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On Using a Japanese Toilet
I still don’t know what “standby mode” means for a toilet. The Squat Toilet I’ve used a squat toilet once. It was out of necessity. For two days I’d devoured a steady diet of chicken nanban, the...
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J-Cin Sundays: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Biker Gangs and How to Get Angry...
Title: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi Year: 1976 Notes: This documentary was the inspiration for the name of post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which honestly is the...
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15 English Words You Will Only Hear in Japan
English is something of an international language, and so it tends to make out with a lot of native tongues. In Japan, I hear a lot of English phrases scattered into otherwise Japanese conversations....
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On Getting Rid of Japanese in Japan
Kanji is hard. The hieroglyphic written script (just one of three) used in Japanese has a weird history, borrowed and bastardized from the Chinese. And it takes years, even for the Japanese, to learn....
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