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Nobody sleeps like the Japanese do
Apparently there is a Facebook group to post photos of people sleeping in crazy or uncomfortable looking positions in Japan… This is actually a really good idea. The group is called simply, “Nobody sleeps like the Japanese do.”
Here are a few pictures which I have taken recently, and another which was recently posted on JapanToday.
Why [...]
Pendre shorts - fundoshi loincloth for women - the next trend in Japan?
A friend of mine just forwarded this post on JapanProbe about women’s fundoshi. My quickest description of a fundoshi would be traditional Japanese g-string loincloth underwear for men. According to Wikipedia:
Before World War II the fundoshi was the main form of underwear for Japanese adult males; however it went out of use quickly after the [...]
“Akihabara girls’ dorm” - Let’s play in our pajamas!
I went to Akihabara last month to help my friend buy a terabyte drive (only 17,500 yen now!) and external case (4500 yen for a nice one), where I was of course deluged with cute girls in costumes handing out flyers to come to their stores. Here’s the first flyer that I received, along with [...]
Starting work in Japan as a lowly new graduate - did someone say COBOL?
From Wikipedia’s COBOL entry:
Critics have argued that COBOL’s syntax serves mainly to increase the size of programs, at the expense of developing the thinking process needed for software development. In his letter to an editor in 1975 titled “How do we tell truths that might hurt?”, computer scientist and Turing Award [...]