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It’s a famous style! Sapporo style is miso ramen with butter and corn! It’ll raise your core temp a couple degrees, it’s good solid pioneer food. Dad knows what’s up

Mead’s a great idea. So! Japanese gods definitely accept wine! I recognize it’s a little bit of a special case(enshrined spirit of once-human emperor and empress), but at the Meiji-Jingu there’s a huge wall of offered European wine (and another of Japanese nihonshu ‘sake’). And in the...

I’ve seen the haunted doll in Hokkaido, where supposedly her hair grows. She’s kept at a little countryside buddhist temple. You’d expect a spooky experience but in fact it was a beautiful summer day and little country temples like that are just family homes. They were having a picnic, scallops...

Marx, Adam Smith and what - keynes?

In Izumo they call in kamiarizuki. Still, have you ever heard of anything more Japanese? The gods have a professional conference

Kitsune mask joke is good

yup although in my experience when people say “shōwa jidai” they usually mean postwar. For a little mountain village, those houses could be 70s

Greet your neighbors!! It’s how they know to dig you out when the building falls down in an earthquake. In the 1994 Hanshin earthquake, many casualties were students and foreigners! People without a local network

You can also watch the movie KWAIDAN dir Kobayashi. Has “Hoichi” and the Yuki-onna and two other youkai stories. It’s gorgeous, iconic movie

Mogami is a famous river up in the Tohoku!

LETS GET THIS BREAD It’s because her name is wheat!

That totem looks like something you’d pick up at a craft fair or a reservation truck stop, so, as an American I accept it

God bless freckles

Ah, the famiresu. The Bikkuri Donkey used to be so awesome. Like a 90s Chili’s, full of weird junk. But in 2016 or 17 they simplified the parfaits and it’s not as fun

And once again, to show it’s not a fluke

TL showing respect for tradition. Perchance @SomeGuy10002 knows what I mean

HELL YEAHHHHHH @Brobobo it gets wilder

@Engineer_Tf2 this one got filed weird

What a long, strange trip it’s been. Bless you for finishing it. I’ll tag @Esper , who started this with Musashi Scans wayyyy back in the day.

This is the one that gets an actual ending? Incredible