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• Trip to Kawagoe (2)
  • Jordan: One of my favorite places in all of Japan. I lived for sometime in Sayama city a few stops away from Kawagoe on the Seibu Shinjuku line and...
  • Deas: Wow! This is crazy nostalgic for me. One of my first trips outside of Tokyo was to Kawagoe. I called it “Purple Potato Town”...
• Hate the sin not the sinner (2)
  • Harvey: Haaha, I love that line Alex!
  • Alex: I wonder if there’s an ancient confucian proverb for, “Hate the game, not the player.”
• Japanese Emoticon orz (4)
  • cartoon photo: it’s my first encounter with this orz emoticon. never heard about it previously
• Overwork - karoushi (3)
  • Haf: For those who don’t like their work, working overtime is extremely unhealthy and dangerous. Guess what is a major contribution to...
• Hamamatsu Kite Festival (2)
  • harvey: Got it, thanks Mike!
  • Mike Wilson: Just pointing out the typo for Shizuoka (Shizouka).
• Japanese Mosquito Repellent - Katori Senko (23)
  • Agitated: I just returned to the states from Japan where I burned these all the time. They work great!!! I wish I could fnd them in a package of...
• Learn with Real Japanese (1)
  • Kitty: Hola Harvey-san mi amigo! Love this post. I am still studying my Spanish every day and am constantly amazed at how the tapes and texts I am...