So my feet really hurt from getting lost again yesterday and I’m somewhat bored, so I bring you another episode of Mike Explains Japan, tentatively subtitled Strangeness in Shortville.
My hair is getting a bit shaggy. Almost two months since I got a haircut, and many of you already know how fast it grows. One [...]

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What does Monday mean? You guessed it! Meetings! It seems like every Monday we have to meet with someone. And it’s the only day I really get to sleep in too. Not that this meeting was especially early, but I did have to head in early to print some stuff out and… you guess [...]

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A small update, a few things about the site. First off, I’m running a spam blacklist. This stops, on average, about 20 pieces of comment spam per day. What this means for you, especially those of you behind proxies (corporate and .edu people, mostly), is that many of your comments are seen as spam [...]

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Let’s see, where did I leave off? Heading to the afterparty, it seems. That… was, to put it lightly, insane. It was me, Mel, Simon, Jon and his music club, about 40 Japanese people. They were already acting crazy when we met in the club building. Of course, they had to remark on my [...]

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This has been a rather big week. Tuesday was Megan’s birthday, Saturday was the Yosakoi Soran festival, today was the university festival.
First, Tuesday. ‘Twas fun. We ended up cooking out that night, then headed off to karaoke. There were 14 of us in total, including one of our teachers. Did I ever mention that [...]

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So I’ve been a bit busy these last few days, but some people (you know who you are) just can’t wait, so here’s the first in what will most likely be a series as I get them. As I said before, feel free to send any questions my way. I’ll get to them eventually. [...]

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Time is flying. Have I really been here for a month already? It doesn’t feel like it, and yet I have. It really needs to slow down, I’m enjoying myself too much for the time to go quickly.
Tuesday is always a fun day. Matsui-sensei’s class, followed by Karate. That night several of us went [...]

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