CRISPY, CRUNCHY, CRAWLY: EATING BUGS IN JAPAN
I grew up eating bugs. When I would visit my grandparents in Yokohama, they used to offer me inago no tsukudani いなごの佃煮 つくだに, rice grasshoppers cooked in soy sauce, as an afternoon snack. At first,…
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Forget maid cafes! Lift weights and get jacked with cute girls at a MAID GYM instead
There are a ton of different types of maid cafes in Japan, catering to all sorts of tastes, ranging from Shangrila’s “plump” maids to Ita-Cafe’s uniformed Russian girls. But what abou…
Pollen season coming, but so are better treatments!
Last couple of years have seen quite a few new types of treatment for hay fever. And some of those cure the problem forever.
Owl No Mori: This café is quite a hoot
How many of you have read Harry Potter and wondered what it would feel like to have an owl as a pet? I know I certainly did, and thanks to Tokyoites’ obsession with animal cafés I got to find it out.…
Gun ownership in Japan
With statestics of last year's gun crimes and homicides rolling out in many countries, I saw this topic being discussed on a Japanese TV channel. In Japan, gun crime is basically low because gun…
Center Shiken: what is it, and why are people crazy about it?
Questions about Japan answered directly from Akihabara, Tokyo!
How was your experience of the recent snowstorm?
Since I live in the Pacific Ocean side of East Japan which was only affected mildly, we got only 20 minutes of snow. But then, the water taps outside are still frozen. All flower pots looked like the…
Why is Japanese government so stubborn on keeping military bases in Okinawa?
Okinawa Prefecture is scrambling to plot its next move in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling siding with the central government's effort to relocate the operations of a U.S. military base…
JAPANESE BODY LANGUAGE: 7 KEY GESTURES TO LEARN
It may surprise you to know there are close to 100 different gestures regularly used by Japanese people to communicate with friends, colleagues and the general public. While most of those used by Wes…
Japan's Rural Towns Are Luring Tax From Tokyo With Beef and Beer
Want a free case of craft beer? If you send 30,000 yen ($260) or more of your taxes to the town of Yamanouchi in Nagano prefecture, they’ll send you 24 bottles of a locally brewed beer to say thanks.…