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Let’s talk about trains being late~
[Irrelevant featured Image: Summer picnic in Yoyogi park] Japanese railway companies are known worldwide for their punctuality. However, this doesn’t prevent mishaps from happening once in a while. Considering that Japan is also notorious for overworking and in-office pressure, individuals driven to suicide are unfortunately a common cause for disruption of train services. Especially after…
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What my sensei taught me today vol.306
In Japanese slang Animal Video (AV) stands for adult video a.k.a. Porn
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A day in the bank and the meaning of omotenashi
If you don’t know, Japanese language contains the unique term お持て成し (omotenashi), which means ‘hospitality; reception; treatment; service; entertainment’ according to jisho.org. However, the word’s accurate meaning is combined with the traditional Japanese view towards hospitality, and how it is expressed when treating visitors. The basic point lies in the fact that the host tries to…
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The things I do for clear files with anime
Today was an extremely hard day, following an almost sleepless night, which in turn followed another ‘work hard, play hard’ day, which at least followed a good sleep night. Even writing about it is exhausting, so I will move straight to the point.I went inside Lawson and rampaged on pocky choco sticks because they had…
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In between the rain showers
The rain season or 梅雨(tsuyu) has officially started in Japan. Which means, that: you can’t do laundry without owning a drying machine (or visiting a coin laundry) you will leave the house dry with raincoat, umbrella and all available equipment, but will still arrive to school or office soaked wet the day that you decide…
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HOW STUFF WORKS: buying a mattress.
[Random featured image: A ramen shop that offers larmen? ? I’m confused.] Mattresses are usually humongous and inconvenient to move, right? Fear not, because air sucking can now make transportation of a mattress easy as hell. I got my mattress from Nitori (the japanese equivalent of IKEA) and even though I knew what to expect,…
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