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On Eating Foreign Sushi in Japan
I turned on the TV in a Thai hostel last year, and compared international news broadcasts. Fox and MSNBC were covering the shootings in Colorado; Al Jazeera was reporting on what nations could buy with the tax revenue they lost … Continue reading
On Praying to a Fox in Japan
Nobody in Japan seems to know anything about Shinto.
On Smoking Cigarettes in Japan
Rene Magritte’s “Treachery of Images” shows us a picture of a pipe, then denies that a picture of a pipe is a pipe at all. Of course, we get it now: It’s a picture of a pipe. In Japan, I … Continue reading
On Being Alone in an Office In Japan
This week, a guest post from former Japanese expat Alanna Schubach.
On Dealing With A Million Tiny Uncertainties In Japan
Run too many programs on a laptop and it runs slower. There’s only so much a single chip can process. In the old days you could push your processor past a limit – “overclocking the processor,” a phrase that has … Continue reading
On Figuring Out What’s Up With the Yen in Japan
What’s the least interesting thing that can fall on you? The yen.
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