Sunday, June 4, 2023

And the Winner is... Rakuten Mobile!

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  Finding a Phone Carrier in Japan in 2023 Hello, welcome to the blog! I've been off for a while but I decided to get back into writing ...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

For a Cheaper Phone in Japan... Go with an MVNO SIM Card [ Updated ]

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Who out there besides me is just fed up with the pricing for phones in Japan? If you raised your hand just now, there is an answer: a...
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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Kyoto in the Spring

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Kiyomizu (清水寺), one of the most beautiful and famous temples in Japan. In the foreground you can see some cherry blossoms in full bloom. ...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Japan CM of the week - The Neighbor is a HUNK!

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OK, it's been a while but I'm back. This last several months have been busy. Maybe I should correct that and say the last year ha...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Six Things to Do in Summer in Japan

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It's summer in Japan, and with the summer you get heat and humidity like almost nowhere else, but with it there's also a ton of s...
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

To the Ten'nousai Festival [ Machiya/Minami Senju - GX7 ]

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Yesterday (June 6th, 2015), I had a chance to see one of Tokyo's really awesome events. The Ten'nousai (天王祭) is a festival for S...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Six Days Left in Chiba? (Part 1 - Looking Back: 5 things I miss about old Japan)

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OK, so this post has been a while coming, but today I finally have a breather so I can sit down and write. I will be moving. Not out o...
Friday, February 20, 2015

No way! What really gets under your skin? [ Musings ]

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You ever have one of those days? You're rushing for the door in the morning, glance in the mirror and see you didn't get all the s...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Japan CM of the Week - Hugh goes for a drive

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Hello all. How goes your week? Mine is much better now after seeing this odd but kinda nice commercial. This is Toyota's new ad fo...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Lost - In memory of my furry friends

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Sometimes it really comes out of nowhere. Today, I woke up a bit late, hung-over some but not too much from attending two parties in one...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

I'm of an iPhone - what to buy and which carrier to use, smartphone life in Japan (as of December, 2014)

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So you want to get a smartphone in Japan? What should you go with? Today I would like to write a little guide to smartphone life in Japan,...
Monday, December 8, 2014

I'm back! - thoughts on things happening in Japan and my new iPhone

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This is a little street view of a quite area in Machiya, Tokyo ( 町屋 ), a new hangout of mine and a great hidden gem in the big city. So ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Japanese Festivals - the Best and Worst Ranked!

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This video is one I took the other day at the Shin Matsudo (新松戸) Festival near where I live in NW Chiba Prefecture. I hadn't been ther...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

And Now For a Break From the Seriousness, Let's Have Some Crazed Crying on Air

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So how goes your week? Here in Japan there's been a lot of bad shit happening. I could go into details of oddballs crimes (like a guy wh...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Tokyo Showers - Yes, It's Rainy Season Again [ GX7 ]

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This is a little video I took along the streets of Tokyo yesterday, when we had a sudden (and I mean very sudden), torrential rain come do...