Now if you only have a few days to work like we did on a recent trip to Tokyo, trying to figure out how to best use your time and figuring out what’s “best” is a daunting task. The city is massive, the transportation is a criss-crossing maze, there are so many types of food...
Here is a simplified recount of what happened in my class when I asked the students what surprised them when they first came to Japan regarding the habits of Japanese people who ride trains. The habits of Japanese people on the train Japanese who sleep on trains When I posed my question, ...
The postwar reconstruction of Tokyo concentrated on the growth of Yamanote Line “satellite” districts, such as Shibuya, Shinjuku, and Ikebukuro. In 1964, Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics, and opened the high-speed “bullet train” to Osaka. By the 1960s, Japan was exporting a lot of new ...
In your article, you mention how “Anime is an important medium for understanding and sparking interest in Japanese culture” and I agree with you because that is what happened to me. I gain a genuine interest in Japan and its rich culture, history and traditions which made my trip to Japa...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN? He fled. President Ashraf Ghani hunkered down and made few public statements as the Taliban swept across the country. On Sunday, as they reached the capital, he left Afghanistan, saying he had chosen to leave to avoid further bloodshed. It's no...
(MHLW). The MHLW isable to updatewhat drugs are classified as harmful through ministerial ordinances. The change of the latter can happen quickly and affect laws that may prohibit the use of a drug. This happened with the newly discovered cannabinoid THC-O, which was deemed hazardous and...
The claps for the accomplishment evoked me someone special whom I was not patient to tell what has happened just now. I am calling my mother. “hello, mother it is me. I have failed in the exam.” “Really?” she chimed in. I could feel nuance of her, however, I just wanted to...
inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, things were going from bad to worse. The plant had lost power and it was losing the ability to cool its reactors. At that time, it was not clear what was happening—but it was later confirmed that nuclear meltdowns happened in three reacto...
But after a while there were fewer male telephone operators than female. So "mosu mosu" eventually disappeared and "moshi moshi" became the standard. Historians say this happened in 1902, and both men and women used "moshi moshi" after that. ...
Don’t get me wrong I certainly agree with you rather than Cowen on technology-the idea that all the important tech had happened by 1959 is just a surreal claim. I would tend to agree with you about the post Interenet era as the time ‘After Christ.’ ...