Japan marks one month to go until Rugby World Cup kicks off
World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont said earlier this month that the tournament "will break records and make history on and off the field as Asia's first Rugby World Cup." Consider…
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2019 Top Jobs in Japan Week 34
On Aug 19, 2019If 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 GaijinPot and pick some of the ones we think are most inter…
How Yayoi Kusama’s Outdoor Pumpkin is Protected During Hurricanes
photo by spoon & tamago (2017)If you’ve ever visited Japan’s magical art island of Naoshima you’ll most certainly have visited one of its most iconic pieces of art: Yayoi Kusama’s yello…
The Naoshima Art Islands
Over the summer Spoon & Tamago planned a retreat to Naoshima and its neighboring islands in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. And on the blog we’ve devoted several articles to the 12 i…
American Arrested For Shooting NHK Fee Collector
Aichi Prefectural Police have arrested an American national for allegedly shooting a license fee collector for public broadcaster NHK with a gun, according to NHK news. At 4:54 p.m. on Saturday …
Pedestrian Dies Before Reaching Next Shady Patch
A pedestrian has passed away today in Japan after failing to reach the next shady area on the footpath. The man was found on a virtually shadeless section of path – sprinkled with a few pole sha…
Episode 10: Lost Dogs & Found Blogs
With over 600,000 readers each month, Tokyo Cheapo is the site of choice for value hunters who want their yen to go further in Tokyo. To find why we started this site, check out the Tokyo Cheapo…
SoftBank to Lend Founder and Employees Billions to Invest in Fund
SoftBank Group is leaning on its employees, including Chief Executive Masayoshi Son, for cash as the firm rushes to raise an ambitious technology fund amid volatile markets. The Japanese company…
Japanese Complete = ジャパニーズ・コンプリート
Based on a report from 2000 that analyzed a large corpus of Japanese text, it says that at roughly the 750-800 character line, 90% of kanji occurrences in the wild are covered. By looking at th…
Set of rare Japanese whiskies fetches record HK$7.19 mil. at auction
KYODO NEWS - Aug 17, 2019 - 22:02 | All, LifestyleA collection of rare Japanese whiskies fetched 7.19 million Hong Kong dollars ($917,000) at an auction Friday in Hong Kong, a record high f…