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“Akai kutsu” is still a familiar children’s song people will have heard in school. The subtext is that ‘going away with the foreigner’ probably actually means dying of TB at a missionary hospital Yokohama Chinatown’s cool. Good food, lively.

If you haven’t tried basashi: go to Kumamoto and eat some. It’s kickass

@Angry_Panda if there’s a way to delete a post I don’t know it

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I’ll bet you know this, but that’s the microwave’s identity in the Japanese language as it’s spoken. レンチン and チンして and so on. “oh, the coffee’s cold, let me ding it”

This and This. Yuppp! I’ll just add that for most homes, at least in the parts of the country I lived in (THE NORRRTH), LP gas was delivered in canisters, not by pipeline. So the inconvenience factor for using a lot of LP gas is very very high.

Hey @sarusa what’s the original because that may BE an oven, small household convection oven/microwave units are basically what home cooks use in JP Edit: yup オーブンレンジ is the combo kind. Electric heating or microwave heating option. They got all sorts of various features based on model. I agree...

The grand tradition of Hokkaido dad BS

Shariputra, If all the wise mathematicians in the three thousand thousandfold worlds counted and calculated for eons as numerous as the sands of as many Ganges rivers as there are sands in the river Ganges, they would not be able to even begin to enumerate the powers of...

Real

F For the apes who take over your house afterward

net print contents are crazy convenient. Yamaha even distributes sheet music thru it

uwasa 噂

trying to rederive Love Hina from first principles

Went to aokigahara once. (Before mr paul). The sign with the debt relief hotline sort of put it all in perspective Edit: I feel I should add that it wasn’t at all a dark or occult experience. It’s miles of stunning forest and I tried horsemeat for the first time at the station.

Bon! Bon! Matsumoto, bon! Bon! Bon! Matsumoto is my hometown’s sister city! Good soba good BASASHI clear air and perfect water for wasabi farms. Also the Suzuki headquarters (the tiny violin people not the dirtbike people).

Good pun in the title. Classic song

A thing you kinda have to drive there in person to understand about narrow mountain roads in Japan, is that they have a ditch for water runoff on one or both sides. It’s about a foot deep and a foot wide and completely square. Often they’re covered with gratings or tiles, but often they are...

Two chapters to explain the premise seems like a lot. Get to the travel.