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This is not correct. Sushi menus for restaurants in Tokyo use a mixture of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.

I've been living in Japan for over 5 years. > Japan has a serious problem with lack of sound proofing in most of the buildings you'll come across In older or cheaper buildings this…

3rd party packages are already a problem because a github repo shouldn't be treated as a dependency source. Gomod solves some problems but still uses git repos as the source. The p…

I don't agree. The ruby community had a recent love affair with dsl. Taking a peak at rspec library source made my eyes bleed. There's also a huge preference for "magic" even outsi…

This isn't accurate. It is more like: Customer: I want a table with four legs. Dev: Ok, give me 2 days and it is done. after 2 days Here's your particle board table about 1 meter o…

I'm not so sure what you're defining is completely different. Doing things the "right way" in Japan and other east asian cultures has more or less the same effect as trying to be "…

> Google’s adoption of gradle has been a disaster and proved to be a terrible decision. It did help out with some previous issues, namely multiple app targets, but it’s slowed down…

If they were replacing the connector with a royalty free standard connector, then I'd be with you. But the reality is this is a proprietary connector play and if they win we'll all…

> Putting that problem aside for a moment, it says that transit gets a smaller share of the funding pie. So what? Roads blanket the nation--I don't think this article would suggest…

Spanish speakers love to tout the simplicity of pronunciation but I'd argue conjugation and gender are just as complicated because they add additional memorization and dimension in…

The first one: > If people's hopes of coding bug-free code in Python 2 actually panned out Python2 developers wanted to write bug-free code . code = for the purpose of processing t…

This is mainly second-hand information. I haven't worked at a Japanese company, the closest I've gotten was interviews and a sort of off the record job offer. I have lived in the c…

Free parking is kind of mislabeled. The correct term is minimum parking requirements. Most build standards now enforce having a minimum amount of parking for any new building or ho…

> Even Tokyo has most of it's trains above ground. See Yamanote line with 29 stations versus the 16 cumulative underground stations that both the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transi…

For someone well versed in typography, his monospace font Triplicate is absolutely terrible looking to me. The t's, f's, and a's all look oddly slanted and upset the balance.

Japan is incredibly stubborn and ignorant when it comes to addressing core social and psychological problems in their society. It isn't even recognized by most of the population so…

Good. I've been waiting for a non-SMS and non-iMessage way of communicating. Americans shouldn't be tied to cell phone plans or the Apple vertical monopoly in order to communicate.…

On carmax a 2005 Corolla with over 100k miles still sells for over $9000. General car advice is the minimum you should spend on a used car is at least $5000. And that's if you're r…

Let me counter your argument as an American living in Japan (though not working). > Not because their job is inherently more noble than the lowly paid ones In Japan engineers are t…

I've been living in Japan and access across the pond is a bit flaky at times. Most of the time I can blame my local service provider (a sharehouse) for their piece of shit router, …

I'm living in Japan at the moment (language student) and it is certainly different here compared to the west. For example in Silicon Valley it is acceptable to pretty much give up …

What's good about windows: * Explorer is better than Finder. * Right click that works * Start menu + Win7 taskbar is better than OSX Dock/Launchpad (can't comment on Win8 metro but…

I would say that the average Japanese is more worldly not because of their own insight but more because of the rigidity of the culture and the import/export of American/European (W…

There's a solution to this problem... I got it! I'll rent a room and put a bunch of giant TVs on the walls so it's even better than home. You'll be able to watch 5 or more games al…

And maybe one day the we'll actually write the numbers on our coins so they can be friendlier to visitors...