Category: Japan Living

  Fucked Gaijin points out: Every national culture has its weird obsessions, and it seems as if Japan’s oddball closet is more crowded than most ? Pokémon, Elvis Presley and Hello Kitty are just a few of the country’s most famous fixations. But perhaps most peculiar of all is the

Some good music to get quietly drunk and morose by-while looking at pictures of the “good old days”: This is a video by Chitose Hajime-and its one of my Japanese favorites. This was the theme song to the NHK Asa Dora ( Morining Drama) “Sakura” in 2003. I used to

You never know how good you have something till its gone. I’ve posted before about the Sunday night TV show in Japan called Uru run. Which is a show where someone who is generally a young actor goes to a homestay abroad and learns all kind of things. The name

A couple of weeks ago, SMAP band member  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi was arrested for being drunk and naked in a Tokyo park. As a result he as dropped as the spokesman for Digital TV in Japan and replaced by a deer: This is Chidejika. Over at Japan Probe they have been

Which was pointed out to me by Japan Probe: The movie is called Hariymaya Bridge-and it appears to capture a lot of the issues involved in Gaijin marriage with Japanese. The story concerns an American man who must travel to rural Japan after his estranged son dies there in a

Which was pointed out to me by Japan Probe: The movie is called Hariymaya Bridge-and it appears to capture a lot of the issues involved in Gaijin marriage with Japanese. The story concerns an American man who must travel to rural Japan after his estranged son dies there in a

They have an Astro-boy ( proper name: Atomu) application for the I-phone: Sh*t-and I was going to save money this month too…………

Wind shear is a powerful thing. On March 23, aircraft started landing at Narita at 6 a.m. Winds up to 72 kph were blowing mainly from the northwest. Before the accident, 12 aircraft had landed safely under these conditions, including a Japan Airlines jumbo jet and a Nippon Cargo Airlines

However,  I can get excited about the World Baseball Classic. For two reasons actually. One, the International Baseball Federation is headed by a Citadel grad: Dr. Harvey Schiller is trying to turn one of the greatest double plays in baseball history.  As president of the International Baseball Federation, the Citadel

However,  I can get excited about the World Baseball Classic. For two reasons actually. One, the International Baseball Federation is headed by a Citadel grad: Dr. Harvey Schiller is trying to turn one of the greatest double plays in baseball history.  As president of the International Baseball Federation, the Citadel