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When looking at my latest e-bill from Softbank (my mobile phone provider), I saw a message about an impending change in the company's ...

I would have to say that one of my least favorite things about Japan is finishing up my business in a public rest room only to look do...

I seem to know a fair number of people who are allergic to gluten or are trying to minimize it in their diets. More and more in Japan, I s...

As our frequent readers may recall, not so long ago we covered opening up of the basic resident registry system to foreign residents . Un...

Revisiting a topic from the earlier days of AccessJ , one of the biggest money-saving tips we've found when getting settled in the cou...

Now that you have proposed, gotten the all important parental OK, and started your search for wedding venues you can start experiencing ...

A couple of years ago, I shared the Japanese-style resume forms (履歴書, rirekisho ) I've collected and used in my own job searches. As ...

So, I got one of these in the mail: You can click on it to enlarge. It's a post card you'll receive a couple months before yo...

If you live in the mountains of Japan like I do, you probably have seen your local service stations fill up with lines of cars waiting to ...

The well-populated song and dance group AKB48 has been a pop culture staple in Japan for the past four or five years. Their creator, Yasu...

I am sure that you don't need a blog post to tell you that drinking and driving is an all around terrible idea no matter what country ...

Just in case you have been taking a prolonged vacation in Okinawa or you are just generally not all that aware of your surroundings, we he...