Japanese Poop Museum? Yes. You heard right. Where else but Japan would you find a museum exhibit devoted to poop? Well, I live here, so I grabbed my camera and headed over to the Himeji Museum of Literature to explore the world of animal feces and childrens' excretory literature. It's even weirder than it sounds. Don't

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Do you want to learn Swedish? Know someone who does? Here are a couple great resources for students of the Swedish language. Listen to Swedish radio online, but not just any radio - radio in easy Swedish. Targeted at non-native speakers. Great for developing listening comprehension skills. These Swedish news programs have

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Having big feet in Japan can be a big problem if you need new shoes! My shoe size is 30cm and stores in Japan just don't stock shoes that big. Oh no, I need new shoes, what do I do? This article shows you how to get the shoes you want, in the style you want and in the size you need. Cutting your toes off is not a solution!

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What do Swedish Pancakes, Chocolate Apple Cake, a double-scoop waffle cone from Baskin Robbins and six enormous tacos have in common? They are all things I ate this week, despite being on a diet in competition with my brother. Official weigh-ins are tomorrow and I am afraid of what the scale will say. I have a lead over Fat

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FatBrother Kenny explains why losing too much weight too fast can be a bad thing.  He talks about how your body stores fat, why it burns muscle instead of fat when it detects rapid weight loss, why you don't want to burn away that muscle, and how the whole ordeal leaves you wide open to being sodomized by a llama.  T

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Tired of walking behind slow people? Do you wish there was a way to make your way through a crowded street without knocking people on their ass? There is! Buy a bicycle bell and carry it with you. People will hear it and get out of the way thinking you are on a bicycle. This works even in places where a bicycle could never

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In Japan the New Year is a time for great deals. Stores put leftover merchandise from last year into fukubukuro or lucky bags and sell them for cheap. You can't see what's inside, but the contents are always worth waaaay more than what you pay for them. Last year my wife bought two bags for 10,000 yen each (about $100 each) and got 80,000

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A look at Chapter 5 of the Japanese version of the Fight Club DVD. I discuss differences between the English and Japanese versions of the movie and other interesting topics.

Topics include:

Birth in Japan
Japanese Giants
What is a "Red Stranger"?
Why are babies called "little red ones" in Japanese?

Jack visits the testicular

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If you go into a Japanese grocery store and head straight to the refrigerated drink aisle to get your tea, you are wasting money! All stores have a separate boxed tea aisle where you can get a much better deal on your green tea. Mugi cha is a popular tea that is served in offices Japan-wide and it is also the cheapest stuff you can find. Re

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Some NihonHacks readers wrote in with some more tips for finding a Christmas tree in Japan. If you want a real tree, not one of those crappy fake artificial trees that you see in all the stores here in Japan, read on. Get a tree from a military base. Get a tree from the forest. Get a free tree from Ikea. Get a tree from Costco. And don'

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Christmas time is here! We are all getting ready for the big day, but what do you do about getting a Christmas tree in Japan? If you are in the market for an artificial tree, you will find one quite easily, but for a real tree you may have to do some digging. If you have a ton of presents, but nothing to put them under, this article can he

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A look at Chapter 4 of the Japanese version of the Fight Club DVD.

Topics include:

Swedish furniture.
Katakana loanwords are hard to hear.
Demanding medicine from your doctor in Japanese.

Jack orders some Swedish furniture from his IKEA catalogue, which is a really difficuly scene due to all the loan words and technical furniture

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