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How A Middle Name Almost Broke the Japanese Banking System

This is partly fiction. Try to guess what is true and what isn’t. I’ll tell you at the end.


Japan’s Final Boss, Bank Edition: Lord of The Passbook

An old man, old enough to be Father Time, wearing a green visor and a beaming smi...

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Why I Hid My Accent for 16 Years, and How Google Outed Me

‘Turn lift.’

‘Continue street.’

Or my personal favourite:

‘Hid est.’

Forget my wedding or the births of my children, Wednesday was the happiest day of my life.

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Fooled by Japan's Weirdest Vending Machine (Twice)

I’m late, I’m sorry, I was on the mountains! Yamabushi gotta Yamabushi and all that.


Here is Japan’s weirdest vending machine, notice anything?

The ubiquitous Japanese vending machine. But with a twist.

How about now?

Look...

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Getting Nihongo Jozued: When Good Japanese Backfires

I had intended on continuing with my series on Maizuru-yama, but this got the better of me! Enjoy!


It looked like this, but with a lot of people just standing around, and a doctor awaiting. Photo by Atikah Akhtar on Unsplash

“Bunti...

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The Man Who Stole a Mountain (And Changed His Identity to Match)

This mountain. Just a random mountain in the middle of Tendo. Or is it?

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