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Sanu Saha — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:25:40 -0000

Thanx 4 Sharing the Facts

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Natasha — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:16:57 -0000

I saw the title for this before the page loaded and my immediate thought was, " Only ten?"

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らせんがん — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:45:19 -0000

おもしろい　ぜせすよ、、、

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TimAteMyDoritos — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:28:54 -0000

I'm pretty sure Bulgaria's Climate isn't standard issue in 3rd grade History. And it is "study" not "steady." Perhaps you should go back to school. We learned that in first grade :)

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Michael A. Robson — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:02:08 -0000

Japan is the only place with four distinct seasons.

진짜? 와하하하!!!.. 여기에 한국사람들이 없는데요?? ㅎㅎㅎㅎ

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April_unlimited — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:07:19 -0000

even with Koreans, Japanese are not the only creatures on Earth talking a bath at night moron...

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Johnpage — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:09:37 -0000

These are great things on these web site.

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Christoff — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:08:48 -0000

wow, I completely forgot about the killer bees. I remember, I also hitch hiked in Japan, and one particular time it was from a few college students who happened to invite me to smoke a pipe with them (I'm guessing this is extremely rare in Japan, and don't look down on me, I rarely do this). Later, while a little happy and full from some bombdalicious food I don't know the name of, I became intrigued by this gnarly looking bug on the ground. The students freaked and yelled it'll kill me, as they ran away. It was seriously huge. Don't mess with them!

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Grif — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:20:41 -0000

general i just think of japan as a countrey full of perverted buiness men and leav it at that

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Jonadab — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:46:44 -0000

Personally, I don't think kancho is really much weirder or worse than wedgies and swirlies and so on. Kids do mean things to each other all over the world, yo.

Mayonnaise, ugh. Then again, in North America it has in the last ten years or so become increasingly difficult to find food that's safe to eat at carry in dinners and similar functions, because everyone wants to slather everything in sour cream or put cream cheese in the icing, both of which are a good deal nastier than mayonnaise. I mean, there are a couple of foods containing mayonnaise that I actually like to eat (most notably deviled eggs), so it's not totally toxic like sour cream. I still don't want it on my pizza, though.

When I was a kid, I took a bath at night... once a week, on Saturday. As an adult, with active sweat glands, I find it necessary to shower shortly before going to work, whatever time of day that happens to be, especially in the summer time. If I'm going in to work at 12:30, I shower at 11:45. If I were to shower first thing in the morning (let alone the night before), I'd need a shower again before work.

I can ignore hornets, and they'll basically leave me alone. It's mosquitos I worry about, because they're out for blood -- literally. Does Japan have bad mosquitos?

I don't think the perversion of Christmas in Japan (where nearly everyone is Buddhist or Shintoist or somesuch anyway, so you can't expect them to care) would bother me in the same way it does in America, where 95% of Christians, who ought to be outraged, just go happily right along with it.

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raynorshine — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:34:55 -0000

you just blew my mind. About fifty things pertaining to RPG's just clicked into place.

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meiji — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:22:48 -0000

From what I've heard, the weird part is not that they have hornets from hell, but how calm they are about it.

I knew some friends who were out in the countryside in Japan, and the locals said "If you get stung, you need to get to the hospital within an hour!" "OK, where's the hospital?" "About 2 hours away..."

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Anne Phan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:59:31 -0000

AHA. I shower at night too. But I'm Asian,so I guess it's pretty normal.

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Joshua Zimmerman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:07:19 -0000

A country that has amazing bullet trains has yet to invent smoke detectors.

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tetsusnipple — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:31:49 -0000

Haha the picture is from Naisu no Mori, right? That is totally the weirdest movie ever.

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JackiJinx — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:15:21 -0000

So those, um, hornets. Are they a common site? Because I have a very strong fear of bees, especially wasps. I'm not allergic, but those suckers really scare me.

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JDillon911 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:39 -0000

I don't think many people have commented on the picture at the top "Japan: enough said"
tbh I think it looks liek the guy (o.O) is trying to explain the birth of teletubbies?? :O!

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Urgh — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:24:11 -0000

Mikado is freaking addictive. I actually prefer it to Pocky o//o

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YHDavid — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:03:52 -0000

There are vending machines for eggs and flowers. I found both of them in my rural town.

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YHDavid — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:38:33 -0000

Sadly, not so many Hot Spring places allow their customers wear swimming suits. I think why not. My friends did not want to go to hot springs only for that reason. I really wanted to enjoy Japanese-style hotel with hot springs with them.

In most hot springs, there are women only and men only bathrooms, so don't worry if you do not want to see naked men; you won't see them. However, you need to be careful: some hot spring hotels switch bathrooms for women to for men and vice versa because they think the customers should enjoy the hot springs in different settings. For example, only one room has the window with water-fall view, only one room has the connection to the outside hot springs, and so on.

Tokyo has hot springs, but I recommend the ones in Tochigi and Gunma prefecture. They have hundreds of hot springs. Hope you can enjoy it!

Oh! I forgot to mention about sex and shower. Of course, Japanese people that I know of at least take shower after having sex. If not, I need to emigrate to another country. Having sex and going to work without shower sounds totally disgusting, really.

Anyways, a bath tub is not the place to clean your body in Japan. You need to wash your body with soap and rinse off the soap throughly before you can get into the bath tub. Bath tub is the place to relax. You cannot move a lot inside the tub anyway, because the water temperature is usually above the body temperature. (So, there will be no grown-ups swimming in hot springs, though many children try.)

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YHDavid — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:16:47 -0000

Actually, they are made of wax!

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ren — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:22:31 -0000

I'm a U.S. ex-pat in Tokyo and these are my observations of things I find strange about Tokyo, Japan.

) Tokyo doesn't have sidewalks on every street. It is very dangerous as the police in no way enforces traffic safety. I'm talking about drivers running red lights, speeding around young people walking or riding a bike, and other dangerous activity. There was just an election and nobody seemed to think this was a problem -- though 3 children were killed by speeding cars just last month. In some areas, to atone for the death of a pedestrian there are large sidewalks on both sides of the street with barriers. Tokyo seriously needs standardization of sidewalks. Nothing fancy, just a white line wide enough for a single bike or walker to get through and a cheap green bar every 2 meters to discourage speeders. This is an affordable solution and will actually create more driving space in many areas while keeping kids safe.

) Tokyo is great because of its ban of firearms. However, some very bitter salary men and older women are openly hostile to everyone because they know they are not likely to be shot. Constant drunkenness here is considered to be a part of the culture. And people often ignore the harassment of people just trying to get home from work by seriously inebriated assholes who secretly want to die because they have no dreams.

) Many people in Tokyo just shower. But they shower at night. It just doesn't make sense if you're sweating in the heat of summer while having sex. You can distinctly smell this on the train every morning.

) People in Tokyo don't believe in vegetables. Unless you are eating Wa-Fu, a Japanese traditional meal, then you get maybe 5 pieces of a vegetable on your plate.

) Chicken breast meat isn't popular in Tokyo. Chicken just isn't very popular unless it is fatty and on a stick.

) Many Japanese people, especially older people like poor food. Lots of rotten mayonnaise, rotten eggs, baloney, fatty bacon, or deep fried "tonkatsu" crap.

) Actually Manga and Anime is not popular at all with mainstream Tokyo. The opinion is that people who like these things are still immature. Adult Manga and Anime is Akiba-Ke. Akihabara, Tokyo Style -- not cool.

) Onsen or Hot Springs would be better if everyone could wear a bathing suit and both men and women could sit together in the hot bath. I don't know about you but I don't like to sit around and watch naked men get in and out. I enjoy the healing volcanic water though.

All in all, I am quite happy living in Tokyo. These are mostly silly complaints. I've got National Medical Insurance even though I am a foreign national. I don't have to worry about guns. Families are happy and thriving here. Employees are still being paid survivable wages. There is still respect between executives and operations workers. The good list goes on and on.

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Aaron — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:56:08 -0000

Just stumbled across this and it made me laugh and think back a bit..

Theres a really cool monkey park in Arashiyama, Kyoto if anyone's interested. No hot springs there but they do a feeding session at lunch time and there are literally hundreds of the little critters running around.

Excuse the shameless self promotion but I also just uploaded my first "taste of japan" story as well that has a few interesting, yet annoying things I'm guessing others will either relate to or be interested in: http://www.aarondrew.com/bl...

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koichi — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:37:07 -0000

Yeah, the Chicago thing confuses me too, haha.

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Zhana :] — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:26:09 -0000

What exactly are you talking about? o.O
Where are you getting this Chicago business? If you're talking about Koichi, as far as I know, I don't think he's even from Chicago. Not that I would know. Cuz im not a stalker or anything >_>