's necessary to shutdown other PCs that use CIFS and restart the CIFS (Samba) service on FreeNAS. My theory is that the first device that connects to FreeNAS via CIFS determines the security level.
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- Author: Mondaiji
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There was a recent issue where the Playstation 3 Netflix app stopped working with Getflix--a service I use to watch Netflix here in Japan. Fortunately, Getflix took swift action and resolved the issue. Unfortunately, the issue was resolved for everyone...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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How to Look at Internet Pornhttps://japanatron.com/blog/other/it/10142-how-to-look-at-internet-porn
you could just periodically copy important data to USB memory or use an external storage solution like a NAS or cloud service like iCloud or Dropbox. If you can't afford to lose it, then make sure it's getting backed up. Use Protection It seems so...
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- Author: Mondaiji
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my price / size range. The staffs did not speak English. This may depend on who you get, but don't expect English-speaking service at UR. Nevertheless, they were extremely helpful, and the foreigner-without-a-guarantor thing was a non-issue. Long story...
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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