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Let’s face it folks, most of us JETs have a lot of two very precious things on our hands: time and money. With this in mind, the kind folk of Oita JETs have devised an ingenious plan to help alleviate some of the guilt that we all feel due to that excess.
In 2004, a local […]
Are you a Lawson-lover, a Family Mart-fan or an AM/PM-addict?
In surveys of repatriated workers, one thing often tops the list of things which will be most missed about Japan; convenience stores, or “combini” as they are so cutely abridged. In a country where snack bars are the last place you’d go to get a snack, […]
Unarguably the most famous and recognized piece of Japanese literature is The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu. Lady Murasaki, a court lady in the service of the Empress Akiko, wrote this monumental work around the year 1010. That makes the book, hailed as the ‘first great novel ever written,’ roughly 1,000 years […]
While many westerns would be enjoying a traditional Christmas of turkey dinners, snowmen, Santa and Christmas carols, many JETs decide to forgo these pleasures and head instead for the heat of Thailand. Thoughts of escaping a Japan of rapidly declining temperatures and minimal indoor heating have appealed to many, ever since the onset of winter. […]