“Don’t play with your food!” I don’t remember how many times I heard this sentence when I was a child. Every time when I finished lunch, but my plate was not totally empty and I started pushing around the meat…
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Don’t play with your food!
Tagged with: Facebook, Fast food, food, Food and drink, French fries, Japan, McDonald's, Twitter
Posted in Food, Japanese
Posted in Food, Japanese
Operation desert storm
This article does not deal with military activities around the Gulf war, but rather describes living next to a Japanese high school. How do “desert storm” and Japanese high school fit together? Well, those of you who live (or have…
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Tagged with: Culture of Japan, high school sports grounds, Japan, sand, school sports grounds, wind
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
The Sweet Flag in my bath
Today is May 5th, which is a Japanese national holiday called Children’s Day (こどもの日-”kodomo no hi”) and which is part of the Golden Week. The day was originally called 端午の節句(“tango no sekku”) and was celebrated on the 5th day of…
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Tagged with: Acorus calamus, Bath, Calamus, Children's Day, Culture, Japan, Japan's national holiday
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
No entrance for the Mob
This morning on the train I was reading an advertisement for a local theme park. On the bottom of the advertisement a short notice, similar to the one I added to this post, was added. It basically says that organized…
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The point of view
In the last week Japanese lawmakers committed their (almost annual) faux pas by visiting the Yasukuni shrine, which also enshrines World War II war criminals. Such actions just increased the tensions that exist between China, Korea and Japan concerning the…
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Tagged with: Anti-Japanese sentiment, China, Ethics, Japan, Korea, Politics of Japan, Senkaku Islands, Tsushima island, Yasukuni shrine
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
Online banking in Japan
One might think that Japan with all its cutting-edge technology is a place where simple things like e-banking are well established. However, it turns out that Japan is a developing country concerning online banking, e-banking or other online services that…
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Tagged with: ATM, Automated teller machine, bank, bank costs, Credit card, e-banking, e-banking system, Financial services, Japan, large traditional banks, online banking
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
Japanese lanterns as traffic lights
Chochin (lanterns) can be found in Japan almost everywhere, especially in front of restaurants, shrines and private houses. In most cases they are made of bamboo and paper (or some material that looks like paper), are red and display the…
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Tagged with: car drivers, Japan, Japanese culture, Lantern, Traditional lighting equipment of Japan, Traffic light
Posted in Japanese
Posted in Japanese
Panem et circenses 2020 in Tokyo?
In the beginning of March the International Olympic Committee (IOC) inspection team visited Tokyo in response to the bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics by the city of Tokyo and the Japanese Olympic Committee. In spite of the bid for…
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High school baseball madness in Japan
In Japan, high school baseball (高校野球 koukou yakyuu) is taken quite serious and two annual tournaments are held nationwide. The 夏の甲子園 or “Summer Koushien” can be seen as the National High School Baseball Championship which crowns the best high-school team…
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Tagged with: baseball, High school baseball in Japan, Japan, the National High School Baseball Championship
Posted in Japanese, sports
Posted in Japanese, sports
April fool
In the rest of the world, April 1st is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other, i.e. the so-called April fool. However, in Japan April 1st is (maybe) the most…
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