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A photo documentary of Japanese hotsprings, food, and sake from all over Japan
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Christmas Cakes & Cougars
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I have a devil who lives in North or South Carolina somewhere who once commented that his girlfriend at the time, now wife, didn't like to take it in the face. OK. So fair enough. I don't blame her for not wanting his spunkiness all over her caked up face, then again, what's wrong with a little spunkiness'? It all started in class one day over a discussion about Tiger Woods' infidelity. A certain news article mentioned that day of a term referring to women...
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Figure Skaters Who Look Like Monsters (PHOTOS)
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Obasaan English Club
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A few times a month I teach an English for Obasaans club around my area. I get the greatest amount of enjoyment teaching these women, they are so fun. Once a month we have a pot luck and they each bring their own homemade specialties. This week was natural foods week, and boy, did they bring some very unique dishes. The way it works is that I eat while they explain to me how they made their own dishes in English. Most of them just sit there...
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Gikyo
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It's time for me to shift from winter mode to spring mode. I know it's a bit late for that. It's also time for me to introduce yet another sake, a food item, and a lovely Jukujo too. Leading into spring mode I want my readers to understand from my own perspective what I consider the most beautiful elements in Japan, but let me not get ahead of myself either, let me take this post one step at a time. First of all, Japan without Shinto, the indigenous religion of this country,...
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Sami
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Got an e-mail the other night from a stranger named Sami' It's not that unusual for me to receive spam mail, but this one was just a tad bit different; it was in Japanese and it was an invitation to meet somewhere, but at a specific location around Kanagawa. This also may explain why I kept receiving blocked caller calls on my cell all day last week too, I think. I never answer calls with no number displayed. So I had to backtrack...
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This is called a ???? ?tokigentei)or, in other words, winter time reserve, ?????shoumikigen) expiry 30 day nigori Junmai from Akita prefecture. The brewery is called Shirataki. Sake meter value is at 65%. Nihonshu-do, which is the sake's density to water is -13. Most ordinary sake would be around plus 3 to 5,which would indicate a degree of dryness whereas minus would indicate sweetness. Some sake are plus 8( very dry), or like in the case of this featured sake minus 13! ...
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The Mind of McAlpine: Is Gary Coleman Out of Control'
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From My Train Window
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I love riding the Tokaido Line. ?Tokaido' literally means East Sea Route in Japanese and it's one of the oldest and most frequently used routes in Japan, which also include a vast network of rail lines , too. These photos below were taken from the train window. Via Takasaki Station, I rode the Tokaido line up a winding stretch of track through sparsely populated pockets of small rural towns dotted along the outer fringes of nowhere. Places...
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The Soul of Japan: Winter Wonderland: Onsen
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King Crab Part III:??
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All good things shouldn't be enjoyed just once. They should be enjoyed as often as possible, like another shipment of king crab legs I ordered last week, 3kg! And these were not just your ordinary king crab legs, these are called in Japanese ?? or Gokubuto which is a generic term used to describe something extra thick, especially in the legs of an object or thing. And so I ordered, all 11,000 yen worth through my favorite online shop Rakuten. Leggggzzzzz'. ...
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