1 month ago
nelson : Wine manga - Interesting comic from Japan, "Drops of the Gods"
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3 month ago
nelson : Onigiri on parade - Guide to basic Japanese comfort food
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6 month ago
jonhicks : Kogoro Kurata: Japanese Ironsmith with a Morbid Twist
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7 month ago
deusx : Japanese Blood Types and Personality - Issendai's Lair - "thanks to a remarkable bit of Science! by a gentleman named Furukawa Takeji, the Japanese believe that a person's blood type affects their personality."
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7 month ago
nelson : Yakuza experience - Fascinating story of a gaijin crime reporter in Tokyo
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Twitter Japan is a go! - Hopefully, with this Japanese language version launch, we'll see even more adoption in Japan. Congratulations to the teams at Twitter and DG who worked on this.
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Search terms replacing URLs in Japanese advertising - I'd love to hear more about Japanese search spam
Richard Rutter : Japan: URL\’s Are Totally Out - Cabel notes that search terms are in, instead.
gleuschk : cabel.name: Japan: URL's Are Totally Out - I noticed the same thing. Also, there are 30-sec English lessons on screens in the subway cars!
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Cherry Blossoms (Sakura) - forecast: end of the month, drat
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gleuschk : the Kohfuku-ji Temple Complex (Nara) - dates to 669AD
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Horyuji and Chuguji in Nara, Japan - Goto says to go to Chugu-ji
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gleuschk : Nara travel guide - Wikitravel - I always forget about wikitravel
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gleuschk : Japan : Suggested Itineraries : In One Week | Frommers.com - pretty much what we're thinking
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gleuschk : Gion Fukuzumi Inn, Kyoto, Japan - modern ryokan in Kyoto
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gleuschk : Japanese Guest Houses - Gion Fukuzumi - modern ryokan in Kyoto
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gleuschk : International Tourism Center of Japan - they'll make hotel/ryokan reservations for you, with minimal fuss or black-box mystery
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gleuschk : JTBUSA -JAPAN RAIL Pass - link at the bottom to order
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gleuschk : Jared Diamond: Japanese Roots - Just who are the Japanese? Where did they come from, and when?
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10 month ago
deusx : *Gashapon* New Super Mario Soundrop -- Full Set ~ Set of 8 - "There are eight sounds in the "New Super Mario" series: 1) START; 2) MEGA; 3) JUMP; 4) COIN; 5) 1UP; 6) CLEAR; 7) MINI; 8) MISS!"
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10 month ago
WillPate : Yuko Shimizu - beautiful japanese illustrations
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11 month ago
deusx : Shamisen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The shamisen or samisen (Japanese: 三味線, literally "three taste strings"), also called sangen (literally "three strings") is a three-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi"
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12 month ago
gleuschk : ever been on a train this nice? « deputydog - trains in japan seem to be a whole different category from trains here
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12 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : May I take your order? - May I take your order?: holy shit! that's the funniest thing I've read all week!
nelson : Carbon burns black bowel - Particularly bad example of nonsensical Japanese to English example. Quite funny.
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