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Even in Rural Japan, You Can’t Escape the Stereotype

I think this building would make a great cafe. Don’t you? That’s one of the things I think whenever I see these buildings. Definitely keeping those mismatching window shades on the second floor (first floor in NZ).

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Tohoku’s 29-Metre Middle Finger to Kyoto

Tohoku’s 29-Metre Middle Finger to Kyoto

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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.


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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.


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The ubiquitous Japanese vending machine. But with a twist.

How about now?

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