Don't bring a knife to any fight...
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From The CJGuide:
Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata
Rice with rotting beans makes for a really lousy
breakfast...
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From The CJGuide:
An Indiana Hoosier in Lord Tsugaru's
Court by Todd Jay Leonard
Sometime during the Reagan Administration...
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Kamakura by Andy Barker
There's a photo of hollyhock in front of a moving
train.
It's the kind of photograph people keep in a shoe
box along with blurry shots of lights and accidental photos of the
ground.
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From The CJGuide:
Kanji Flashcards--White Rabbit Press
There was lots of swearing, crumbled cards and
endless rants about why a single nation needs four alphabets involved.
Japanese Kanji Flashcards from White Rabbit Press
are among the best Japanese study materials available on the market.
Learn more about it here.
Loose Ends Issue
Second Impressions Are A Bitch
Shinzo Abe’s tenure as Prime Minister
began with some surprising successes.
Less than a month later things began to fall
apart.
Learn more about it here.
Ministry of Bungled Affairs
Of all Prime Minister Abe’s
embarrassing problems, the Agriculture Ministry has been a particular
embarrassment.
Learn more about it here.
The Best Education Money Can Got
80,000 students at 461 high schools in 46 of
Japan’s 47 prefectures were not eligible to graduate.
Learn more about it here.
Show Me It's All About The Money
Workers in the prefectural office of Gunma
Prefecture have been systematically embezzling tax money for the last
12 years.
They've managed to steal over 14 million dollars.
Learn more about it here.
Abe Rising
Shinzo Abe was recently elected as the president
of the Liberal Democratic Party and will soon be sworn in as Japan's
next Prime Minister.
Learn more about it here.
Ends and Odds
Horie's lawyers claim that not only did he not
know what was going on, but that what was going on was not illegal.
It seems Murakami and Horie were playing golf one
day and Horie let slip he intended to takeover NBS.
Rumor has it that 1.3 million doesn't go as far
as it used to
One can only hear "Amazing Grace" so many times
without going insane.
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From The CJGuide:
My Mother Is A Tractor
Shunning thousand-mile walks, the martial arts,
zen and forays into art and culture in favor of beer, day-trips and
karaoke, Nicholas Klar's My Mother is a Tractor
offers a disturbingly realistic look at life as an Assistant Language
Teacher in Japan.
The book's message, or warning, is simple: This
is life in Japan. Enter at your own risk. Enjoy your stay.
Learn more about it
here.
He so buried himself in his books that he spent the nights reading from
twilight till daybreak and the days from dawn till dark; and so from
little sleep and much reading, his brain dried up and he lost his wits.