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JLPT N2 study materials (part 2) 22 May 2013 | 07:29 pm
It's rather a long time since I wrote JLPT N2 study materials (part 1) (see also N3 study materials), but since then I have accumulated even more textbooks; I should be able to open my own Japanese la...
Persistance 8 Dec 2012 | 12:06 pm
Haha... found this entry in my Yokohama diary: Had a ridiculous 10-minute exchange with some Japanese guy at my door tonight. It seems like when people come to the door here, they don't just give a ...
JLPT N2 study materials (part 1) 30 Oct 2012 | 02:59 pm
Ooh, I just got my JLPT N2 test voucher in the mail... the big test is coming up in just over a month. Am I ready for it? No! In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll fail. That said, I have amassed quite a coll...
Akage no An (Anne of Green Gables) 24 Oct 2012 | 11:11 am
While I was in Japan I got to see my first Japanese musical, Anne of Green Gables (in Japanese, 'Akage no An' - literally, 'red-haired Anne'). This was being put on by the Shiki Theatre Company - see ...
Meguro Parasitological Museum 15 Oct 2012 | 05:13 pm
The Meguro Parasitological Museum is about a 10-minute walk from Meguro station, in Tokyo. This small museum, as the name suggests, is a museum about parasites, with lots of samples in jars, posters o...
Maid cafe 12 Oct 2012 | 09:33 am
Ah, the maid cafe - a uniquely Japanese innovation (I hope) and a particularly famous feature of Akihabara, the geek mecca. The idea is that you pay a little extra to be waited on by cute girls dresse...
A Day In: Shirokanedai 8 Oct 2012 | 05:57 pm
The weather was lovely; it was too nice a day to just go shopping. Where could I go to find a nice spot of nature - preferably somewhere new and not too far away? I betook myself to Tokyo - specifica...
Tokyo Sky Tree 5 Oct 2012 | 11:44 am
One of the big events of this year was the opening of Tokyo Sky Tree, now the tallest building in Japan (and apparently the second-tallest building in the world, at the time of writing this). This tow...
Movie: Rurouni Kenshin (live action version) 30 Sep 2012 | 05:23 pm
I went to see the Rurouni Kenshin live-action movie yesterday. I couldn't understand much of the conversation in it, to be honest, but I know the original story very well, so I think I was able to und...
Typhoon 30 Sep 2012 | 04:06 pm
As I no longer live in Japan, I don't update this blog much any more, except when I happen to be in Japan on holiday. I'm here in Kawasaki at the moment, holed up in my hotel room during a typhoon, so...
