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Game review: Abe-pyon is a fun, free, no-nonsense smartphone game; political propaganda at its best 10 Jul 2013 | 06:51 pm
A couple weeks ago the Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party released Abe-pyon (Abe Jump; iOS link / Android), its first official smartphone game. The release was timed ahead of the upcoming Upper ...
What would doubling the JET program look like? 3 May 2013 | 09:25 am
Recent news reports suggest that the LDP is planning to propose doubling the JET Program in three years and placing JET language assistants in all elementary, middle, and high schools within a decade....
“Unbuttoning the uniform” 25 Mar 2013 | 06:44 am
Over the years, this blog has had so many posts on the wretched “kabuki play” cliche that we gave them their own category, but we never mentioned a related pet peeve cliche of mine: “opening the kimon...
Corner store 24 Mar 2013 | 10:16 pm
Waiting for a breakfast sandwich at the bodega. “I can’t get a bag?” asks a woman angrily, as she pays for her can of soda. Thin, probably in her forties, but looking unkempt and sickly enough that it...
Japanese people can’t speak English because they live among tainted, Japan-savvy foreigners 14 Mar 2013 | 12:56 pm
It seems to me that a major factor behind Japan’s vaunted problems with the English language could have to do with the learning environment. Specifically, some Japanese people are not sufficiently aw...
Japanese people can’t speak English because they live among tainted, Japan-savvy foreigners 14 Mar 2013 | 12:56 pm
It seems to me that a major factor behind Japan’s vaunted problems with the English language could have to do with the learning environment. Specifically, some Japanese people are not sufficiently awa...
Japanese people can’t speak English because they live among tainted, Japan-savvy foreigners 14 Mar 2013 | 12:56 pm
It seems to me that a major factor behind Japan’s vaunted problems with the English language could have to do with the learning environment. Specifically, some Japanese people are not sufficiently awa...
Adamu will be on Livestream helping break down the election this Sunday starting at 8pm!! 11 Dec 2012 | 03:48 pm
Two major elections are coming up in Japan this Sunday—a general election to choose members of the Diet’s lower house, and a race for the Tokyo governorship. The chances of a change in government are ...
Adamu will be on Livestream helping break down the election this Sunday starting at 8pm!! 11 Dec 2012 | 03:48 pm
Two major elections are coming up in Japan this Sunday—a general election to choose members of the Diet’s lower house, and a race for the Tokyo governorship. The chances of a change in government are ...
Adamu will be on Livestream helping break down the election this Sunday starting at 8pm!! 11 Dec 2012 | 03:48 pm
Two major elections are coming up in Japan this Sunday—a general election to choose members of the Diet’s lower house, and a race for the Tokyo governorship. The chances of a change in government are ...
