By Donald Ash | Articles
I’ll be honest with you, I AM a Disney fan and I have been since I was just a little guy. I mean how can I not like a studio who has a duck named “Donald” as one of their most beloved characters? I used to hate that connection in elementary school, though. Everybody thought […]
This may be a little late, but I still think it will be very useful info for some of you. I have gotten quite a few emails asking about the new Japanese residency management system for foreigners along with the Alien Registration Cards (ARCs). A fellow teacher of mine recently did a visa renewal and […]
You know, all this time I thought the giant Gundam in Odaiba was just that…a statue. Did you know it was battle-ready??? NO JOKE!! I was standing there taking pictures when this music came on and the Gundam machine started moving its head. The Gundam’s eyes lit up, and some steamed from the robot. I […]
As much as I wish I had the invisibility skills characteristic of the legendary ninja warriors…I don’t. I haven’t gone anywhere, I’ve actually been quite busy…working on quite a bit of Japan Guy stuff actually…you’ll see 😉 . I wanted to say a quick hello to you guys before I retreat back into the forests […]
I was sitting next to one of my Japanese coworkers today and we were talking about ropeways, cable cars, and just some differences between English and Japanese. For some reason or another, I was flipping through a Japanese textbook of mine, and tucked away index were some Japanese notes I had scribbled to myself. On […]
I don’t know how many people were trying to get to the Japan Guy website this weekend, but if you were, I suspect you were getting some weird, incomprehensible error message. Oddly enough, so was I. I have was trying to fix an image problem, but ended up crashing my entire site instead. Umm, talk […]
“BING, BONG, BING, BONG, BING, BONG, BING, BONG.” That grandfather clock-like tone means that cleaning time is over, and it’s time for the noon break. For the last four days my noon break has been a little different than normal. Every day after lunch & shouji I’ve been getting schooled in the ways of Japanese […]