The new show coming out called I Survived a Japanese Game show features a former Hooters girl by the name of Megan Cooper. She is also known for dating Mario Lopez of Dancing with The Stars fame. I Survived A Japanese Game Show features American contestants that don't know they are heading to Japan to compete in a game show

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Japan is once again dealing with an act of mass violence. This time Tomohiro Kato injured people with his truck and by then started stabbing anyone he could reach on the Tokyo street. Once something that was not even remotely considered possible for the Japanese is now becoming far too common. Random acts of violence are jus

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You can use Google to help you learn a foreign language. Google Images can help you get a visual picture of an unknown word. Just plug in the unfamiliar word and you'll get thousands of pictures showing you exactly what it is!

Plain old Google works too. If you don't know a word, plug it into google and you'll get millions of hits wi

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When we set a goal to lose weight, especially when we don't want to lose to our fat brother in the TwoFatBrothers.com 2008 Weight Loss Challenge, dieting is usually part of it. But what do you do when you are confronted with a situation where it would be impolite to refuse food that breaks your diet? This happened to me at my in-laws this

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A wonderfully cute "mini-massagers" from Sanrio Japan. The Hello Kitty massager features random knobbly bits for extra shoulder massaging goodness. And in a variety of colors! Yay...

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I’m sure most of you guys eat seafood once in a while and I’m sure that some of you even love it. Main dishes for seafood comes from trouts, catfishes, and salmon to raw seafood in sushi. What if eating seafood results in a high chance of killing you? No, I don’t mean having high cholesterol, but I do mean literally killing you. From the writ

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Want to know the secret to cooking strong meats like lamb? Soak it in milk. A NihonHacks reader writes in with an easy recipe that you can prepare in just a few minutes. I tried it out tonight and the results were great!

Lamb is sold at most J

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How much control should we have on our recorded history? Absolute? Partial? None?
Once something comes out of our mouth, should we have the option of erasing it from history? When we post something on the internet with no limits on who can see it,

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Language teachers in Japan have been watching the decline of Nova for several months, and many have jumped ship as soon as another company offered a position. The gradual collapse of this language school leaves thousands of people without work.

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Reading comics is a good way to learn language. Since every word is dialog, you can use what you read in daily conversation without having to worry about whether or not you are mistakenly using formal literary language or not. Pictures are great for context clues and cool onomatopoeia words are everywhere. In this article, I take a look at

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The Nintendo DS is a great tool for learning the Japanese language. It has a variety of games that can help you learn kanji (Chinese characters). This is a short review of one such game that my wife bought for me for my birthday last week. It has over 47,000 questions that cover all 12 levels of the Kanji Profiency Exam (Kanken).

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With only one week to go before Japan’s new entry procedures go into effect, foreigners are becoming even more vocal about the coming changes. I had written about this subject a few months ago, but figured it was time to put this question into better context and raise some of my own concerns regarding Japan’s ‘Friendly Factor’.

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Japanese toy giant Tomy co LTD has come up with an innovative way to encourage their aging population to save.

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Here is an oveview of Japanese Professional baseball and some key dates for the 2008 season. There are twelve professional baseball teams in Japan and 62 foreign players on the rosters this year. In this post you will find a translated link to all twelve team sites, some history about how baseball came to Japan, a link to

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How important is your daily coffee? Can you go without? Do you develop headaches, become irritable, or are you just downright unable to function in the slightest capacity? For many of us, coffee is an integral part of our day and, because of this, we often develop very exacting standards for this currently under-priced commodit

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Japan loves poop like Germany loves the Hoff. In every form, be it children’s toys or flavoring and scent. Let’s not judge them for their affection to poop, I mean, a healthy digestive system is essential for a healthy body and mind, right? Regular poop will get all the toxins out, so really we should look up to them for promoting it so much

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For the first time in 30 years, the laws governing bicycle operation in Japan are changing. The National Police Agency is planning a full-scale revision to the out-dated rules and will crack down on unsafe conduct. Proposed revisions include outright banning the use of headphones, cell phones, reaching for cell phones and other mobile devices.

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Ahhh, Groping ! When i first came to Japan in 2002 i noticed signs on the subways depicting 3 things … all illustrated by cartoon; no fighting, no setting the seats on fire and no putting your hand up a school girls dress. Needless to say each pictu

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