
Someone asked us recently about theme iizakayas in Japan, so we thought we'd write a little bit about them.
By the way, Peter's music is available on reverbnation.com/svenpete. Check it out!
Okay, back to theme iizakayas. Wait, what's an iizakaya, you ask? Peter, can you help us out on this one?
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Visit our main page to book a viewing of one of our rooms.
http://www.share-style.jp/eg/

This is one of the cheaper guest houses. Rasin V. However, currently there are only Japanese tenants living there.…
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No Key Money Fee! Fully Furnished
Tokyo Guest House, Share Style Tokyo Room Share
(Make a reservation to see one of the rooms on the main page today)
http://www.share-style.jp/eg/
Share Style guest houses are joint ownership style, allowing for high-value living at low cost. Rooms are private, with the living room and kitchen as shared facililties. Share Style's houses are equipped with basic furniture and appliances, and do no…
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Added by P Alb on July 16, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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I climbed Japan's highest mountain "Mt.Fuji" with shorts, boots, a t-shirt,
a bottle of water and a Mars Bar. What was I thinking at first - but at the
end it was no problem mostly because i became numb from the cold -
until the sun rose early in the morning. We took the train to the mountain.
It was awesome and a peaceful journey. Mount Fuji (Fujisan) is 3776
meters - Japan's highest mountain. We started at 6:30 pm from the fifth
station and arrived at the top at 1:00 am an elevation of 3,776 m…
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Akio Morita and Shintaro Ishihara in
The Japan That Can Say No and the accompanying trends of the subsequent decade and a half admirably began to put an end to the cycle of Japan imitating the West. However, now Japan needs the next step, and that is the topic of this essay.
Recently, we see increasing world awareness of Japanese efforts to improve global political clout. Japanese efforts to obtain a seat on the United Nations Security Council, mutterings about amending Article IX of the…
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Added by Steven McIntire Allen on July 13, 2008 at 10:34pm —
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One thing I wish I had done when I first came to Japan on the JET program in Ishinomaki, Miyagi in 1993, was have people address me by my family name if I address them by their family name. In the vast majority of situations, this is not a problem, but on occasion I have noticed that some Japanese address foreigners by their personal names either because the Japanese individual does not accord foreigners the same respect as Japanese, or because they are trying to belittle the foreigner. Living i…
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I saw this movie over the Weekend. It's not the highest quality movie, but interesting if you are into Zen. Here is a link.
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A little known privilege of foreigners in Japan, at least little known among Westerners, is the right we have to register a legal alias (通称名/tsushomei). Many Japanese use an alias, for instance women use their former names in the workplace, and Japanese refer to this as a 通称名, but ONLY foreigners can actually LEGALLY register an alias.
Koreans and Chinese frequently do this to accommodate their native language characters which are not included in the Japanese ideograph list approved by the Japa…
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