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stop-over in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan travel blog

stop-over in Tokyo

A travel blog entry by crashdot

Where I discover my first squat toilet. In the very modern Nareita airport. Made by American ...

Back hame again again!, Yokohama, Japan travel blog

Back hame again again!

A travel blog entry by japanesewhisper

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... on the bus and I was back in the flat pondering if Scotland were nothing but a dream. Strangely I had the same feeling about Japan when I was in Scotland. So another brief update of 6 months. I moved in May from Nakgawa to the centre of Yokohama, ...

Kamakura, Kamakura, Japan travel blog

Kamakura

A travel blog entry by misspia

Today we went back to Kamakura where there is a series of old lochs from the time Kamakura was the capital city. The lochs failed and there were many ships from China that smashed into the shore. This was fun to explore at low tide. You can pick up ...

Mein erstes Erdbeben, Tokyo, Japan travel blog

Mein erstes Erdbeben

A travel blog entry by chiisairisu

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... gerade auf der Seite vom Japanischen Wetterdienst, der sich auch um die Erdbeben Information kümmert, und tatsächlich: es war ein kleines Erdbeben um genau die Zeit, wo ich was gespürt hab. Also bitte, ich hab mein erstes Erdbeben in Japan erlebt. ...

Notes on Japanese Culture and the Imperial family, Kyoto, Japan travel blog

Notes on Japanese Culture and the Imperial family

A travel blog entry by wa2y2d

... in Tokyo. 8 Million live in the city and 4 million in the suburbs.        Japan is a constitutional monarchy.  The postwar constitution of 1946 states that the emperor only has symbolic power. He officiates at ...

First Host Family- Aug. 28 - 29, Sapporo, Japan travel blog

First Host Family- Aug. 28 - 29

A travel blog entry by kaelan

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This will be a short blog of my Saturday and Sunday, I will finnish the rest of the week tomorrow.   Saturday was the welcoming party for rotary exchange students. We arrived at 1 and at first it was just a formal introduction to the rotary exchange ...

Second week of School- Aug.30 - Sept.5, Sapporo, Japan travel blog

Second week of School- Aug.30 - Sept.5

A travel blog entry by kaelan

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School is ridiculously hot this week, there is no air conditioning in the classrooms and everyone has fans that they use but you still sweat buckets. All week it has been around 30C or higher and the humidity makes it even hotter. The main word ...

Rotary Christmas Party, Isahaya, Japan travel blog

Rotary Christmas Party

A travel blog entry by meganchan

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We all headed to Isahaya for a Rotary organized party for everyone. It was pretty fun but we had a schedule of things to do. They brought in a cooking teacher so we cooked meat loaf and made sushi and cut up fruit and did a bunch of random food ...

Meeting My Host Family!, Tokyo, Japan travel blog

Meeting My Host Family!

A travel blog entry by mmdillho

... and excited! I guess they were glad that I wouldn't be drinking lots of regular milk, which is very expensive in Japan. Communicating with my host family is difficult, mostly because my Japanese vocabulary is very limited and it takes me a long time to ...

First step towards the next stage, Nagoya, Japan travel blog

First step towards the next stage

A travel blog entry by xerius

... of an overdose to shut it down for a while. After that, it's graduate school time. I'm feeling pretty good about it, really. With nearly four years in Japan under my belt working for the same company, it's time for a change. Soon comes a new ...

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