Less apparent than Matsushiro’s celebrated samurai heritage, the town is also home to an open secret beneath its feet. Excavated in the final months of WWII, theZozan Imperial Wartime Tunnelswere the intended headquarters of the Japanese military and government during the expected invasion by the...
So where do you sit? On the rim of the bowl, of course! If you complain that it isn't very comfortable to sit on the rim of a porcelain toilet bowl, I would ask just how long you plan on sitting there, and why. Notice the non-porous vitreousness of this high-tanked seatless mo...
a如在宴席上西方人不议论令人作呕之事,会千方百计采用含蓄文雅的词来替代toilet,如:"Where can I wash my hand?"、"I wonder if I could go somewhere.”、“Can I add some powder?”等。 If at the banquet the westerner did not discuss the revolting matter, can use by any means possible contai...
2. People who don’t decorate their house:I want to start a neighborhood where over the top Halloween decorating is mandatory. If you don’t, you have to move out immediately or the rest of the neighbors will egg and toilet paper your house every day until next Halloween. 1. The fixed...
Presbyterians get good marks for being racially tolerant and it is not surprising that Melbourne has a Chinese Presbyterians Church (incidentally near PLC), and Presbyterian churches catering to Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Samoan and Sudanese congregations etc. While Presbyterians are unlikely to ...
Out of the blue in the week before Christmas, my daughter asked me if I had any idea of how the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, early in December, 1941, generally affected the Christmas mood that year. Of course, she knows that I wouldn’t have any personal memories of that period(as...
The exhibition is translated into ten languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Norwegian. The Fram Museum also has a polar simulator where you can experience the cold and the dangers of polar expeditions more than 100 years ago. Next to the...
Japanese ‘Yen stores’ are a cornucopia of small things you need (and others you didn’t previously know you needed), from storage boxes to (Japanese) tableware; toilet brushes and kitchen plastics to clothes hooks and even little socks for your furniture legs — and every item $2! Aeon ...
A charming luxury hotel in Downtown Kyoto, Grandbach has yummy rooms that come suited to both a Western taste and a Japanese taste. Some rooms have beds, whereas others have sleeping spaces with traditional tatami mats. All rooms are en-suite and come with a TV, a fridge, a kettle, and...
They were on a cruise and gearing up to explore Tokyo for the day. The breakfast was very good at the hotel, a good mix of Western and Japanese food but nothing too outrageous. This would not always be the case with our breakfasts. We spent a lot of time on trains in Tokyo on ...