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I want the ability to turn off romaji completely.

One way to do this, but before the mails arrive, is to use a service like IFTTT or Zapier that can both read your mails that match a search and write to Google Sheets. Then you can…

If you used the kanji names of the cities and towns it would be a lot more realistic. I’ve lived in Japan since 1988 and this just seems like a list of jibberish to me. Japanese ci…

I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s gr…

By the way, the first link on Google for “Japan developer salary” is https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/software-developer-salarie... which is based on an annual survey of developer…

That’s probably double what a developer in Japan would get for similar experience unless you are bringing some exceptional talent to the company.

It’s the last collision of the day but the previous collisions are pretty entertaining too.

Earthquakes are so common here in Japan that unless there is a death toll it doesn’t make sense to raise them as news.

Exactly this.

This is almost a daily occurrence. The news this time is that government used the J-Alert system to mass broadcast to everyone in Hokkaido to announce that, instead of coming down …

10 years ago. I’m in Japan and I go to the nearest convenience store, transfer the pdf document to the printer and get a clean print. I only use the printer for two pages a month t…

I suspect that some readers of Hacker News were not born when this was popular.

I live in Japan and the one thing I miss about the UK are Marks & Spencer’s sandwiches. If I never had a convenience store sandwich again I wouldn’t be sorry.

Err.. no. It is generally considered unwise to consider boring sea tunnels along the boundaries of tectonic plates in the Ring of Fire especially considering the distance from Taip…

The ScanSnap is a business quality scanner.You can put in a stack of documents into the sheet-feeder and you will get high quality scans out as fast as a printer.The smartphone sca…

This is all in Japanese but if you watch it you can understand what they are doing. The walls were starting to get dangerous so they decided to take the whole castle wall down and …

Yes. I love it.

I have always wondered whether new ideas are seeded by cosmic rays disturbing neurons in the brain..

Serious inquiry: does anyone use the word "temblor" outside of journalism?

I used to manage address data in a insurance company in Tokyo. We had about 20% of all Japanese addresses in the database. It was a challenging job. Parsing the new addresses, norm…

Genius name. I wish I had grabbed that domain.