Ionushi aka Aurelio Asiain was already known to me because of his interesting blog (in Spanish) in which he mainly writes on Japanese literature. He often illustrates his posts with beautiful photo’s but until today I did not realize he is also a...
Topics: Japan, photo, Photography, Web

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As an experiment I have started two new blogs on Blogger/Blogspot:Japanese Food Dictionary – short posts about Japanese food ingredients, dishes, various types of cuisine etc. I have been writing about Japanese food in Japan Navigator, too, but...
Topics: Food, Web, Writing

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Large figures in Japan are difficult as you do not count in units of thousand, but rather in units of ten thousand (with different names for those units the higher you get):1 = ichi (一、one)10 = ju (十、ten)100 = hyaku (百、one hundred)1,000 =...
Topics: Culture, Economy, Japan

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Recently I bought a “map book” of Japan that also includes all sorts of interesting statistics and other data. One of them compares the GDP of Japanese prefectures (note we are not talking about tax income or prefectural budgets here, but...
Topics: Business, Japan, Society, Writing

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The carbonated soft drink Ramune (from “Lemonade”) was first brought market in Kobe by Alexander Cameron Sim (1840-1900), a Scottish pharmacist who also founded the Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club. Although Ramune rather tastes like an...
Topics: Food, Kobe

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