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Halloween in Japan is a big deal. Over the past couple of decades, the holiday has slowly grown from a small event celebrated only by foreigners to one of the biggest party weekends in the country. T…
The game takes place in the year 1274 during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. You play as Jin Sakai, a samurai lord of Tsushima Island, who lives to protect his lands and people from the Mongol ho…
When I first came to Japan, I heard the rumors about how infamously difficult the N1 exam was. A common story going around the foreign community at the time was that the N1 of the Japanese Language P…
When searching for an apartment in Tokyo, one of the most important decisions you can make is which train line you’re on. The commute, rush hour, neighborhood restaurants, supermarkets, and parks are…
Japan’s “Go To Travel” campaign kicked off in July despite the coronavirus showing no chill. The government sunk a whopping ¥1.35 trillion on the promotion to boost domestic tourism. Unfortunate…
Japanese work culture can be many things: diplomatic, hierarchical, conformist, machine-like, even suffocating. Globally, Japan is known for its hard-working salarymen who work long hours f…
By Kirsty Kawano May 20, 2020 3 min readOne Japanese yokai (goblin) character has a long history of helping the nation deal with plagues, and the outbreak of COVID-19 has made it into something …
You can still work in Japan whether your Japanese level is conversational or zero. By GaijinPot Blog May 14, 2020 1 min readDon’t speak Japanese but want to work in Japan? Each week we look…
Check our top jobs in Japan for foreigners this week! On May 11, 2020If you’re looking to work in Japan, check back here each week as we look through our database of top jobs in Japan posted to …
Work from home as a recruiting coordinator, translator, or IT engineer with these remote positions available now! The global trend of rethinking the way we work and our relationship with physica…
