Last month I had a wonderful 3 days trip to Amami Oshima, a big sub-tropical island of Kagoshima in Japan. Amami Oshima has been on my must-visit lists for a while. Recently I watched a Japanese history drama called Segodon, which describes the whole life story of Saigo Takamori, one of the most influential samurai …
Go to a shrine with your colleagues…? There are a lot of shrines in Japan. Do you know as a unit of company, people in Japan also visit a shrine regularly? When I worked in a sales company, every first work day of the new year, our team members would gather together in front of …
If you love Japan and want to live here longer to discover the culture, working here is an option. But how to find a job here in Japan? Same as most other countries, you will need to speak business level Japanese if you want to work in Japan. But there are still exceptions. A lot …
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Japan is one of the biggest gourmet country in the world, you could find not only tons of Michelin Star Restaurants, but also lots of local Izakaya (a type of Japanese bar in which a variety of small, typically inexpensive, dishes and snacks are served) , local family restaurants everywhere you go.This time I want …
Japan is one of the cleanest, safest, and most convenient countries in the world. If you ask me where in Japan you could feel these points most, I would say, of course, the washing room. This time I want to tell several episodes of mine when I first came to Japan relative to the toilets. …
I am quite a fan of the idea of Danshari in Japan. Danshari (断捨離) means saying goodbye to something unnecessary in your life to have more space for those which makes your heart really beat. For years I was always confused about dealing with those little coins including Japanese and other countries’ which I was …
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