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• Japanese Customs
  on Jan 25, 2017 in Living In Japan bowing Japanese Culture Japanese politeness Learning Japanese
  “Stop that,” she said. “Sit still. You want people to think you’re a better person, don’t you?” This is me, learning not to do sewing machine leg from Yasuko, my girlfriend. “Better than whom?” I asked. Well, Yasuko was crazy, so what...
• The Most Dangerous Animal in Japan
  on Dec 27, 2016 in Living In Japan Hostess Club Japanese girls Japanese women
  “Ah man, I’d love to have a few beers, but I promised Eriko I’d watch the kids.” This is my buddy, let’s just call him Joe, since that’s his name. He’s got two kids. So then I Line’d Dave. His wife speaks English, so to protect his id...
• How Japan Killed my Vegetarianism
  on Dec 10, 2016 in Living In Japan gaijin Japanese food Japanese politeness
• Strange English I can’t Understand
  on Nov 28, 2016 in Living In Japan American culture Japanese Culture Japanese Life Learning English
  Living in Japan, you’re basically trapped in a tiny spaceship, peering down through clouds and picking up intermittent snippets of news floating skyward from earth. I first heard “Poker Face” in a smoky Shinjuku karaoke bar, when so...
• Japanese Racism
  on Oct 31, 2016 in Living In Japan gaijin Racism in Japan
  The first time I had a white kid in my English class, I couldn’t stop staring at him. He was floating among a sea of Asian faces in our sweaty, countryside classroom. I rattled my head and gazed briefly out the window. Steam was rising from the mou...
• How Americans get Shot by the Police
  on Oct 1, 2016 in Living In Japan Crime in Japan Japanese rules of the road
  It’s a funny feeling, being surrounded by a gang of cops, what with the yelling and pointing of guns and all. My first thought was, being shot to death on vacation’s gonna suck. It’d started off well enough. Hidemi and I had breezed in from Han...
• Are Japanese People Retarded?
  on Jul 30, 2016 in Learning Japanese Fluent Japanese Japanese Life Kanji
  When I turned around from the chalkboard, there was chubby Mr. Kamei with his plump fist stuffed inside his waistband. We were in the middle of English 301 and he’d either developed one fearsome case of poison ivy in his pants or was masturbating l...
• Your Brain on 10,000 Sentences
  on May 26, 2016 in Learning Japanese Heisig how to learn Japanese Remembering the Kanji
  You’re gonna need a way bigger hat All my life goals come from the internet. And so somewhere, in the ten minutes a day I spend surfing sites that don’t need to be immediately cleared from my browser, I stumbled upon the notion that 10,00...
• Renting an Apartment in Japan
  on May 14, 2016 in Living In Japan bowing Japanese customs japanese racism
  I recently moved to a new apartment, my sixth since coming to Japan, and I couldn’t be happier. My first place left a wee bit to be desired, consisting of a dreary, small box with alternating views of a machine shop and a cinder-block wall. Wel...
• 7 Rules for Karaoke in Japan
  on Mar 20, 2016 in Living In Japan Japanese beer Japanese coffee Japanese girls karaoke
  If you happen to find yourself in Tokyo, then Shibuya’s a great place to start an evening. So we were there at Starbucks, just Aki and me slamming back steaming black grandes and Hitomi sipping some kind of whipped cream desert marketed to her as a...

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