Obligatory Valentine’s Day. How to make a guy feel special!
February 6th, Waitangi Day in NZ and 1 week and 1 day until Valentine’s day. Valentine’s Day is a western celebration celebrated in an uniquely Japanese way. This week is […]
Category Archives: Only in Japan
Who is that masked man?
Previous posts have tried to address such questions as,” Do you really get squashed into the train? ” “Do Japanese really bathe naked with strangers?” ” Is all Japanese food […]
It’s like a foreign language to me!
Here I am living in Japan, working as an English teacher, loving the culture, the food the people and the language. The are times when I stumble with the language […]
Living in Japan – It’s a dog’s life!
Are you thinking what I was thinking? This gave me quite a start! This pole is outside a local convenience store on the way to my school. Now convenience is […]
Smoking Hot Topic
The Japanese are still prolific smokers despite statistics showing the number of smokers is at an all time low. Cigarettes are still very cheap and very easily accessible with vending […]
A bit of toilet humour
The Japanese have taken a simple functional every day piece of technology and developed the absolute crap out it. Pun intended. The Japanese toilet not only deals with bodily functions […]
