The Carpenters sang “rainy days and mondays always get me down”. There wasn’t really much expansion into how one might feel if it was a rainy Monday, which it was this week in Tokyo. Rather than feeling “down” about it, however, I thought it would be a great opportunity to take a few pictures. It [...]
After a flurry of posts two weeks ago, I was sadly unable to post anything last week. I was off and away, at the massive, terribly exciting, thrill-mobile that is FoodEX. Myself and several of my coworkers were stationed out in Chiba from Tuesday until Friday, where we were representing our company at the exhibition hall. [...]
Behold: Here we see a friendly picture of President Barack Obama gracing the cover of a Japanese beer bar’s address book. He greets the onlooker with a simple “Hi”. “Cultural Collisions” like this stand out to me, and I usually find them hilarious. Part of me wants to ask “why?” when I encounter this kind [...]
I do a couple of “odd jobs” to help make ends meet here. One of those jobs involves working with a company that produces language learning materials for people all over the world. They don’t just produce Japanese language materials, but dozens of other languages as well. Some readers of this blog might be familiar [...]
Japanese work culture is a subject that can raise a lot of questions and concerns for foreign people. “I heard people work till they drop!” “Do you have to work 70 hours every week?” “Is it true that there are no days off?” “Are there really mandatory drinking parties?” These questions are, to an extent, [...]
(Remember how I said I was going to just write about stuff without so much unnecessary nitpicking? Yeah, my computer crashed and burned a little while after that and I still haven’t got it fixed. I have bad luck with them.) What if your whole life depended on a test? I’m not talking about a [...]
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