silly wanderer
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It's not the first business in Japan to offer a flexible approach to work. Microsoft and others have experimented with four-day workweeks. One t-shirt company lets workers set their own hours - a model that's brought it much success.
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Japanese Company Lets Workers Set Hours, Profits Soar - Unseen Japan
A Japanese t-shirt company and its unusual CEO are doing business differently - and the employees seem to dig it.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It's not the first business in Japan to offer a flexible approach to work. Microsoft and others have experimented with four-day workweeks. One t-shirt company lets workers set their own hours - a model that's brought it much success.
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There have been several high-profile cases in Japan recently where courts have overturned asylum denials. E.g., a court in Osaka approved a gay North African man's request after immigration denied it.
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Osaka Court Again Overturns Asylum Denial for LGBTQ Refugee - Unseen Japan
Is Japan warming up to refugees? An Osaka court has overturned a denial of a gay man's request for asylum - the second time it's done so.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
There have been several high-profile cases in Japan recently where courts have overturned asylum denials. E.g., a court in Osaka approved a gay North African man's request after immigration denied it.
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I just have to trust the process. Spring will come, no matter what.
April 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I just have to trust the process. Spring will come, no matter what.
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Looking for an interesting, unique trip to Japan? Well, don't go here! There are some spots in the country where visitors can't tread. Learn about the country's kinsokuchi and what makes them off-limits to...well, most everybody.
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Kinsokuchi: Why You Can't Enter Japan's Forbidden Places - Unseen Japan
Looking for a great spot to go on your Japan vacation? Well, don't go to any of THESE places unless you wanna be boiled alive or cursed.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Looking for an interesting, unique trip to Japan? Well, don't go here! There are some spots in the country where visitors can't tread. Learn about the country's kinsokuchi and what makes them off-limits to...well, most everybody.
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Six years after making headlines for coming out as a douchebag for living in Japan while refusing to learn Japanese so as not to puncture its “mystery,” author Pico Iyer is doubling down, calling Japanese sentences “mongrel” in an article The NY Times probably paid him good money to write.
April 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Six years after making headlines for coming out as a douchebag for living in Japan while refusing to learn Japanese so as not to puncture its “mystery,” author Pico Iyer is doubling down, calling Japanese sentences “mongrel” in an article The NY Times probably paid him good money to write.
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Here’s our past write-up on Iyer and his steadfast refusal to engage with the culture he had lived in at that point for 25 years.
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Why Some Westerners in Japan Never Learn Japanese - Unseen Japan
How a casual tweet promoting an author's new book about Japan blew up into a discussion of Western privilege and Orientalism.
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April 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Here’s our past write-up on Iyer and his steadfast refusal to engage with the culture he had lived in at that point for 25 years.
unseen-japan.com/speaking-our...
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The ability of the Japan community to bond over dunking on a new moronic Pico Iyer piece proves to me that the old Twitter has truly been reborn on Bluesky.
Many Cultures Borrow. Japan Transforms. Well, Not Me. After All these Years, I'm Still the Self-Satisfied Dud Mansplaining the Country to Everyone Even Though I Neither Speak Nor Read Japanese. By Pico Iyer
Many Cultures Borrow. Japan Transforms.
Throughout its history, the country has taken imports and changed them into something else entirely.
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April 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The ability of the Japan community to bond over dunking on a new moronic Pico Iyer piece proves to me that the old Twitter has truly been reborn on Bluesky.
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"Eurofascism" is a term that is increasingly mentioned not just by the Russian propaganda but also by the official Kremlin
If earlier Russian propaganda lied that "the war with Russia was started&waged by the U.S.through Ukraine,"now,the "instigators of the war"are the EU led by Great Britain⤵️
If earlier Russian propaganda lied that "the war with Russia was started&waged by the U.S.through Ukraine,"now,the "instigators of the war"are the EU led by Great Britain⤵️
April 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"Eurofascism" is a term that is increasingly mentioned not just by the Russian propaganda but also by the official Kremlin
If earlier Russian propaganda lied that "the war with Russia was started&waged by the U.S.through Ukraine,"now,the "instigators of the war"are the EU led by Great Britain⤵️
If earlier Russian propaganda lied that "the war with Russia was started&waged by the U.S.through Ukraine,"now,the "instigators of the war"are the EU led by Great Britain⤵️
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The web address covid.gov no longer features information on vaccines and testing. Now, it takes you to a site that says COVID-19 leaked out of a lab in China, disparages Dr. Anthony Fauci, and accuses the Biden administration of spreading “misinformation.” www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rewrit...
Trump Rewrites History With Deranged COVID.Gov Makeover
The showy website now takes direct aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and others.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The web address covid.gov no longer features information on vaccines and testing. Now, it takes you to a site that says COVID-19 leaked out of a lab in China, disparages Dr. Anthony Fauci, and accuses the Biden administration of spreading “misinformation.” www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rewrit...
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Vietnam has been one of the most pro-US countries in the world, in part because of concern about China. Nevertheless, Trump slapped Vietnam with a 46% tariff, falsely calling it “reciprocal.”
This week, Vietnam signed cooperation agreements with China, including on production and supply chains.
This week, Vietnam signed cooperation agreements with China, including on production and supply chains.
Opinion | How Trump threw away America's global trade leadership
International economic integration will continue, with or without the U.S. — and China will benefit most.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Vietnam has been one of the most pro-US countries in the world, in part because of concern about China. Nevertheless, Trump slapped Vietnam with a 46% tariff, falsely calling it “reciprocal.”
This week, Vietnam signed cooperation agreements with China, including on production and supply chains.
This week, Vietnam signed cooperation agreements with China, including on production and supply chains.
Working here only for a couple weeks and there's a regular customer said this lady is new but her coffee is very good🥺🥺
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Working here only for a couple weeks and there's a regular customer said this lady is new but her coffee is very good🥺🥺
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I never took advantage of tax-free shopping in Japan and know few people who do. I think while some people might grumble, eliminating it would do nothing to dent tourism. It'd also be a huge political win domestically. I don't see a downside.
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Will Japan Eliminate Tax-Free Sales to Tourists Completely? - Unseen Japan
A growing chorus of voices across the political spectrum says the country should collect the money to improve the lives of its citizens.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I never took advantage of tax-free shopping in Japan and know few people who do. I think while some people might grumble, eliminating it would do nothing to dent tourism. It'd also be a huge political win domestically. I don't see a downside.
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Japan's a relatively safe place to travel. But disasters happen - and navigating them when you don't know the local language can be harrowing. Popular navigation app NAVITIME hopes to bridge that gap with a new Safety feature in its multilingual app for travelers.
Japan Travel App Adds New Safety Features for Tourists - Unseen Japan
NAVITIME's latest revision to its app now includes a Safety feature with emergency information in 13 different languages.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Japan's a relatively safe place to travel. But disasters happen - and navigating them when you don't know the local language can be harrowing. Popular navigation app NAVITIME hopes to bridge that gap with a new Safety feature in its multilingual app for travelers.
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since I grew up during the Cold War it stuns me every time that the only Japanese politicians with actual, practical, positive proposals are the communists.
Japanese Communist Party (JCP) politician Yoshida Ayaka said recently that sanitary products should be free for women "like toilet paper." At least one prominent hard-right figure bashed her for the idea, leading to a pile-on - and a flood of automated death threats.
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Japanese Politician Gets Death Threats After Championing Free Sanitary Products - Unseen Japan
Some freaked out over Yoshida Ayaka's suggestion after conservative gadfly Sugita Mio bashed her on social media.
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April 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
since I grew up during the Cold War it stuns me every time that the only Japanese politicians with actual, practical, positive proposals are the communists.
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That was the contention of the expert I cited (Ako Mari). Her reasoning is simple: real estate in Japan is dominated by men who don't do chores. That's reflected in the size of the average Japanese kitchen *shrinking* since the 1980s.
Due to "sexism" is provocative but it is true that kitchens in Japan suck. Also it amazes me what old school housewives can produce on a single gas cooker and the corner of a narrow bench
Dishwasher Use Remains Low in Japan, Thanks To Sexism unseen-japan.com/dishwashers-...
Dishwasher Use Remains Low in Japan, Thanks To Sexism unseen-japan.com/dishwashers-...
Dishwasher Use Remains Low in Japan, Thanks To Sexism - Unseen Japan
Most kitchens in Japan remain too small to fit a dishwasher. Blame the male-dominated real estate industry, says one critic.
unseen-japan.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
That was the contention of the expert I cited (Ako Mari). Her reasoning is simple: real estate in Japan is dominated by men who don't do chores. That's reflected in the size of the average Japanese kitchen *shrinking* since the 1980s.
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The Japanese government is finally preparing to ditch its old romanization system for the Japanese language in favor of the de facto international standard – and the standard that, in reality, most of the government actually uses.
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Japan Prepares Official Hepburn Romanization Switch, Changing 70-Year Tradition - Unseen Japan
Japan will likely abandon its Kunrei-shiki romanization system that even most of its government doesn't use.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The Japanese government is finally preparing to ditch its old romanization system for the Japanese language in favor of the de facto international standard – and the standard that, in reality, most of the government actually uses.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Murdered 22yo livestreamer Sato Airi (Mogami Ai) was also apparently a single mother. Court records in suspect Takano Kenichi's lawsuit against her reveal she gave birth at 18 & in 2023 was in a shelter for single moms that also houses women fleeing violent partners.
#japan
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March 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Murdered 22yo livestreamer Sato Airi (Mogami Ai) was also apparently a single mother. Court records in suspect Takano Kenichi's lawsuit against her reveal she gave birth at 18 & in 2023 was in a shelter for single moms that also houses women fleeing violent partners.
#japan
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Japan wants its people to have more kids. The problem is that, if they did, women would end up doing most of the work. Women in Japan have long complained – and statistics have proven – that they do most of the chores in their homes on top of working full-time jobs.
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Survey: Couples in Japan Believe in Equality - But Women Do All The Housework - Unseen Japan
People in Kagoshima said that men and women should share housework equally. However, 88% say the reality differs from the ideal.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Japan wants its people to have more kids. The problem is that, if they did, women would end up doing most of the work. Women in Japan have long complained – and statistics have proven – that they do most of the chores in their homes on top of working full-time jobs.
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#Japan
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Manifesting ECM Puristika Coffee Machine✨
March 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Manifesting ECM Puristika Coffee Machine✨
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Ito Shiori's documentary BLACK BOX DIARIES made history as the first documentary nominated for an Oscar by a Japanese director. The journalist and activist say she has a new goal: getting her acclaimed film to screen in Japan, where it's still in release limbo.
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Ito Shiori's Next Goal: Releasing BLACK BOX DIARIES in Japan - Unseen Japan
It's the first documentary by a Japanese director ever nominated for an Oscar - but it still hasn't screened in Japan.
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March 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Ito Shiori's documentary BLACK BOX DIARIES made history as the first documentary nominated for an Oscar by a Japanese director. The journalist and activist say she has a new goal: getting her acclaimed film to screen in Japan, where it's still in release limbo.
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#Japan
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November 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM