Today I checked the USD/Yen exchange rate on XE and was surprised to see that it has reached the lowest level over the last 10 years (more than 10 years can’t displayed there). Although it was falling since approximately 2007,…
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Weak, weaker, US – dollar
Tagged with: Currency, Foreign exchange market, Japanese yen, United States, United States debt-ceiling crisis
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Spicy recommendation XIV
Last week a colleague from the office gave me with a pack of El Sabroso Blazin’ Hot Cheese Crunchies imported from the US. Unless the normal kind of spicy potato chips these sort has a nice balance of spice and…
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The “green curtain” boom
When you walk through the streets of Tokyo in these days you will see something new that has not been there one year ago: “green curtains”. The government encourages people to put fast growing plants in front of their windows…
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Don’t spray a softdrink in your face
Japanese summer is hot. Hotter than normal, as power savings are taking place everywhere across the country. People are trying to cool down by different methods and even I purchased an ice-pillow to have a somewhat cool environment when I…
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The RipStik in Japan
Recently I noticed that many kids on the street ride a strange skateboard like tool with two wheels (one in front and one in the back) which is driven by strange shaking moves of the owner. Thus after a quick…
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The “ice guy” for this summer
This summer in Japan is not only hotter than last year, the electricity saving efforts make it also feel much hotter inside the buildings which have usually air conditioning running at 100%. Thus, ice cream can be a refreshing thing…
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Bad day for “big birds”
Yesterday (July 21st, 2011) seemed to be a bad day for bigger airplanes when reading through the incident reports on “The Aviation Herald”. First, a brand new A380 from Korean Air got hit by severe cross winds while landing at…
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Foreign language capabilities
The graph on the left (click to enlarge) shows foreign language skills for various European countries, whereas in most of the cases students learn more than one foreign language. As pointed out by the authors of this statistics, knowledge of…
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Tagged with: Bureau of the Census, Education, Foreign language, Language education, Linguistics
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Foreign cheques in Japan
A few months ago I had an invited business trip to the US and I got all my expenses reimbursed via a cheque. Thus, about one month ago I went to my Japanese bank here in Tokyo and gave them…
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