After being in Japan for a while and the novelty of being in the land of Hello Kitty and Pocky has worn off, I find many foreigners enter a “Every little thing about this place irritates the crap outta me” phase (The EL-TAT-PIT-COMP if you will). The nasally “Irashaimase” when entering a store, the constant declaration [...]
Good lord, I’m a procrastinator. I have months of pictures that I want to upload and posts I want to write, but for some reason other things seem to take presidence, like organizing my music, or recently discovering southparkstudios.com and deciding I should watch it from the beginning!
Anyway, here’s a picture from back in May when [...]
File this one under “Only in Japan”: a cute little robot in the style of Lady Murasaki that reads The Tail of Genji to you. She even has a little fan! Maybe I can make a little extra dough by selling some of these on eBay.
Last time, I covered the first unspoken rule of paper in Japan (never throw any piece of paper you get in Japan away). This second rule is also unspoken and is possibly more important that the first
2. If it’s an ALTs word against a piece of paper, paper trumps ALT, always.
It really doesn’t matter [...]
If you know me at all, then you know my favorite TV show is “The Office”, a mockumentary about the struggles of a paper company in Pennsylvania trying to keep afloat in an increasingly paperless world. My solution for Dunder-Mifflin’s woes are simple; move to Japan.
Japan loves paper, be it tiny bags to individually wrap [...]