One of the interesting things about the difference between Japan and the West is how toilets work in this country. While Japan does of course have urinals and `western` toilets, it also has the `japanese-style` toilets… that and their urinals are slightly different. Allow me to explain.
In North America, we have the ubiquitious `urinal mint`, [...]

I noticed that a lot of the people who read this blog are from Japan… I wonder if you guys are just Googling/Yahoo-Japaning my blog and are leaving when you realize it’s in English… Well if you have any thoughts on my experiences in Japan, don’t hesitate to speak up! With that in mind, I’ll [...]

So today I found a store that was selling the Uta~Kata set that I worked so hard to get yesterday… they were selling it for 800 yen, and to think I wasted 1800 yen to just get 3/4 of the set (I bought the last remaining one in the set for 300 yen today). I [...]