By Donald Ash | Articles
In the studio with Peter Galante, founder of Japanesepod101!Let’s something we haven’t done in quite a while-an interview! I had the pleasure of talking with Peter Galante, the founder of Japanesepod101. In this fun-filled interview, we get to know the person behind a useful Japanese product. We have an in-depth discussion about living in Japan, […]
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The Japan Travel Experience – HiroshimaRise and Shine…Just after 6:00 AM, and I’m headed to Hiroshima. Today, we’re going to go, and look around, just stay for a few days, and I’m going to take you with me. So I’ll see you guys on the Shinkansen And Boom, just like that, four short hours … Did […]
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It’s been a while since I’ve actually lived in United States. Lately, I’ve been revisiting so many of the things that got me interested in coming to Japan in the first place. Without a doubt, anime is one of those things. One of the first full-length anime features I ever watched, was “The Poltergeist Report,” […]
Renting in Japan can be extremely expensive, in large part because of that pain-in-the-butt key money. This one time, sometimes exorbitantly expensive, fee is a major reason why many foreigners may feel hesitant about moving to a new place. When it was time for me to leave Tsukuba, the city I lived in for about […]
Now that I’m pretty settled I sat back and realized just how busy the start of this year has been. I have moved twice in 60 Days?!? First it was Ouji, now it’s…well, I’ll tell later, keep reading: I told that being away from my beloved writing hasn’t been because of my master ghost ninpou […]
If you live in Japan long enough, you are undoubtedly going to experience a funny, weird, or strange incident at some point or another. So here is one of my recent stories. I got on the train with badly sprained foot*, I was in a splint and all bandaged up. There was a kind, Japanese […]
I had the strange pleasure of playing one of my favorite, childhood superheroes on Japanese TV, well, sort of. I got to do a reenactment of one Enrique dos Santos. If you’re not familiar with the story, there was this Brazilian man who enjoyed painting himself green in order to look like Marvel Comics’ “The […]