お久しぶりです!『ohisashiburidesu』It's been a while! Per request, Japan [Off The Beaten Track] is going to begin again strong with Hokkaido 北海道, the number one place in Japan where people take adventuring very seriously! This … [Read more...]
Not to be confused with Dasai-tama... Some people in the Tokyo area claim that their slightly more rural neighbor is super lame by calling it 「ダ埼玉」 "Dasaitama," (dasai「ださい」= lame) but I am here to tell you that Saitama … [Read more...]
Going to Japan is all about having adventures. Be they accidental adventures, such as getting too drunk and passing out on the last train of the night and ending up in the middle of nowhere, or purposeful ones like hiking … [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...]
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...]
Japan's jobless rate is currently at 5.2%, which is a record high (way better than America's, but still). There is a 15.7% poverty rate, one of the highest amongst industrialized nations. 15,800 people live on the streets … [Read more...]