Category: Japan Living

This is a poster telling people not to hoard things. Here is one too: Evidently, according to Watashi to Tokyo, the Twitter #tag “edano_nero” is hot in Japan now. Edano is Cabinet Secretary, Since the earthquake, he appeared on TV everyday and told us what is going on in the calm

I can tell its driving the S.O. nuts not to be in Japan right now. (Its driving me nuts-I want to be there and help).  Some selected quotes from the S.O: On CNN live report from Japan, most reporters’re telling that they’re amazed how calm and patient victims are, no

Is the Japanese word for earthquake. As bad as it is, it could have been much worse. This is why you invest in infrastructure: The main damages is centered on Miyagi and Iwate prefectures:

Seems the term “Not for attribution” has no meaning anymore: According to students who attended the speech on “Military Bases and Their Impacts in Okinawa” at the State Department on Dec. 3, Maher started off by explaining the general situation surrounding U.S. forces in Japan. In the process of the

For learning Hiragana. Now after 10+ years of struggling with the Japanese language-I remain convinced that starting with Romanji ( anglicized Japanese) is a bad way to go. A beginner in Nihongo should start by memorizing the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets first and then bit by bit learn Kanji with

In Japan lately there have been a lot of commercials for this movie: The movie’s title is : Taiheiyo no kiseki –fokksu to yobareta otoko ( or, Miracle of the Pacific: The Man Called Fox). Story highlight here: On 7 July, Captain Oba and his men participated in the largest

See how many neighborhoods you can recognize in this-interesting time lapse video by photographer Samuel Cockedey:

It is not easy to combine a commentary on the New York Mosque with an additional comment on “Genbaku no hi” , but I am going to try anyway. Just because you understand why the Japanese are the way they are-does not mean you are endorsing what they did. However,