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  • Bosozuku Bentos

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    From Travellers’ Tales, the Far Eastern Economic Review’s blog: How do you find entrepreneurial employees in Japan? The founder of a leading boxed-lunch seller has found the answer. According to the latest issue of Japan Entrepreneur Report, the head of Tamagoya, Sugihara Isatsugu, hires school dropouts and juvenile delinquents rather than college graduates. Because they…

  • A Take on the Blogosphere

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    The Japanese blogoshpere is catching up, or then again maybe it isn’t (read the comment by Marxy at the bottom). Update: And the discussion continues.

  • Do You Blog?

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    Some Japanese blogging figures for ya: The number of people operating blogs on the Internet totaled 3.35 million in Japan at the end of March and is seen more than doubling in the next two years, while blog-based markets are expected to expand by about 40 times in value by the end of March 2007,…

  • Erogging

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    Found through Warren: There are blogs, moblogs, vlogs and even Kellogs. But now, thanks to liberated attitudes and the Japanese language’s lack of an “l,” the latest online fad in this country is erogs, erotic blogs, according to Asahi Geino (5/19). […] “Eroggers, the name given to the mostly female participants who post saucy pictures…

  • Something Smells

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    Shibuya stinks.

  • No to Japan = No Tourists

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    I hope the Chinese demonstrators are happy now — over 12 000 cancellations of trips to China made by Japanese in the past few days. I’m sure owners of duty-free shops and souvenir shops throughout the country are weeping as I write this. On the other hand, I imagine it’s probably really cheap to get…

  • Insect Kitty

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    Check out this hilarious post on the new Hello Kitty branded insect repellant.

  • The Pink Hamster Group

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    From Japan Today: “A member of the Pink Hamster group lights up in Shibuya.” Huh? Update: From Marxy: “They’re a street art social protest on the ‘hamster wheel’ absurdity of modern society. You keep on running and you just keep turning that big wheel of capitalism. How poetic.” Update: I’m the ass — ignore the…

  • What's a Cassette?

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    This week marks the start of the school year in Japan, and so in the English classes I teach we’ve been giving the kids their new books. For the first time, the books come with a CD, so that they can do some listening exercises at home. For those that a repeating a year, and…

  • We’re #1

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    Can you spare some change? Tokyo remains the most expensive city in the world in terms of cost of living, a report released Tuesday by the Economist Intelligence Unit revealed. (Kyodo News)