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If you don’t already know, Kurikinton Fox is a talented guitar player who covers a lot of Otaku-Centric songs from Haruhi to Final Fantasy. With his Ibanez RG1570 and his blessed fingers from God, he puts a new coat of paint on the songs we know and love.
These videos […]

20 Jul, 2008

Yoshio Kojima Teaches Kanji

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I’ll leave the explanation to Melissa over at Mboogiedown Japan who also posted these videos. But now I too will never forget the kanji for Naku. LOL.

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Short Version: Kojima-san is a popular comedian on television now who’s shtick is saying “sonna ni no kankei ne […]

16 Apr, 2008

Automated Translators

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A brief anecdote about why automated translators aren’t always the best. Last week I was going through work email. I often use Google’s translation services as a quick assistant to help me get the “gist” of company emails. Often there is quite a bit of Kanji that I don’t understand, so this helping hand becomes […]

25 Mar, 2008

Hanami Dango - Tribute to Metamorphosis & Dreams

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store-bought Hanami Dango saves a failed Homemade Dango Day
I’m about 2 months half away from my 21st birthday and the angsty, emo and spotty 14 year old kid feels lightyears away - to think on her is to almost stand back and observe a whole different person. I reckon I can empathize […]

14 Jan, 2008

Being Sick, Japanese Translation

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This evening I sat down to do a writing exercise that is due next Monday. We have to turn in two short writings about our Golden Week weekend. Since I spent most of mine up until Thursday sick, I tried to describe this as best I could in Japanese. I’m really passionate about the subject […]


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  • Neil Duckett: I’m working all week …. but, i’m working out of the Shinjuku office so my travel for the day is a 12 minute walk each way instead
  • ジェイソン (Jason): Like Neil, I’ll be working all week. I did manage to score Thursday off to visit some of Reiko’s friends … but that’s abou
  • billywest: @Jason C - Sounds awesome. I’m on the way. Call you when I get to Shimoda @ジェイソン and Neil - Hope you guys get some real su