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1 May 2021 1 minute read 1 comment RoaringTiger
There are 3 “gosanke”(御三家) in Japan you have probably heard about a lot. These are Yoshinoya, Sukiya and Matsuya, famous Japanese fast food chains. ⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Gosanke” means a combination of three key words: 有力(influential) , 有名(famous), 人気(popul...
29 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RoaringTiger
It has been believed that Gods dwell on mountains from ancient times, therefore Japanese used to climb mountains to pray for the health of family members. This is called mountain worship and many people climb high mountains to pray to Gods. Statues...
29 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment RoaringTiger
It's said the temple is the place of origin of the famous Japanese beckoning cat "maneki neko" that many of us got used to seeing in front of Japanese shops. There is a belief that "maneki neko" brings in customers and money. There are many lege...
28 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tokyobitcoiner
Cryptocurrency seems to have an obsession with Japan and Japanese words. It begins of course with 'Satoshi Nakamoto'; although I doubt he is Japanese and of course may be a group rather than one person, apparently he is "not Dorian". [Thanks BitXmi...
7 Apr 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Kovichni
Scuffles broke out in the Upper House during the approval of the highly controversial military doctrine which allows Japan, for the first time since WW2, to conduct and locate military warfare/personnel outside her own borders.But why now, why so muc...
20 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Following a virtual meeting between the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympic Committee, the Japanese government, the Tokyo government, and local organizers, it has been announced that spectators from abroad will not be permit...
2 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Conversation Gaming
Skynet had determined that it could never defeat the humans, so it decided to have humans defeat the humans and it went back in time as far as it had the energy to do so. It created a Japanese T-800 and sent it back to the year 1629. Despit...
13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At 23:08 local time, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, at a depth of about 50.3 kilometers (About 31 miles), leaving at least 50 injured and about a million homes without power. Aftershocks as strong as magnitude 5....
26 Jan 2021 2 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
Some time in October of '86, I went to the Japanese island of Kyushu. A brigade-size element had been deployed there for joint training with the JGSDF (Japanese Ground Self Defense Force). I learned a few things I'd never thought about before: Orio...
20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 6 comments author_nan
The Japanese Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) has approved gaming focused cryptocurrency Enjin (ENJ) for listing on the Coincheck exchange, the Enjin team announced in a blog post on Jan. 19. The approval makes Enjin the first regulated...
