
Everyone knows that smoking is pretty unhealthy - even in Japan people are smoking less and less. But for me, when it comes to my debilitating addiction to cool gadgets, I'd be happy to carry highly radioactive cell … [Read more...]

Everyone knows that smoking is pretty unhealthy - even in Japan people are smoking less and less. But for me, when it comes to my debilitating addiction to cool gadgets, I'd be happy to carry highly radioactive cell … [Read more...]

Just after I post about getting past the Mixi blockade by using a .edu address, Mixi shakes things up and I thought they closed up the .edu loophole. [UPDATE] Turns out, it still works, and the best part is, you don't need … [Read more...]

Update: This loophole doesn't work anymore, so you probably shouldn't spend your hard earned time getting a .edu account. I hear some other .edu addresses still work (like if you have a school email), but can't confirm … [Read more...]

Apple's iPad announcement has (finally) arrived blessed itself upon me, and of course, my first thoughts (besides when can I spend my money on this) are "How will this make Japanese learning better?" Of course, the iPad … [Read more...]
by Koichi

Japanese hospital experiences are known to be a little... wild... but when I saw this chart I thought it had some pretty interesting information in it. The main goal of this chart was to show how ridiculous America's per … [Read more...]

Of course, there are plenty of ways to *cough* get Japanese music for free, but here is one legit method I've been using for a little over a year now, and it works really well. That being said, I'm not much of a music … [Read more...]