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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: July 2015
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Friday, July 31, 2015. Japan's Death Star Laser. According to the Asahi Shimbun. Japan has a laser of epic Death Star. Kawanka Junji (surname first) of the Institute of Laser Engineering. Says the laser has achieved a power rating of 2 petawatts at 2 kJ for 1 ps (picosecond). An cynic would, however, marvel at where Japan's tax dollars ( yen. Are going, but whatever… this blogger is a science geek. Well&#...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: Remembering Hideo Nomo
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Despite the headline, he's not dead. This is just a look back at my favorite Japanese baseball player - Nomo Hideo (野茂 英雄 - surname first). I am aware that there are many of you out there who care little for 'American' sports, but you'll have to forgive me. Don't like what I'm writing about today? I saw him earlier when he first came up in Japan. I was proud… proud because No...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: The Best Advice For Successfully Surviving Japan
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Monday, August 3, 2015. The Best Advice For Successfully Surviving Japan. Since it's August, I can assume that all you new JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme. Participants are now nicely tucked away in your new homes/hovels and are enjoying life in Japan with all its newness and happy-happy-joy-joy verve. Sorry for the sobering thought, but I don't want you to get carried away. Don't be afraid, r...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: Todai-ji Temple In Nara
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Todai-ji Temple In Nara. First erected in 752 AD, Todai-ji. Is one of Japan's old capitals, and was once one of the Seven Great Buddhist temples. Listed as a UNESCO. Has a main area known as Kondo. That houses a separate building known as Daibutsuden. Great Buddha Hall) that contains the world's. Largest bronze statue of the Buddha. That is more commonly known as Daibutsu.
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: Writing Japanese Hiragana - A Book Review
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Writing Japanese Hiragana - A Book Review. When I was asked by Tuttle Publishing. To provide a review for their recently revised Writing Japanese Hiragana. Workbook written by Jim Gleeson, I must admit I had quite a bit of trepidation. When I arrived in 1990, I did indeed do the typical newbie thing and try and learn the language. Alphabet after that first month. An alphabet I r...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: Yokohama-e Woodcut Print - Kinda Pervy
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Thursday, August 13, 2015. Yokohama-e Woodcut Print - Kinda Pervy. My friend Matthew - a gentleman I have known for 25 years now - kindly sent me a link with some great ukiyo-e. Images attached. only they aren't ukiyo-e. Images. they are something called Y okohama-e. A woodcut sub-genre of ukiyo-e. That was produced back in the 1860s in the then-small fishing village of Yokohama. The image above shows a w...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: August 2015
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Monday, August 31, 2015. Americans and Canadians Now Welcome in Japan. Okay, that was a misleading headline - and one I did on purpose because I really didn't have enough room to write in the word 'poultry'. As of August 28, 2015, poultry imports from British Columbia, Montana, Arkansas, Kansas, California, Idaho, Washington and Oregon can enter Japan. Call us snowbacks, if you like…. Any baseballs that c...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: Noboko And Andrew: Minus 2
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Noboko And Andrew: Minus 2. So… in case you missed out, the diary of my three years in Japan is over. I had lost in trying to convince my girlfriend Noboko to defy her father's wishes and just say fug it and marry me. It gave me baruzu (balls, if said phonetically). Shite you want to pile on, it made me sick to my stomach. My mother's parents both decided to skip the wedding if sh...
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife: May 2015
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Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife. An outsider's view of life in Japan. Search This Blog and Get A Rife. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Japan Hit With 8.5 Magnitude Earthquake With Explantion Of Destructive Power. An 85 Magnitude earthquake (at 6:30PM local time) was felt throughout most of Japan on Saturday, May 30, 2015, though there was no immediate reports of damages or a tsunami. Centered off the Ogasawara. Told Japanese broadcaster NHK. Said there were no abnormalities at the crippled Fukushima. Causing near me...