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Friday the 13th and superstitions from Japan, thoughts on how to approach learning, and my take on Heroes and Japanese actors

Hello and happy Friday the 13th, often considered to be a day of good luck in Japan, since many festivals begin on the 13th of the month. Superstitions are often a big part of life in Japan, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to share some of them with you. First, never cut your fingernails at night,...

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Souten no Ken Shining Tears Cross Wind

7:10am	J-List Side Blog On reverse culture shock, phases kids go through in Japan, and all about Japanese TV
	It's always fun being back in the U.S., because I get to experience that rarest of sensations, reverse culture shock, when things I see in my home country surprise me because of my years spent in Japan. Today I caught a radio ad for AM/PM Mini Mart whose message was essentially that we should all live...

8:18am

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More on the language of men and women, the Jerusalem of Otakuism, and all about sex and nudity in Japan (cool!)

There are subtle nuances in how we use language, and the speech we choose to use says something about all of us. In English, men and women speak differently in subtle ways, choosing varying words or inflections or coloring their speech differently (e.g. cursing, using feminine-sounding intonation, using...

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Shining Tears Cross Wind

5:54am

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The lack of patriotic songs in Japan, what happened in our prefecture during WWII, and a useful word for Atari fans

The Fourth of July celebration was a lot of fun, a rare treat for me since Anime Expo usually falls across the holiday. I decided to take J-List's manga and photobook-meister Yasu (who was heading home the next day) to see the fireworks over San Diego Harbor, so we headed for the beautiful Coronado Bay...

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Binchou-tan

4:02am	J-List Side Blog Being sick in Japan and America, the concept of "political correctness" in Japanese, and all about Japan's famous alcoholic drink, sake
	Japan is a fun place -- the people are nice, the sights are beautiful, and you get to have wacky "gaijin experiences" like seeing a sign on a train that says "Beware of Perverts" or "It Is Forbidden To Urinate Here" on a dark street. But no matter how much I like the place, getting sick in Japan just...

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