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Wed, 7 Mar 2007 | By dan_in_japan | Views [1968]
So it seems as if I am branching out with regard to employment, because recently I scored my first translating job! I am sure the money will be Y0.00, but if I do a good job, I might get a few free dinners.... There is a noodle bar in my neighbourhood ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Sat, 9 Jun 2012 | By steve_and_emma | Views [1539] | Comments [1]
We decided we just couldn’t leave this part
of the world without getting a little taste of Japan. Air Asia meant we could get to Osaka cheaply
but we knew it was going to be expensive once we landed. So, for once, we didn’t use every ... Read more >
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 | By bergdorf-brunette | Views [865]
Japan ist glaube ich das einzige industrialisierte Land auf diesem Planeten, das vom Gerüch Rauchen sei ungesund noch nichts weiß. Meine Vermutung wäre ja, dass die Japaner schon als Kinder zu viele Räucherstäbchen inhaliert haben. Aber Spass beiseite, ... Read more >
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 | By peter_allen | Views [797] | Video
Friday: The last day of Gunma orientation. Mostly it was a day of Japanese culture workshops. I would have liked a wider range, there were no visual arts for example, some calligraphy or sumi ink painting would have been nice. Instead there were ... Read more >
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 | By chubipower | Views [688]
My first glimpse of Osaka is a mass of brownish buildings on a vast piece of flat land... curiously tucked amidst mountainous region and weaving rivers. My 6 hour 25 minute flight to Kansai International Airport was the quietest I ever sat on. There ... Read more >
Tags: japan, kansai, kyoto, nara, osaka
Mon, 21 Jul 2014 | By pcube | Views [529]
Away from the scintillating neon lights of Tokyo’s futuristic mega structures and the well trodden, history-seeped lanes of Kyoto, lies a small town on the Pacific coast: Minamisanriku, a haven for both family holidayers and backpackers. Facing ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, sunrise, sunset
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 | By dyaver | Views [453]
Sitting in Tokyo airport waiting for flight to Bangkok. Can't wait to get there.
Sun, 28 Jul 2013 | By fujihiker | Views [447]
July 26.013 7am (PDT)
After 11 hours of flying & 6. Hours of sleep. Over the last 3 days. Our teams have arrived in Tokyo. The reason for lack of sleep is that I had no sound for movies or audio and I got moved to an. Area in the front ... Read more >
Thu, 25 Dec 2008 | By peter_allen | Views [373] | Comments [3]
It's Christmas day, I'm at my desk with no actual work to do, but I have to sit here or take an annual leave day. Since there's no particular thing I have to do, and since I live in the carpark, I might as well sit inside and use the internet. I went ... Read more >
Tue, 12 May 2015 | By | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry
It was cold, it was dark, and I couldn't speak Japanese. We had spent an emotionally grueling day exploring the harrowing atomic bomb museum in Hiroshima, followed by a trip to the venerable island of Miyajima, with its solemn wild deer. Now it was ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Sun, 2 Apr 2017 | By thomasz | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 21 Feb 2015 | By europeanfoodie | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
Ingredients Bones Pork meat Noodles Egg Scallion Toasted Nori sheet Sesame oil Soy sauce(it is a Shoyu Ramen) How to prepare this recipe Ramen tastes at best with gyoza dumplings: Fist you need to prepare Tonkotsu (pork bone broth), cook ...
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Tags: 2015 Passport & Plate: SRI LANKA
Wed, 16 May 2007 | By nznl1 | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 20 Jun 2010 | By ledge14 | Photo Gallery
Photos from the Land of the Rising Sun
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