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15 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Located in Yamaga in the northern part of Kumamoto Prefecture, Yachiyoza Theater showed its first kabuki performance in 1911 and has been exhibiting the many complexities of human nature ever since. But even if you are not keen on kabuki performa...
9 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Biologist25
Today, I’ll look at how Japan’s interest rate hikes could disrupt yen carry trades and affect global markets. Let’s start with a story. Imagine three people. Two of them are really rich. One has a ton of money that he lends out at very low interest r...
7 Jan 2025 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
Toys R Us in Japan sells not just toys, but also all kinds of products necessary for raising children. I think a trip there will enable travellers to gain insights on the lifestyle of the Japanese. But since you probably want to spend your time on...
30 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments kubo kazuya
In Japan, there is a next-generation seismic control system called "HiDAX-R," which uses seismic energy to control vibrations, meow. Currently, it can only store energy for damping purposes, but there is hope that it will be able to generate electri...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment cryotosensei
and most of them involve food. That’s why I decided to post my musing here. People often ask me if my wife has grown accustomed to living in Singapore. You would think that I would have my stock answer prepared by now, fully ready to be launched. B...
15 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Yatsushiro is known for being Japan’s top producer of tomatoes. That’s my daughter inspecting the quality of the tomatoes. However, not all Yatsushiro farmers are tomato farmers. Some of them grow lettuce. 🥬 I had the pleasure of watching them h...
12 Dec 2024 1 minute read 18 comments kubo kazuya
Since I cannot become someone else, I can only see the world from my own perspective. I don't even know if the scenery I see is real, but my emotions are certainly there. In fact, I can assert that nothing else can be definitively known. Therefore,...
11 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Foreigners assume that Japan is a homogeneous country, but the Japanese themselves recognise how different they are from their counterparts in the other 46 prefectures. I love watching this show to learn about the idiosyncratic dishes, customs and ha...
10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Navigating the rush hour in Tokyo yesterday made me realise I could teach my son a Chinese idiom: 人山人海. 人山人海 (rén shān rén hǎi) literally means ‘people mountain people sea’. Since the collocation ‘a sea of people’ exists in English, you ca...
6 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments kubo kazuya
The culture of "Read the air!" in Japan could be described as ultra high-context in English. Because Japan is an island nation with no escape, it becomes difficult to live if one is targeted by a group. To avoid being targeted, people become sensiti...
